Episode 25: When Your Books Tell You You're Wrong (But You're Listening) - A Special Interview with Beth and Sarah from Pantsuit Politics
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee have to try to keep themselves under control this week as we have a bit of a longer deep dive segment. It's hard, listeners, to reign in the book talk, especially after a week away!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of the hosts: ditching a time-suck that was preventing reading, and a new bookish website.
Next, we discuss our current reads. Since we had to limit ourselves, these four titles are all AMAZING. We dare you to not get excited about at least half of them, no matter what your wheelhouse is!
Our deep dive this week includes and extra special interview with the ladies from Pantsuit Politics, Beth and Sarah. Whether you're already a fan, or these are new voices in your ears, you're guaranteed to learn something. I (Kaytee) did, and have been a raving fangirl for more than two years. It's unbelievable to me that I even got to talk to them!
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands: a non-fiction pick from Sarah if you want to broaden your political reading, a poetic choice from Beth for sanity in turbulent times, and one from each of your regular hosts (a sweet picture book and a creepy true crime novel). That's a lot of pressed books!
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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4:00 -myTBR.co - Tailored Book Recommendations from Book Riot
7:10 - Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
10:24 - The Hunger by Alma Katsu
10:46 - The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
13:54 - Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce
17:48 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
18:00 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
20:08 - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
20:12 - A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
22:40 - I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening) by Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland
45:59 - The Righteous Mind: Why People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
47:05 - Hallelujah Anyway by Anne Lamott
48:30 - The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
49:00 - Pantsuit Politics Podcast and Website
Pantsuit Politics on Twitter
Pantsuit Politics on Instagram
50:28 - Stellaluna by Jannell Cannon
52:31 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (set in Washington state)
53:07 - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
*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 |
| 0:14.4 | who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and as you |
| 0:18.8 | know we do not shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, |
| 0:25.9 | and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area, |
| 0:29.0 | and I have to be honest, I read to keep myself sane. |
| 0:33.0 | And I'm Katie Com, a homeschooling mama for with a cold. |
| 0:37.0 | And they are all ate and under, living in New Mexico. |
| 0:40.0 | And I read even more now that I uninstalled Facebook from my phone. |
| 0:45.0 | Dun-dun-dun. Oh wow. This is episode number 25 and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:50.0 | Did you really un-install Facebook? |
| 0:53.0 | Well, so this is kind of my bookish moment. |
| 0:55.0 | You want me to talk about an hour? |
| 0:56.0 | You want me to go straight and go back. |
| 0:58.0 | All right, bookish moment. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm out of the week. |
| 1:00.0 | So about a week ago I realized I was getting really cranky with my kids like a mean mommy and I felt like I was using Facebook as a crutch like just don't talk to me just leave me alone and I'm not PMessing I'm still nursing so it's not that like |
| 1:16.8 | hormone shift but man I was just cranky with them all the time and felt like I was spending an inordinate amount of time |
| 1:24.7 | on Facebook and not reading. I was feeling really slumpy like I just I don't want to |
| 1:29.5 | pick anything up nobody cares about what's happening right now. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm like, I'm not going to throw a pity party on the podcast. |
| 1:35.2 | This is my favorite part of the day. |
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