Episode 30: Books with Hype + What Friends and Family Pressed Into Our Hands
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee and Meredith are back in your earbuds with a whole cartload of book recommendations!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: bear with us this week as we gush at each other about getting to meet in person for the first time.
Next, we discuss our current reads. We have some reads that surprised us this week, and we hope they surprise you, too, in all the best ways.
Our deep dive this week centers on the Currently Reading Challenge for 2019 and we are discussing the books that our friends and family members have pressed into our hands.
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. A children's classic and a funny romantic comedy.
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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4:38 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
8:30 - The Child by Fiona Barton
8:38 - The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
9:15 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Burton
12:33 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
12:40 - Secrets of Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
14:02 - 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die by James Mustich
17:58 - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
18:02 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
22:04 - Cozy Minimalist Home by Myquillin Smith
26:52 - On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
26:57 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
30:01 - Currently Reading Challenge 2019!
31:33 - The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
31:42 - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
31:55 - The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
32:14 - Dreamland by Sam Quinones
32:23 - Dopesick by Beth Macy
33:18 - The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
33:30 - Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
33:54 - Soul of America by Jon Meacham
34:06 - Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
34:18 - 100 Diagrams That Changed the World by Scott Christiansen
34:33 - Testable Asic Devices by Wayne Needham
34:56 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman
35:04 - White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
35:08 - The White Book by Han Kang
35:24 - For Every Solution, A Problem by Kristin Gier
36:05 - A Gift From the Sea by Ann Morrow Lindburgh
36:19 - West With The Night by Beryl Markham
37:20 - Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
37:33 - Yes, Please by Amy Poelher
37:34 - Bossypants by Tina Fey
39:11 - House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
41:09 - The Ordinary Princess by MM Kay
44:49 - Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty McDonald
47:55 - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
49:22 - The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion
49:28 - The Rosie Result by Graeme Simsion
49:50 - The Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. |
| 0:19.0 | And you might as well just listen to this podcast in the car because you're going to want to |
| 0:22.8 | head straight to your independent bookstore we're going to give you so many ideas for |
| 0:26.2 | good books this episode. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz a mom of four and full-time |
| 0:30.8 | CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area and I'm thinking the only good thing about weeks of rain is plenty of time to read. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for, aged 8 and under, living living in New Mexico and I read because it spurs some of my favorite conversations. |
| 0:47.0 | This is episode number 30 and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:50.0 | Meredith I missed you last week. |
| 0:52.0 | I missed you last week too. |
| 0:54.0 | I know you had a great time talking books with Anna. |
| 0:56.0 | She is a fantastic reader. |
| 0:59.0 | You guys had a great conversation. |
| 1:01.0 | We did. |
| 1:02.0 | I was really happy to get to talk to Anna and I think she had some great |
| 1:05.1 | tips for us and I'm really excited that you are back and today I'm also very |
| 1:10.0 | excited because we're going to talk about the friends and family press into your |
| 1:14.6 | hands segment of our book challenge for the year. So that has been really fun to |
| 1:19.3 | get prepared for that and talk to some of my favorite reader friends and family members. |
| 1:23.9 | What about you? |
| 1:24.9 | That's been really, really fun. |
| 1:26.2 | I have to say, finding out the different books that people are like, I really, really |
| 1:30.8 | wish that you would read this. |
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