Episode 41: Murderous Mysteries + Our Bookish Mentors
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee are excited to be chatting this week about all things bookish and books!
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: an fun online printable for summer reading and a new Etsy store find.
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We've got some great mysteries for you Penny pushers, and some other fun fiction for you and your kids.
For our deep dive this week, we are chatting about our reading mentors: the women (and a few men) who shaped our reading lives and what they taught us about books and reading.
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This weeks's "presses" are a classic perfect for spring/summer reading and a non-fiction pick that every woman should read.
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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2:30 - @everydayreading on Instagram
2:56 - Summer Reading Chart from Everyday Reading
4:04 - Summer Reading Guide from Everyday Reading
4:29 - Keen Bee Studio on Etsy
5:31 - The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
5:37 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
8:16 - No Man's Nightingale by Ruth Rundell
8:37 - Three Pines Series by Louise Penny
8:44 - Books by Agatha Christie
8:51 - From Doon With Death by Ruth Rundell
12:46 - Wishes and Wellingtons by Julie Berry
14:16 - Aladdin from The Arabian Nights (classic collection) - this is the best-reviewed version I found!
15:39 - The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
19:41 - Six Stories by Matt Weselowski
19:48 - The Currently Reading 2019 Reading Challenge
25:49 - The Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton
25:58 - E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton
41:04 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
43:40 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
44:18 - Minisode with Brigid Kemmerer
44:25 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
44:48 - The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
45:13 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
*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 read recently, and we're known to have strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time |
| 0:24.8 | CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I love to read even when life keeps me from |
| 0:30.8 | reading as much as I'd like. And I'm Katie Kopp, a homeschooling mama four, aged 8 and under, |
| 0:36.0 | living in New Mexico, and I think summer afternoons are the perfect time for reading. |
| 0:41.0 | This is episode number 41, and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:45.4 | Summer afternoons are the perfect time to enjoy some reading. Yeah it's a |
| 0:50.2 | bummer that you haven't been able to clock in on that so much lately. |
| 0:53.2 | I have not. I have had a very, very busy week at my day job. Here comes the guide, which has been a great week, |
| 0:59.2 | but it has kept me from being able to read in my normal way, which happens. My life ebbs and flows and sometimes |
| 1:06.3 | work definitely needs to take priority, but I do have a couple good books to talk about today, |
| 1:10.6 | and I know you've got some good books to talk about today. |
| 1:13.0 | So let's get our bookish moments of the week in first though, but before we do that, I want to just |
| 1:19.5 | mention right at the top of the show. |
| 1:21.2 | Our many deep dive today is going to be Katie and I talking |
| 1:24.6 | about people in our life who we consider to be our reading mentors those people who |
| 1:30.0 | really shaped our lives as readers. |
| 1:33.0 | And I'm excited to talk about that, |
| 1:35.1 | because there's no question that I have a few people |
| 1:37.1 | in my life that fall into that category in a major way. |
| 1:40.4 | Me too. |
| 1:41.0 | And I think that some of them are even podcast listeners, so I think they'll be excited to hear themselves mentioned. |
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