Episode 39: Spicy Opinions + Best Gifts for Bookworms
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee are happily chatting this week about the books we've been reading and the bookish gifts we have been buying or want to buy!
Important announcement this week: we have a great discount code to share with you from The Bookshelf Thomasville! Now through June 30th, you can get anything on their website for 10% off using the code CURRENTLYREADING (wow!!!) This would be a great time to pick up a Shelf Subscription for yourself or others!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a "there's a book for every reader" realization and a well-curated bookish shopping trip.
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. There are some seriously strong opinions about the books we've been reading lately. Lots of punching, for some reason!
For our deep dive this week, we are shopping for the book lovers in our lives and have each decided to tackle different types of readers. We are hopeful that this will help you in your own gift-giving endeavors!
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This week we are talking about a YA novel full of sweetness and fun emails, and a regency mystery series that ended too soon.
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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3:12 - Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
3:25 - Orange is the New Black Cookbook by Jenji Kohan
4:22 - Breakfast Sandwich Maker Cookbook by Jennifer Williams
6:53 - Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
7:05 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
7:08 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
7:09 - Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
9:09 - Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
11:17 - The Path Between Us by Suzanne Stabile
11:24 - The Enneagram Journey podcast with Suzanne Stabile
11:29 - The Road Back to You by Suzanne Stabile and Ian Morgan Cron
13:27 - The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick
15:51 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
15:58 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
15:59 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
16:07 - The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
18:05 - Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
21:06 - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
21:43 - The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
25:58 - The Coffee- or Tea-Lover
26:17 - Old Barrell Tea Company
26:25 - Atlas Coffee Club
26:26 - Book Lovers Coffee
26:34 - inginuiTEA loose leaf tea maker
26:36 - French press coffee maker
27:08 - a great bookish mug
27:22 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
27:25 - I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh
28:05 - The Cozy/Hygge Bookworm
28:50 - Aunt Dimity Series
28:53 - Agatha Raisin Series
28:55 - Goldy Bear series
28:59 - Ellery Adams books
29:10 - Agatha Christie books
29:18 - a great throw
29:19 - a lovely candle
29:33 - The Foodie
29:46 - a cookbook holder (for books OR cookbooks!)
30:26 - my favorite earbuds -OR- Apple AirPods
30:47 - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
31:08 - Every Day is Saturday by Sarah Copeland
32:15 - A Dad
32:26 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
32:32 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
32:44 - Dollar Shave Club starter kit
32:57 - his favorite beverage
33:23 - The Adventurer
33:33 - a Kindle paperwhite
33:57 - a great totebag (one from Out of Print and the new one from Book of the Month)
34:20 - again with the earbuds or AirPods
34:32 - Audible subscription
34:33 - Libro.fm subscription
35:01 - At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider
35:09 - I'm A Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
35:11 - Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
35:35 - The Lovestruck Teenage Girl
35:42 - To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
35:48 - bath bombs from Lush Cosmetics
36:14 - The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
36:34 - a notebook from Erin Condren
37:10 - The Book Devourer
37:40 - shirts, blankets or scarves from Out of Print or Litographs.com
38:09 - a gift card to Thriftbooks.com or your local indie or amazon.com
38:19 - a subscription to Book of the Month
38:25 - a shelf subscription to Bookshelf Thomasville (use code CURRENTLYREADING for 10% off!)
38:35 - Bibliophile by Jane Mount
39:07 - The Hamilton Fan
39:19 - Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
39:29 - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
39:42 - My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray
39:45 - The Hamilton Affair by Elizabeth Cobbs
39:57 - the Hamilton Broadway store
41:06 - A Million Books I Haven't Read t-shirt
41:51 - Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
43:16 - What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum
44:21 - Cut to the Quick by Kate Ross (the Julian Kestrel series)
*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 | Hey 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 sometimes we don't love the books that everyone else loves, so get ready. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, |
| 0:26.1 | and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 0:29.6 | And one of my favorite parts of reading |
| 0:31.4 | is having books pressed into my hands by good friends. |
| 0:35.6 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama 4 aged 8 and under, living in New Mexico, and I feel |
| 0:40.9 | incomplete when my reading slows down. |
| 0:43.2 | This is episode number 39 and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:46.8 | All right yes when life gets in our way |
| 0:50.4 | and reading can't be in our you know what we do in our normal routine it can start to |
| 0:56.5 | feel really strange mhm definitely and this was a big week for me as you know the |
| 1:01.7 | move up to you santa f Fe it's been a little crazy but |
| 1:06.3 | I'm excited that we're finally recording almost a week late. |
| 1:10.3 | Right but we got it we're gonna do it we're to keep up our same regular schedule. No one will ever know, Katie. |
| 1:16.0 | Shh, it's a secret. It's a secret, right? |
| 1:19.0 | Okay, so just a couple of things before we dive in, I want to let everyone know that our deep dive today is kind of related to Katie's birthday, which is coming up. |
| 1:29.0 | We both were thinking about gifts that we love to receive as readers and also the ones that we like to give as readers |
| 1:36.8 | or to our bookish friends. |
| 1:38.0 | So we came up with several different kind of bookish-related gift packages that we would give to different kinds of bookworms, maybe bookworms that read a lot or people were trying to turn into bookworms. |
| 1:49.0 | So that's going to be coming up. That's our deep dive later in the show. |
| 1:52.0 | And then I also, I'm super excited because up that's our deep dive later in the show. |
| 1:52.6 | And then I also, I'm super excited because you guys know that I'm a huge fan. |
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