Episode 46: Books That Listeners Press Into Your Hands!
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee and Meredith are so excited to be sharing YOUR presses with our listeners this week! We asked for you to call us or email us with your books you want to press, and you certainly delivered!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host: a realization about the true status of hoarding tendencies, and a book that immediately led to dinner time yumminess.
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We've got 6 (or more) books that someone will want to read ASAP, so get those library cards ready!
For our deep dive, we are sampling 10 of our favorite "listener presses" for our Reading Challenge! If you sent us a press that didn't make it into the episode, it was just because we didn't have time. We loved hearing from all of you! You'll hear our thoughts on each of these books as well, because, you know we have them!
As always, we finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to press into every reader's hands. This week we've got a title that's perfect for the extreme heat of mid-summer, and a press that comes with a caveat.
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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3:17 - A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Gamache #7)
Life hack: Pasta, asparagus, pine nuts, and goat cheese. Fantastic dinner.
4:47 - The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz
4:56 - The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
7:18 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
7:27 - The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
8:13 - YA Alex Rider series (starts with Stormbreaker) by Anthony Horowitz
9:04 - The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
11:52 - All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
15:32 - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
16:34 - YouTube Interview with Eoin Colfer
19:13 - Sweep by Jonathan Auxier
19:24 - Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier
20:11 - Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
25:29 - Mary in Episode 36
25:34 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
29:17 - The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory
31:48 - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
35:06 - Unbroken - a World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
35:14 - Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
37:14 - Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
40:14 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
40:50 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
43:57 - First Person Plural by Cameron West
46:07 - The Friend by Dorothy Koomson
46:15 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
47:49 - How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery
49:51 - The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
51:25 - Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang
53:54 - Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell
54:05 - I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
56:00 - The Heirs by Susan Reiger
57:41 - Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
59:25 - The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
*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, |
| 0:19.0 | and you've been listening to us for an entire season now so you know we have strong opinions and |
| 0:24.7 | I know you're ready for that. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area, |
| 0:32.3 | and I read because it's my favorite way to relax during a vacation. |
| 0:35.5 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama 4 aged 8 and under living in New Mexico and I love reading books almost as much as I love recommending books to others. |
| 0:45.0 | This is episode number 46 and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:48.0 | Meredith. |
| 0:49.0 | Today we're doing something fun. |
| 0:50.0 | We are gathering together all those listener presses that we got from all our people on |
| 0:55.7 | Instagram and through email and through your voicemail and we get to hear from them for our currently |
| 1:02.1 | reading challenge. |
| 1:02.8 | Are you excited? |
| 1:04.3 | I am very excited. |
| 1:05.6 | I was surprised by how many people responded. |
| 1:08.8 | There were so many good presses. |
| 1:10.7 | It was really hard for us to choose the ones that we actually |
| 1:14.4 | wanted to include on the show. You know, obviously we had to make some choices |
| 1:17.7 | or we would have been here forever, but I do think a lot of these presses are |
| 1:21.2 | ones that we could over the course of the next season. |
| 1:24.0 | I think we could probably do another compilation and include some more of these. |
| 1:27.8 | So yes, thank you, listeners. |
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