Episode 42: Audiobooks for your Summer Road Trip + The Reading Life of Guest Host Heather Chollar
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee has a special guest co-host joining her this week, and I can't wait to share her with you. You've heard me mention "my Heather" many times on the podcast, and today she's recording with me to bring you a very special episode.
Continuing Important announcement: 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 trip to a favorite indie bookstore and library cards for very excited kiddos.
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. Heather prepared like a boss and brings you a perfect audiobook listen no matter who you are road tripping with this summer. Kaytee has some non-fiction and a (perhaps overly?) hyped sequel to discuss.
For our deep dive this week, I'm talking to Heather about her reading life, including some of the things that you listeners have been wondering about our (M&K's reading life) in relation to motherhood, and finding time to read with kids around.
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. We've got a children's classic that should be read by readers of every age and a memoir that will make you cry and laugh so hard you may pee yourself.
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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2:05 - Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, CO
4:40 - The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Mary Rose Wood
7:28 - The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
7:33 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
10:44 - Everybody Always by Bob Goff
12:38 - Love Does by Bob Goff
13:17 - Just Open the Door by Jen Schmidt
13:30 - May 21st Episode of Sorta Awesome with Heather Chollar talking about Introverted Hospitality
13:53 - The Turquoise Table by Kristin Schmidt
13:55 - The Art of Neighboring by Dave Runyon and Jay Pathak
16:24 - Circe by Madeline Miller
16:32 - Meredith discusses in Episode 10 at 44:08
19:06 - @howjessreads on Instagram
19:13 - Get Well Soon by Jennifer Wright
20:18 - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
22:24 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
25:04 - Heather's display bookshelf
29:27 - Gift From the Sea by Ann Morrow Lindburgh
31:00 - The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
32:05 - Audiobook narration of The Phantom Tollbooth by Raine Wilson
34:02 - Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
34:14 - Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
34:55 - momastery.com
36:53 - @heatherchollar on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. |
| 0:18.0 | And as you know, we have some big opinions, so be ready. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, aged 8 and under, living in New Mexico, and I pretty much always read whatever my Heather tells me to read. Today, I'm joined by that Heather. Heather Coller, You may know her as my Heather if you've been an |
| 0:35.1 | O.G. listener because I've mentioned her many times on the podcast. She's an Air Force wife |
| 0:40.3 | and a mom of three living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And she's one of the |
| 0:44.4 | wisest women I know. I call her my resource Sherpa. She's also a book whisper |
| 0:49.5 | of the highest order. This is episode number 42 and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.0 | Heather, welcome to currently reading. |
| 0:57.0 | Thanks, Katie. I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm so excited to have you. You have been so supportive of this whole venture since the day that |
| 1:05.2 | Meredith and I first started talking about it. And I mean, you kind of play into our origin story as well. |
| 1:13.0 | Everyone's Small will go on other podcasts |
| 1:15.0 | and we'll talk about how we got started. |
| 1:16.0 | But really if you go even farther back in the storyline, |
| 1:20.0 | you and I were driving together to Cape one day |
| 1:22.0 | and you told me about the podcast sort of awesome. |
| 1:24.6 | And that's how I first started listening to a podcast and that's how I first heard Meredith's voice the first time and that's how we first connected so if you go further back in my timeline |
| 1:35.8 | you're you're the root of my podcast story. That's so awesome |
| 1:41.6 | It's it's ridiculous. |
| 1:43.5 | We're so excited to have you. |
| 1:44.8 | I know that our listeners are going to be excited to hear from you. |
| 1:47.8 | And we're going to get started the way that we always do, |
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