Episode 44: Bookish Serendipity + the Debut of a New Segment: "Belly Up to the Book Bar"
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds this week to chat about all sorts of bookish goodness!
Continuing Important announcement: we have a great discount code to share with you from The Bookshelf Thomasville! For a few final days (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 book devouring, and validating your summer reading choices
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We're all over the place in genre, age range, and opinions this week, so get out those library cards!
For our deep dive this week, we are teasing our new segment for Season 2! Belly Up to the Book Bar will b in our regular rotation next season, and we cannot wait to share it with you, listeners! Thanks to Megan Goodell for being our guinea pig "test customer".
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This week's pick include some historical fiction about the Spanish flu and a murder mystery from a master.
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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2:28 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
3:10 - Minisode with Brigid Kemmerer
6:31 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
9:36 - The Girl in Red by Christina Henry
9:54 - Currently Reading 2019 Reading Challenge
9:59 - Six Stories by Matt Weselowski
12:06 - Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
12:20 - Episode 16 of Sarah's Bookshelves Live
12:22 - Episode 189 of Sorta Awesome
15:12 - The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dion
16:53 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
18:05 - Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge
18:09 - Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry, and Tobias Iaconis
20:39 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
22:53 - Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink
24:39 - What Should I Read Next episode 186 about bookish serendipity
25:32 - The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
25:39 - The Giver by Lois Lowry
28:07 - A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
29:58 - The Penderwicks by Jennie Birdsall
Belly Up to the Book Bar! - Megan Goodell
33:51 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
34:25 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
35:36 - Prey by Michael Crichton
36:04 - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
36:20 - The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
36:27 - Circe by Madeline Miller
37:02 - The Physician by Noah Gordon
37:28 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
37:35 - Beartown by Fredrick Backman
37:36 - Us Against You by Fredrick Backman
38:26 - Class Mom by Laurie Gelman
38:49 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
38:59 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse
39:10 - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
39:43 - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
39:49 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
39:55 - Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
40:10 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer
40:19 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
40:27 - Christina Henry fairytale retellings - Lost Boy, Alice, Red Queen, Girl in Red
40:43 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
40:53 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
41:17 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
41:25 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
41:46 - The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
41:56 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
If you want to Belly Up to the Book Bar, send us an email: currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com
44:04 - As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
46:31 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
46:40 - The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
48:58 - The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes) by Anthony Horowitz
*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 we are full to the brim with strong opinions, so get ready. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of |
| 0:24.8 | four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area and I love to read in the |
| 0:29.7 | summer more than almost any other season of the year. |
| 0:34.1 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling Mama 4 aged 8 and under, living in New Mexico, and I may or may not |
| 0:40.4 | be above bribing someone to let me read. This is episode number 44 and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:46.0 | Ooh, that's a good one. Did you have to bribe someone? |
| 0:49.0 | Man, I can't wait to tell you about my bookish moment. |
| 0:51.0 | Actually, you already know because I've've harassed you about it all week. |
| 0:54.3 | But first, why don't you tell me about yours? |
| 0:57.0 | Well, let's tell people right up here at the front |
| 1:01.2 | that we're gonna do a deep dive today that we are super excited about doing because |
| 1:05.8 | we are getting ready to wrap up season one of currently reading and we're getting making big plans for season two and in season two we are going to be |
| 1:15.4 | introducing a new segment and that is called we're super excited about it it's |
| 1:21.3 | called belly up to the book bar. |
| 1:23.3 | Katie, do you want to tell us a little bit about what this segment is going to be about? |
| 1:26.7 | Oh my gosh, you guys. Okay, so Meredith named this segment, but I am so excited about it. |
| 1:30.8 | So picture you're at your favorite club, bar, whatever, or maybe you're old |
| 1:36.4 | like me and you're just at your favorite friend's house. Because you don't go to the |
| 1:39.8 | clubs of bars. Exactly. So you walk up to the bar and you're like, honestly, I don't know what I want. |
| 1:46.0 | Here's some things I've enjoyed in the past. |
| 1:49.0 | Moscow Mule, a coffee latte with soy milk whatever it is and the bartender or the barista |
| 1:56.0 | whoever it is is there to help you make a good decision so this is the book bar |
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