Episode 2 - Book Metaphors and Page-Turning Novels

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Kaytee and Meredith are back in your earbuds for more bookish chat.

You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us – something readerly in our lives that we want to highlight, and a few of the books we've finished reading lately. Meredith's famous (infamous?) book metaphors make their first podcast appearance in this episode. Broccoli, anyone?

Next, we do a mini-deep-dive into some of the best audiobooks to get you started if you're new to the medium, and then we move onto what's up next on the TBR pile.

We finish up with two books that are real page-turners, perfect for end of summer beach reading.

Time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!

1:37 – The Reading Bug Box

4:11 – Rainbow shelf pictures

8:30 – The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

9:20 – Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

10:49 – Vox by Christina Dalcher

13:46 – The Book of Essie by Megan MacLean Weir

15:25 – Scribd membership

15:40 – Gretchen Rubin!

16:00 – Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

18:49 – Rabbit, the Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams

20:04 – Look for Me by Lisa Gardner

21:10 – Meredith's awesome food book metaphor

22:35 – Thirteen Story Treehouse (series) by Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Terry Denton, read by Stig Wemyss

24:01 – Small Great Things by Jodi Piccoult, read by Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell, and Ari Fliakos

25:52 – Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, with a full cast

28:55 – Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, narrated by the author

30:50 – As You Wish by Cary Elwes, narrated by the author, and his Princess Bride friends!

32:32 – Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

32:58 – The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

33:00 – Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

33:38 – The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel

34:34 – An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

34:42 - The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

34:52 – Little Broken Things by Nicole Baart

34:56 – The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

35:23 – Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber

36:32 – Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

37:37 – Sphere by Michael Crichton

37:39 – The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

38:38 – 11/22/63 by Stephen King

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the currently reading podcast. We're two bookish best friends who spend time
0:16.2	every week talking about the books that we've read recently and you should know
0:20.0	we will not shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. I'm Meredith
0:25.0	Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area
0:29.9	and I've basically been wanting to be left alone with a book since age four.
0:35.0	And I'm Kavy Cobb, a homeschooling mama for, aged eight and under, living in New Mexico,
0:41.0	and I read in order to not lose my mind with all these kids running around.
0:46.1	This is episode number two, and we are so glad that you're here.
0:49.7	How you doing this week, Meredith?
0:51.0	I am very good, and as as always super excited to talk books.
0:55.5	Excellent I cannot wait to hear the way that we love to start which is with your
1:00.5	bookish moment of the week so why don't you tell me about it?
1:03.0	Okay excellent this isn't necessarily a moment it's more one of my favorite bookish
1:09.7	things and I was thinking about it a lot this week. So I have several subscriptions to book boxes, right, or Book of the Month,
1:20.3	right? Right, you know, those kinds of things.
1:22.3	And some of them are real hits, some of them are real misses,
1:25.0	and there's one that has absolutely risen above all of the others,
1:29.0	and weirdly, it's not for me, it's for my son Jackson who's seven. Yeah and so this subscription is
1:36.9	called the reading bug box and what I love about it is it's a box,
1:44.0	it's not just one book, it's always, it comes once a month.
1:47.2	We started out with a summer subscription
1:49.3	just because I thought, oh, it'll be an extra way
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