Episode 22: The Joy of the Re-Read + Guest Co-Host Morgan Tallman
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Meredith is on a leadership retreat this week, so Kaytee is joined by her friend Morgan Tallman to chat books this week.
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host: busting out of a reading slump (and some tips), and a bookish resolution from a young family member.
Next, we discuss what we are currently reading, and this week includes some fantasy, a funny thriller (is that a thing?), and a few non-fiction picks.
This week's deep dive is a conversation with Morgan about re-reading. Since Meredith and Kaytee rarely re-read, we are chatting with someone who really loves to re-read books about what she gets from those re-reads. Morgan talks about the books she loves re-reading as well as the frequency of her re-reads.
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands: a book to add depth to your Harry Potter love, and a sweeping historical novel with trigger warnings.
As per usual, 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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3:04 - Endling: The Last by Katherine Applegate
3:09 - The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
3:49 - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
3:58 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
6:48 - My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
9:13 - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
10:12 - Stardust by Neil Gaiman
10:13 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
10:29 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
10:31 - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
11:24 - The Eternal Current by Aaron Niequist
13:44 - Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
15:02 - By the Book Podcast
16:32 - Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
17:33 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
20:43 - Harry Potter Series
22:26 - Morgan counted up last year's re-reads for me and found that she had had 55 re-reads of the 232 books she read in 2018 (including 3 re-reads of the Harry Potter series).
23:38 - Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
23:44 - Books by Brene Brown
23:51 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
24:26 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
24:32 - Louise Penny Inspector Gamache Series
28:43 - Snape: A Definitive Reading by Lorrie Kim
34:48 - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
34:59 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We're two bookish best friends who |
| 0:14.2 | spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and you should |
| 0:17.7 | know we won't shy away from having strong opinions. So be ready. I'm Katie |
| 0:22.2 | Cobb a homeschooling mama four aged 8 and under living in New Mexico, and I read to find new friends inside and outside my books. |
| 0:30.0 | Meredith is on her annual leadership retreat this week. |
| 0:33.5 | I promise you'd be jealous if you knew the details. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm so excited to get to introduce you to our guest host this week. |
| 0:40.0 | My friend Morgan Tallman is here. |
| 0:42.0 | She is a full-time graduate student studying clinical psychology, |
| 0:45.9 | and she's an avid bookworm finishing 232 books last year. |
| 0:50.1 | Whoa! She lives in Illinois with her boyfriend and family and is an admin for the book club on Facebook which is how we met. This is episode number 22 and we are so glad you're here. |
| 1:00.0 | Morgan, welcome to the show. Thanks Katie, I'm so glad to be here. Morgan, welcome to the show. |
| 1:03.0 | Thanks, Katie. I'm so glad to be here. |
| 1:05.0 | It's been so fun to get this started and to have you kind of in our corner |
| 1:08.8 | this entire time as we rolled out currently reading. |
| 1:11.7 | You were one of our first listeners you've been like |
| 1:13.7 | behind us the whole way through and it's been great to have you kind of on our team yeah |
| 1:18.3 | it's been so good to be here and you've been mentioned or listening to the broadcasts yeah and you've been mentioned many times. |
| 1:25.0 | So lots of our listeners already know your name |
| 1:27.1 | because we're always talking about our friend Morgan. |
| 1:29.4 | So this is our friend Morgan. |
| 1:31.0 | Here you are. All right, so we're going to go ahead and get started the way that we always do, which is with our bookish moment of the week. |
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