Episode 18: Books Perfect for Wintertime Reading
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee and Meredith are deep in the holiday season and we're ready to talk about all the books!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a bookish moment of connection with a new friend and a book ornament for the tree.
Next, we tackle what we are currently reading, with plenty of kid lit in this week's selections as well as some cozy reads and some creepy ones.
This week's deep dive is about winter reads and the titles we like to cozy up with during the holidays.
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands: a new (old) mystery series to sink your teeth into, and a travel memoir.
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 - Cowboy Pug by Laura James
2:31 - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
5:38 - my pretty bookstack ornament (no longer available for me to link to on the Anthropologie site!)
7:17 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
7:49 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
10:28 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
11:35 - Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny
12:26 - The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib
16:07 - Mac Undercover (Mac B., Kid Spy #1) by Mac Barnett
16:17 - Reading Bug subscription box
17:51 - The Impossible Crime (Mac B., Kid Spy #2) by Mac Barnett
20:02 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
20:04 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
20:24 - Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
20:30 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman
22:32 - Toll by Neal Shusterman (not even on Amazon yet, so no link!)
24:26 - Night of Miracles by Elizabeth Berg
24:36 - The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
27:27 - Shogun by James Clavell
28:02 - Pax by Sara Pennypacker
31:58 - The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
32:47 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson
33:59 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
34:18 - Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
34:26 - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
34:48 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
35:18 - Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling
35:24 - Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkein
35:31 - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
35:33 - Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
36:05 - The Shining by Stephen King
36:25 - It by Stephen King
36:26 - The Stand by Stephen King
36:38 - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Auden
36:41 - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Auden
37:10 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
37:40 - Agatha Christie
37:41 - PD James
37:42 - Minette Walters
37:52 - Aunt Dimity Series
38:15 - Anne Perry Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels
38:31 - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
38:59 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
40:23 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
40:25 - All the Books podcast
41:46 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
43:09 - A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
43:22 - Louise Penny Inspector Gamache series
45:12 - Robert Galbraith series (JK Rowling syndrome)
45:58 - At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider
47:59 - Simple: A Podcast by Tsh Oxenreider
48:35 - Interview with Tsh on Kaytee's blog
*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. We are two bookish best friends |
| 0:14.6 | who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and as you |
| 0:18.9 | should know we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four |
| 0:26.0 | and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area, |
| 0:29.4 | and I love reading during the Christmas holidays. |
| 0:33.0 | And I'm Katie Kopp, a homeschooling mama 4 |
| 0:35.4 | aged 8 and under living in New Mexico, |
| 0:37.9 | and I read instead of packing for vacation sometimes. |
| 0:41.2 | This is episode number 18, and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:44.1 | You do not procrastinate Katie that would not be like you. That is so me. Like the kids are in |
| 0:50.3 | the room right now packing their stuff for a big vacation we're going to |
| 0:54.0 | San Diego they don't know that we're going to Legoland and SeaWorld and they're |
| 0:57.5 | just gonna lose their minds oh my gosh but I can't like tell them what we're |
| 1:00.8 | doing so I'm like no the place we're going is not super cold |
| 1:05.2 | Whatever I'm just gonna go read my books. I don't you guys figure it out |
| 1:08.9 | I think this is gonna bite me in the pet later. We'll see. |
| 1:12.8 | Do you know what I've done over the course of the last two days |
| 1:15.3 | that I never thought I would do? |
| 1:18.3 | You read the fourth JK Rolling, no, Robert Galbraith's book. |
| 1:23.0 | No, that's definitely not what I've done. |
| 1:25.6 | No, I have read a book to Jackson and start to finish. |
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