Episode 35: So many interesting novels + how we decide which books to keep and which books to donate
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee return to their microphones (albeit, one is in a different location than normal) to talk all things reading and great books.
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: choosing road trip audiobooks and a new Little Free Library update!
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week: there's no rhyme or reason to our picks this week but almost all of them are wonderful. Which is my favorite thing.
For our deep dive this week, we chat about books we buy and books we borrow and books we keep. How do we decide which books deserve a place on the physical TBR shelf (rather than the library hold list)? How do we decide which ones to let go of (and where to put them) when we've read them?
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 are a great beach read option and a lovely autobiography.
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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7:02 - A River In Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa
10:57 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
12:41 - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
13:12 - A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
17:20 - Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu
21:48 - Mainline Candle Company
22:09 - Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
24:33 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
25:19 - Tilly and The Book Wanderers (Pages & Co., #1) by Anna James
26:19 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
31:56 - Louise Penny series
31:58 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
32:02 - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
38:24 - Scribd membership - try it for 60 days for free
38:41 - Thriftbooks website - 15% off your first order
40:30 - Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
41:49 - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
42:24 - Lizzy and Jane by Katherine Reay
42:26 - The Austen Escape by Katherine Reay
42:27 - The Bronte Plot by Katherine Reay
43:11 - Episode 2 of Currently Reading
43:32 - Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are two bookish best friends |
| 0:15.4 | who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and we are |
| 0:19.6 | going to have some spicy opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four |
| 0:25.2 | and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area, |
| 0:28.6 | and I am never happier than when I'm surrounded by readers. And I'm Katie Com, a homeschooling mom of four |
| 0:35.0 | aged 8 and under, living in New Mexico, |
| 0:37.0 | and I read because my mom and my dad read to me. |
| 0:41.0 | This is episode number 35, and we are so glad that you're here. |
| 0:45.9 | Awesome. Okay. Yes, you were raised by good readers. I was raised by good readers and it's |
| 0:52.1 | especially on my mind this week because we actually I took my show on the road my half of our show on the road |
| 0:58.0 | So I'm sitting in my childhood bedroom this week and if I sound a little different that's probably why. |
| 1:03.0 | I love that you're in the actual room that you grow up in. |
| 1:06.4 | That's so that's so nice. |
| 1:09.2 | It's pretty fun. |
| 1:10.2 | All right so before we get into our bookish moments of the week, |
| 1:12.5 | I just want to tell everybody that we are going to be doing |
| 1:15.3 | a short deep dive this week, and we're going to be talking about how Katie and I |
| 1:18.9 | decide kind of which books that we want to actually purchase |
| 1:22.4 | versus ones that we get from the library |
| 1:24.8 | and different ways that we deal with the books once we do read them. So that's going to be our |
| 1:29.3 | many deep dive coming later in the show but first let's start the show the way we always do |
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