Episode 16: Riveting reads + how the holidays change our reading habits
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week we're talking brand new titles, some oldies but goodies and a few bookish surprises.
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a brand new release finally in hand, and a bookish Christmas tradition.
Next, we tackle what we are currently reading, a few brand new releases as well as a bunch of goodness from the back list.
This week we spend some time discussing how our reading habits change during the holidays, both in amount and substance.
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands: a rich-family inheritance drama, and a time-travel-esque (no actual time travel involved) book that surprised me.
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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1:30 - Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
3:53 - The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
4:10 - Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Barry
5:04 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
5:55 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
9:45 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
9:58 - Episode 14 with Amy Allen Clark
11:19 - Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
12:18 - Who Thought This Was A Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco
15:09 - A Curious Beginning by Deanna Reybourne
15:19 - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
15:21 - The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
18:10 - Crimes Against a Book Club by Kathy Cooperman
20:42 - Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
20:49 - Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
22:39 - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
23:28 - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
25:27 - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
26:13 - Jenny Colgan books
27:52 - Shogun by James Clavell
28:39 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
28:43 - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (again!)
30:21 - The Heirs by Susan Rieger
30:38 - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
33:58 - How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
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Transcript
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| 0:14.8 | Hey readers! Welcome to the Currently Reading podcast. We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and you should know we |
| 0:19.2 | will not shy away from having big opinions so get ready. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz a |
| 0:24.5 | mama four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area and reading in |
| 0:29.2 | the rain is my favorite. And I'm Katie Cobb a homeschooling mama 4 aged 8 and under, living in New Mexico, |
| 0:36.1 | and I read when I'm still trying to pull myself out of a turkey coma. This is episode |
| 0:40.9 | number 16, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:43.0 | Is your turkey coma still a real thing? |
| 0:46.0 | It feels like it is. I don't know. |
| 0:48.0 | I think we've also been a little bit sick around here. |
| 0:50.0 | So, yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | Maybe it's just tiredness from that, but I feel like I'm just turgied out. |
| 0:55.0 | Right, and so we're recording and it's just a couple of days after. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, no, it's a week, it's a week after. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm gonna admit that. I shouldn't be turkey commode anymore but I did make turkey soup last night so. Oh, you did. Yeah, more turkey. All right. Okay. Okay, so let's I know we're both excited about all the books that we want to talk about. |
| 1:14.5 | So let's, let's jump into it. |
| 1:16.5 | Yes, why don't you start us out by telling us about your bookish moment of the week? |
| 1:20.5 | I love my bookish moment of the new |
| 1:23.0 | new wees's gonna bet you a bazillion dollars you know what it is |
| 1:26.3 | I'm not okay now I'm not gonna make you make that but the new Louise Penny |
| 1:30.8 | oh yes of course I know what out. Oh my goodness. |
| 1:35.0 | And here's the thing. |
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