Episode 12 - Choosing Your Next TBR
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Episode 12 comes to you this week. And we're here to talk TBR. The specifics of what drives us to choose the next book off the stack!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a group of online readers that saves the day and all about audiobook "stories."
Next, we tackle what we are currently reading: some Capital W-Weird picks, some non-fiction, some YA. We've got a little taste of everything.
We take a mini-deep dive this week into the topic of TBR lists. How do readers in general choose what is To Be Read next? How do we, specifically, choose what to slot into that coveted position?
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This week we have a perfect Christmas gift idea (and some wonderful accompaniments) as well as a beloved curmudgeon book for almost every reader on your list.
Time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!
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3:17 - Audiobook stories on Instagram: click on the Audiobooks Q&A highlight!
6:05 - The Book of Boy by Katherine Gilbert Murdock
8:52 - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
9:50 - Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians by Brian Sanderson
14:03 - Episode 9 with Meg Teitz
14:32 - Our favorite free Enneagram test: https://exploreyourtype.com/details
15:08 - The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stablile
15:25 - Typeology podcast
15:35 - The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher Heuertz
17:20 - From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon
17:25 - When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
20:32 - The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
20:47 - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
20:50 - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
23:15 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
29:37 - Vox by Christina Dalcher
32:46 - I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
34:24 - You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero
36:55 - Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
39:06 - A beautiful mug to pair it with
39:10 - The coziest of cozy wraps from Athleta
40:47 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
42:50 - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
42:52 - The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
42:57 - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
44:09 - A Man Called Ove movie
45:09 - Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrick Backman
*Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently, |
| 0:18.0 | and you should know we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. I'm Meredith Monday |
| 0:24.6 | Schwartz a mama for and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area and |
| 0:29.2 | reading keeps me sane. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, aged eight and under, |
| 0:36.0 | and you'll hear my little is co-host today with me. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm living in New Mexico and I read, so that my kids leave me alone sometimes. This is episode number 12 and we're so |
| 0:45.8 | glad you're here. All right we do have an extra co-host today. We do. My little |
| 0:51.6 | Anilie who will be four months on Monday. |
| 0:54.4 | She doesn't want to take a nap right now. |
| 0:56.2 | So she's sitting in the bouncy chair next to me |
| 0:57.9 | and you guys might hear her chiming in every once a while because she has |
| 1:00.4 | big opinions about books too. |
| 1:02.2 | Exactly. She's a woman with books too. Exactly. |
| 1:03.2 | She's a woman with thoughts and we need to hear them. |
| 1:05.7 | All right, good. |
| 1:06.4 | I love that. |
| 1:07.4 | She fits right in. |
| 1:08.4 | Right. |
| 1:09.4 | Listeners, Analee being my co-host isn't the only thing that's different in this episode. |
| 1:13.5 | You'll also hear my audio get weird a few times. |
| 1:16.1 | We're aware of it, your headphones aren't failing, and thanks for bearing with us. |
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