Episode 27: Left Turns, Challenge Wins + Bookish Pet Peeves
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee and Meredith are so excited to get back into our discussion this week that we have a hard time keeping our bookish opinions to ourselves.
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of the hosts: meeting a book resolution and a happy abundance of book mail.
Next, we discuss our current reads. We have some very seriously large opinions about our books this week. If you've ever wondered what it's like for Meredith to get spicy, you're in luck!
This episode was recorded on Valentine's Day, so… since we had love on the brain, we took a left turn and went with a deep dive on things we "hate" about books!
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) - but this week is a couple of great series - that we'd like to press into every reader's hands: these books have been mentioned over and over again on the podcast, but due to some heinous oversight, we haven't ever pressed them into your hands!
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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2:33 - Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
3:24 - Sourdough by Robin Sloan
5:32 - The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
5:33 - Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
6:48 - Still Life by Louise Penny
10:05 - Currently Reading Challenge
10:18 - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
13:35 - I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
14:05 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
18:36 - Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
21:59 - Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
22:02 - Circe by Madeline Miller
22:08 - He Read She Read episode 20
25:53 - Iliad by Homer
26:23 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
26:29 - Episode 24 with Mary Heim
28:59 - The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
43:28 - The Impossible Crime (Mac B., Kid Spy #2) by Mac Barnett
50:36 - Harry Potter series
50:56 - Louise Penny series
52:02 - The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
*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 who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and get your library card ready because we are going to load up your hold list today. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, |
| 0:25.5 | a mom of four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I'm happiest when I'm in the |
| 0:30.8 | middle of a book that I do not want to put down. |
| 0:33.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama 4, aged 8 and under, living in New Mexico, |
| 0:38.0 | and I read because there are some things I'll never get to experience except through a book. This is episode |
| 0:44.2 | number 27 and we are so glad you're here. Hey Katie you know what? Hey what? |
| 0:50.6 | Last episode? Yeah. Was our six-month podcast anniversary. |
| 0:56.0 | That is so fun. I'm so excited about it and I feel like we have really gotten to like connect with our listeners and we're just we're really |
| 1:04.6 | happy that we get to do this every week you guys and we love you. Oh my gosh it's so |
| 1:09.3 | much more fun than even I thought it was going to be and I thought it was going to be a lot of fun |
| 1:14.5 | Right because we said we just wanted to do this mostly for us because we thought we were gonna have a good time with it but getting to interact with the listeners and getting to like hear people's feedback and having people be excited and then I don't think |
| 1:28.1 | I really understood how much fun I was going to have talking to you every single week. |
| 1:32.4 | Right. |
| 1:32.5 | No, that's true. |
| 1:33.4 | That's a piece of it that I don't think. |
| 1:36.0 | Well, we didn't know each other as well back then. |
| 1:39.7 | And we haven't even heard each other's voices |
| 1:41.2 | for like until, you know know right before we recorded our first |
| 1:44.8 | episode so I know and yet we were bookish best friends so that's amazing. |
| 1:48.6 | Books and social media will make strange bedfellas so no that it is good that it worked out and |
| 1:54.8 | do you remember we were we were going to be happy if just ten people listen to each episode |
| 1:58.4 | so true and it was totally true yes and as soon as we had like 10 people download the first one we were |
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