Episode 37: Books That Surprised Us + Where to Get Great Recs from Librarians, Booksellers and Podcasters
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers, my audio is a little messy this week. |
| 0:03.4 | You'll hear it in a second. |
| 0:04.5 | We didn't realize it until after we had finished recording, but sometimes that's what happens. |
| 0:09.1 | So give us some grace this week and I promise we'll be back to normal next week. Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | We are two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read |
| 0:32.1 | recently and we do not shy away |
| 0:34.2 | from having strong opinions so get ready. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz a mom of |
| 0:38.8 | four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of my favorite parts of reading |
| 0:44.5 | is being totally surprised by a book. |
| 0:47.0 | Ooh and I'm Katie Combe a homeschooling mom of four aged eight and under living in New Mexico and I read to stay grounded in the chaos |
| 0:56.7 | This is episode number 37 and we are so glad you're here |
| 1:00.8 | Were you interested in my what I said being surprised by a book? I have a |
| 1:04.8 | couple books this week to talk about that that surprised me and I really love that. I love |
| 1:08.9 | it when I go into it thinking one thing. Yeah. All right before we get started on those though and before we even get started on our bookish |
| 1:15.3 | moments of the week, we want to talk about just a couple of things. |
| 1:18.8 | Our many deep dive today, later in the show, is going to be about one of our currently reading |
| 1:24.8 | reading challenge categories which is books that are pressed into your hands |
| 1:29.4 | by a librarian, bookseller, or podcaster. |
| 1:33.2 | So we're going to give you some recommendations |
| 1:35.4 | for places to get those kinds of really good book presses. |
| 1:39.7 | And then Katie, you wanted to talk a little bit |
| 1:41.5 | about something else we have coming up that we really are excited about, but we need our listeners help with. |
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