Episode 75: “I can read my own stories. I don’t need this weird teddy bear doing it.”
Choose your own 2020 coping mechanism with custom adventures, awesome audiobooks, or terrifying Teddies. This episode is all about interactive and immersive reading.
Links To Give You Life:
Bring some freshness to your summer days with Washington Cherries and Tangerine Grapefruit Sparkling Water
“Choose Your Own Adventure” to escape your real life with throwback books from CYOA, the “Sweet Valley High” series, and “Give Yourself Goosebumps”
Raise the stakes with these interactive Netflix shows: “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend”
Level up your audiobook game with high-production fiction books and reading along with nonfiction audio on Scribd
Get your Shakespeare on with theatrical audio performances to get in the zone
Terrify your children and yourself with the return of Teddy Ruxpin
Add “This is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone to your TBR for a time-traveler epistolary love story that will keep you guessing every chapter
From memoirs and personality quizzes to erotica and zombie apocalypse adventures, here are “20 'Choose Your Own Adventure Books' For Grown-Ups”
Thanks for listening, and remember to send in all your obsessions, suggestions, and questions to currentlyobsessedclub@gmail.com. Stay obsessed!
Episode Guide: (03:04) D’s obsession with Washington Cherries (07:26) C’s obsession with Tangerine Grapefruit Sparkling Water (12:02) C talks “Choose Your Own Adventure” books (18:57) D talks CYOA Netflix shows “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend” (20:17) C + D talk audiobooks and read-alongs (29:35) C talks Teddy Ruxpin (33:31) C + D talk buddy-reading “This is How You Lose the Time War” (42:00) C talks “20 'Choose Your Own Adventure Books' For Grown-Ups”
