Episode 29: Choosing Great Library Books + Special Guest Co-Host Anna Hithersay
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee is recording with a special guest co-host this week, Anna Hithersay of The Post Party podcast. Anna is a homeschool mom and was a librarian in a former life, so I think you'll love our deep dive into choosing great books for your kids (and yourself) at the library.
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of the us: a bookish tattoo and a raising readers moment.
Next, we discuss our current reads. This week has some thriller, some fairy tale, some romance, some middle grade. Basically, we took quite a few left turns.
Our deep dive this week is a conversation with Anna about choosing quality books from the library when the selection is so overwhelming. We also talk about "twaddle" and authors that are sure bets.
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. A sweeping story of the South and a tiny classic that's sweet and lovely.
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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2:03 - Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
3:25 - My new Bookish Tattoo!
4:43 - 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
4:50 - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
8:37 - Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
8:44 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
11:15 - Wild by Cheryl Strayed
12:10 - A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
12:29 - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
15:31 - The Winter Sister by Megan Collins
15:38 - Book Of the Month
18:56 - White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
20:55 - OnRamp Podcast
25:04 - Lost Boy by Christina Henry
25:12 - Morgan Tallman episode 22
28:26 - Alice by Christina Henry
28:29 - Red Queen by Christina Henry
28:56 - Peter Pan by JM Barrie
31:57 - Barbara Cooney books
35:38 - Magic Treehouse books by Mary Pope Osborne
37:30 - Eric Carle books
37:36 - Sandra Boynton books
38:22 - Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton
38:51 - Richard Scarry books
39:48 - First Thousand Words in English by Heather Amery
39:49 - First Thousand Words in Spanish by Heather Amery
40:08 - Magic Treehouse books by Mary Pope Osborne
40:28 - The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Hayes
41:48 - In The Town All Year 'Round by Rotraut Susanne Berner
43:21 - The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
43:24 - Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
43:32 - Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
43:34 - Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
44:37 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
45:49 - Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
47:01 - Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
48:00 - Parnassus Books
48:31 - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My 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 as you know we have some big opinions so be ready. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four aged 8 and under living in |
| 0:25.0 | New Mexico and I read to maintain my sanity when my babies are little. |
| 0:28.6 | Meredith is out and about this week so I'm introducing you to another guest host. |
| 0:33.0 | Anna Hithersay is a homeschooling mom of three living in Dallas. |
| 0:36.5 | She's an avid reader and a podcaster on the post-party podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | As you can imagine we have a lot in common. She was also a librarian before |
| 0:46.0 | staying home with her kiddos. This is episode number 29 and we are so glad you're |
| 0:50.3 | here. Anna, welcome to currently reading. Thank you Katie. I am so |
| 0:54.6 | excited. I love this podcast so much and so yeah and yeah it's just so fun to be |
| 1:01.0 | on so thank you for having me. We're very glad to have you and I'm so fun to be on. So thank you for having me. |
| 1:02.5 | We're very glad to have you. |
| 1:03.8 | And I'm so excited to get to share |
| 1:06.1 | some of your mom librarian knowledge |
| 1:09.0 | with our listeners. |
| 1:10.0 | I know that they're gonna really be able to glean a lot from that part of our |
| 1:13.8 | podcast. So we're going to go ahead and get started the way that we always do, which is |
| 1:18.8 | with your bookish moment of the week. So tell us something bookish in your life this week. I had |
| 1:25.5 | several moments to choose from but I picked this one because it's just so sweet. I have |
| 1:32.0 | three kids like you said and my youngest is my daughter Maggie who is almost three and |
| 1:38.8 | After having two wild and crazy boys, she's just the most delightful little creature to have her out because she's so |
| 1:45.2 | like me and it's just yeah that's just delightful and one of the ways she's like me she loves books she loves |
| 1:51.2 | to read and she always has to have books with her in her |
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