Episode 5: Big Book Opinions: Novels to Tear Your Heart Out or Scare the Pee Pee Out of You
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds for a show that required us to put up our dukes to fight with technology in more ways than one. Give us grace on the audio foibles this week, and blame Skype, m'kay?
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: happy podcast vibes and bookish t-shirts.
We dive in to discussing 3 books each. Two we really enjoyed and one… not so much. Watch out for those strong opinions in this segment this week!
Then we spend a little time talking about Anne Bogel's new book, I'd Rather Be Reading, and the pieces that resonated with both of us!
You'll also hear our first non-sponsor sponsor segment. Obviously we're a bit unclear what "sponsorship" means at this point!
We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to put into every reader's hands, and this week's picks will either tear out your heart or scare the pee-waddle out of you (Meredith's phrasing. LOL).
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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2:38 - Meredith's Book Nerd t-shirt
from outofprint.com, purveyors of so many fun, bookish tees
4:15 - Little Broken Things by Nicole Baart
4:42 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
7:47 - Mom Advice Book Club on Facebook
8:19 - Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
9:35 - Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
11:30 - The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Sequel to The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
12:13 - Wonder by R.J. Palacio
13:53 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
16:01 - The Gospel Comes with a House Key by Rosaria Butterfield
18:56 - The Art of Neighboring by Jay Pathak and Dave Runyon
19:01 - Turquoise Table by Kristin Schell
19:06 - Just Open the Door by Jen Schmidt
21:05 - The Gatekeepers: How White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple
23:17 - Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
23:55 - I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
27:59 - The Bookshelf, Thomasville, Georgia
28:43 - Shelf Subscription
29:35 - From the Front Porch podcast
29:54 - @bookshelftville bookstagram account
31:29 - Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
33:32 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
*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 back to another episode of the Currently Reading Podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | We are two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.8 | read recently, and you should know we're going to have big opinions. |
| 0:21.8 | So be ready. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and |
| 0:25.7 | full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and talking books is my jam. |
| 0:30.5 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom for a state and under. We live in New Mexico and I read in order to not lose my mind. This is episode number five and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:42.0 | We are so glad to be here finally. Katie are you ready to talk about our bookish moments of the week? |
| 0:48.7 | Oh goodness I am so ready. It's been a big week. It has been a big week. I am going to get us started. Is that good with you? Yes, go for it. |
| 0:56.8 | All right. So we are, this is like on a Thursday we always record on Thursdays and our episodes |
| 1:02.9 | release on Mondays so three days ago we just got to drop our very first three |
| 1:08.3 | episodes and we have just had the best three days so this week our bookish moment or my bookish moment is super |
| 1:15.2 | special because it's like our bookish moment for both of us. I have just loved every second |
| 1:20.4 | of getting texts and Facebook messages and Instagram messages from people who have been listening, |
| 1:25.9 | who have said, you know, I never read and I'm excited to read right now because of the way you guys are talking about these |
| 1:31.0 | books or I can't believe my friend is on a |
| 1:32.9 | podcast this is so fun or whatever it is just having these in real life friends |
| 1:37.8 | come up to me and be excited about what we're doing and the great feedback we've gotten has just all week long just |
| 1:44.7 | put this huge smile on my face makes me cry like little tiny happy tears and I just |
| 1:49.7 | get I'm just so excited about it It's so fun and so bookish. |
| 1:54.6 | It has been really, really fun. |
| 1:57.3 | I have been overwhelmed with the response that we've gotten, |
| 2:00.3 | with the number of downloads that we've gotten, with how many people who don't read all the time have said you might |
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