Episode 6: Backlist Gems and How DOES Kaytee Read So Darn Much?
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee and Meredith return this week to chat about books with you! How do you feel about the backlist? We're going there.
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: using books as a coping strategy and books that you've been meaning to read for more than decade…
We dive in to discussing 3 books each. These mostly take a trip down backlist lane, because only one is brand new and the rest are back in the catalog.
Next we get into every listener's most-asked question: a brief overview of how in the /world/ Kaytee reads SO much while homeschooling all those children.
We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to put into every reader's hands. We've got a book that will make your life better and a series that you have to push through the first book to get to the way better second and third books.
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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8:35 - Inspector Thanet Series by Dorothy Simpson
9:32 - Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
12:01 - Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
13:00 - All the Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison
13:14 - Setting Free the Kites by Alex George
13:18 - All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
16:47 - The Uninvited Guests by Said Jones
19:51 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
20:25 - Middlemarch by George Eliot
20:46 - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
23:08 - The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman
24:05 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
27:34 - All Things Good and Wonderful, nope, just kidding, it's All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
29:22 - Florida by Lauren Groff
29:36 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
30:42 - What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
36:52 - Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
36:55 - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
37:00 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
39:33 - Do Audiobooks Count?? For further reading: To Your Brain, Listening to a Book is Pretty Much the Same As Reading It
41:32 - Kindle Paperwhite love
44:47 - Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
45:36 - The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
48:39 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
49:04 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
49:08 - A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers welcome back to another episode of the Currently Reading Podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:18.4 | read recently. |
| 0:19.7 | And you should know we're going to have big opinions and possibly opinions you won't agree with so be ready. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mama four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area |
| 0:32.3 | and I have been using books as an escape since |
| 0:35.8 | age four. And I'm Katie Cobb a homeschooling mom of four aged eight and under living |
| 0:41.3 | in New Mexico and I read to keep my kids from driving me crazy. |
| 0:45.4 | This is episode number six and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:49.7 | All right so let's get started the way we always do which is with your bookish moment of the week. How about you start us out Meredith? |
| 0:57.6 | Okay, my bookish moment of the week really really this week I think more than any other week that we've done so far |
| 1:05.2 | speaks to how deeply books are enmeshed and reading is enmeshed in the |
| 1:12.3 | every single part of my life. |
| 1:14.4 | So Katie, you know this in this last week, |
| 1:17.1 | this last weekend, my husband had some pain on his right side |
| 1:21.6 | we were trying to figure out. |
| 1:22.4 | We ended up having to go to the ER. we ended up having to go to the ER we ended up having to go to the ER two nights in a row |
| 1:25.7 | Looks like he's going to be okay, but we didn't know for a while and there were a couple of ER visits that were seven hours plus each time in the middle of the night. |
| 1:36.0 | The reason I bring this up is a bookish moment is because as we were getting ready to go to the |
| 1:39.9 | ER, especially the first night, my husband was in excruciating pain and we were waiting for |
| 1:45.2 | our oldest son to get here to be able to take care of our youngest son. We had about |
| 1:48.6 | five minutes to get ready to go so I am rushing around like a crazy person trying to pack my bag with all the things that I might need for what I realize is going to be a lengthy period of time with long periods of waiting. |
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