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The Currently Reading Podcast

Episode 31: Book Talk with Special Guest Co-Host Laura Tremaine!

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Meredith and Kaytee are joined by a special guest co-host this week, Laura Tremaine. Laura is well-known across social media, and we think you'll love hearing from her.

You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a great book club chat, a new reading experience, and an unexpected bookish connection with a group of kids.

Next, we discuss our current reads. Since there are three of us, we kept it to two titles each, but they are two great book s from each host that are sure to have big opinions from the interwebs.

For our deep dive, we're talking to Laura about her "social media journey" and her vision behind her newest podcast, 10 Things to Tell You.

As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This week's picks include a non-fiction book about eating, a historical fiction family saga, and a thriller that will chill you.

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! 

5:52 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

8:03 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

8:20 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

8:49 - Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

15:17 - Little Lovely Things by Maureen Joyce Connolly

17:08 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips

18:00 - Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

21:01 - This Will Only Hurt A Little by Busy Philipps

21:15 - Rob Lowe's books

21:21 - Bossypants by Tina Fey

27:28 - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

28:35 - The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

31:31 - Juliet's School of Possibilities by Laura Vanderkam

34:00 - 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam

34:08 -Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam

35:40 - The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann

42:17 - Bias Series on the Smartest Person in the Room podcast

51:48 - Intuitive Eating by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Trebole

56:22 - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

59:02 - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

Laura's Website and Laura's Instagram

10 Things To Tell You podcast and Instagram

*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

Welcome to the Currently Reading podcast. We are two bookish best friends who spend time

0:15.0

every week talking about the books that we've read recently and you should know

0:18.8

we won't shy away from having strong opinions so be ready. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mama 4 and

0:25.2

full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I love talking about books with

0:30.1

smart women. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, aged 8 and under, living in New Mexico,

0:35.8

and I have a lot more than 10 things to say about my reading life.

0:39.4

Today we are so excited because we have a super special guest joining us.

0:44.1

We have Laura Tremaine.

0:46.1

Laura is a month to living in Los Angeles.

0:49.8

You may know her name from her blog, The Hollywood Housewife,

0:53.0

from her time on Sort of Awesome,

0:54.6

or from her two solo podcast ventures,

0:57.5

the smartest person in the room and her newest,

1:00.0

10 things to tell you.

1:01.7

She is a big reader with big opinions,

1:04.0

so you know she'll fit right in here with us.

1:06.1

As you already heard last week, we're both really big fan girls.

1:10.0

Laura, welcome to currently reading.

1:12.0

Thank you so much, ladies.

1:14.6

I'm so happy to be here.

1:16.2

We're going to ask you right now, Laura,

1:18.4

to not listen to the last five minutes

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