Episode 17: Cozy Reads and Books to Blow Your Socks Off + An Interview with Delia Owens
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds this week with a broad array of books to tell you about!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a personalized book gift FOR a friend, and a kidlit audiobook addiction.
Next, we tackle what we are currently reading, some quick reads to hit your year-end goals, and a few books we cannot WAIT to talk to you about!
Our super special deep dive this week centers on an interview with Delia Owens, writer of Where the Crawdads Sing. This book has been chosen as a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, as well as (just announced the day after recording) picked up by 20th Century Fox as a feature film production. Delia is so gracious, so well-spoken, and so lovely. We know you'll love hearing from her.
As always, we ALL finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands: a nature collection from Delia, a cry-your-heart-out book, and a middle grade classic.
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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1:35 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
4:18 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
5:32 - Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
6:31 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
7:43 - Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
7:57 - Shogun by James Clavell
8:51 - Theft by Finding: Diaries by David Sedaris
10:51 - Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
16:06 - The One by John Marrs
19:59 - Some Writer! by Melissa Sweet
20:06 - Stuart Little by E.B. White
20:08 - Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
22:55 - Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
23:25 - Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug
24:11 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
27:51 - The Secret, Book, and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
30:15 - The Whispered Word by Ellery Adams
41:19 - The Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
43:45 - Instagram Giveaway! Go win one of two copies of Where The Crawdads Sing!
45:09 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
48:29 - Tuesdays At The Castle by Jessica Day George
*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 |
| 0:15.9 | talking about the books we've read recently. |
| 0:18.2 | And as you know, we do not shy away from having strong |
| 0:22.0 | and sometimes unpopular opinions so be ready. I'm |
| 0:25.9 | Meredith Monday Schwartz a mom of four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco |
| 0:30.6 | Bay Area and I love reading all year round but I think winter is my |
| 0:34.9 | favorite. And I'm Katie Cobb a homeschooling mama four aged eight and under living in |
| 0:39.4 | New Mexico and I read to quiet my mind even when I can't quiet my space. This is episode |
| 0:45.9 | number 17 and we are so glad you're here. All right that's a good one to quiet |
| 0:51.0 | your mind when you can't quiet your space. That's a |
| 0:52.9 | It's always noisy here Maranda. Yes. Always right. It's never ever ever quiet. Yeah. I've been |
| 0:58.0 | reading recently out in front of the fire in the evening so Johnny's out there |
| 1:02.2 | and he's usually watching a little |
| 1:03.5 | something on the TV and normally I do my evening reading kind of in another room |
| 1:06.7 | where it's silent but I'm really drawn to the fireplace so I'm getting a little bit |
| 1:12.0 | better at tuning out some noise which is actually really useful because I'd rather be in the same room reading with him |
| 1:16.9 | Totally yeah, I agree |
| 1:18.5 | So, okay, let's jump right into our bookish moments of the week. What have you got? |
| 1:24.0 | All right, so this bookish moment of the week, I actually messaged you about this earlier |
| 1:28.7 | this week and I know I'm not going to spoil it for one of our favorite listeners Mindy, but I got to read |
| 1:35.2 | Wonder Smith this week and I loved it and she could not get her hands on it at the |
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