Episode 95: “Are you going to get attacked because you’re not a mermaid?”
What better way to wrap up this year than by celebrating our favorite books? From feel-good fiction to controversial authors, C+D share their most obsession-worthy reads of 2020.
Links To Give You Life:
Paint big with Katie Small and realize that truly anyone can be an artist if you follow her simple—if a bit chaotic—instructions
Shop your ALDI Finds aisle for this powerful oil diffuser, the self-care home spa gadget you need to make it through the rest of 2020
Freshen up your TBR pile while supporting independent bookstores and shop “Our Favorite Reads of 2020” through Bookshop
“Sky in the Deep” by Adrienne Young
“The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” by Stephen King
“Daisy Jones & the Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett
“Love & Gelato” and more by Jenna Evans Welch
“Attachments” by Rainbow Rowell
“This Is How You Lose the Time War” Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
“The Lost Girls of Paris” by Pam Jenoff
“The Alice Network” by Kate Quinn
“Akin” by Emma Donoghue
“Before We Were Yours” and “The Book of Lost Friends” by Lisa Wingate
#AskReddit
For this week’s #AskReddit segment, C asks, “What’s your earliest childhood memory, and how accurate is it?” while D asks, “If someone says to you, ‘say a movie quote!’, what is the first one that comes to mind?”
Happy holidays from our nook-based family to yours, and we hope you have a safe and joy-filled Christmas (if you’re celebrating this year). If you have your own Christmas confessions, random obsessions, or #AskReddit responses to share, email them to currentlyobsessedclub@gmail.com. Hope you join us next week for our last “Currently Obsessed” episode of 2020. Stay obsessed!
Episode Guide: (00:00) Our lack of Christmas preparedness is showing (07:17) D’s obsession with painting with Katie Small (18:45) C’s obsession with her ALDI Finds oil diffuser (26:10) “That was this year? That feels like 5 years ago.” C+D share their first reads of 2020, “Sky in the Deep,” “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon,” and “Daisy Jones & the Six” (36:10) “Speaking of audiobooks with voices you would recognize…” C obsesses over “The Dutch House” (38:30) C+D share summer reads, “Love & Gelato” and “Attachments” (43:50) C+D share book club & buddy reads, “This Is How You Lose the Time War and astounding historical fiction (53:25) “Did you read any controversial books this year?” C+D talk about Jeanine Cummins and Becky Albertalli and the complexity of writing outside of your own identity (59:12) #AskReddit with memories and movie quotes
