Episode 7 - In which Jessica Turner is a Special Guest Co-host
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Meredith is on vacation, so Kaytee has a special guest co-host join her for this week's episode. She is so excited to share her conversation with Jessica Turner!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: one that only a family of two authors will ever experience and a new discovery at the library that made for a quiet weekend at home.
We dive in to discussing 2 books each. One of which we both cannot stop talking about.
Next, we get to discuss Jessica's new book, Stretched Too Thin, as well as her previous work, The Fringe Hours. Both are books you need on your shelves! Who wants to win a copy of STT? I'll be giving away a copy on Instagram this week, so pop on over there to enter!
We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to put into every reader's hands. Jessica does a great job pushing BOTH of our books into your hands this week, as I promise you'll want to pick up each of them for totally different reasons. They also kind of follow a theme (unintentionally, as 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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0:42 - Stretched Too Thin by Jessica Turner
1:51 - When God Made You by Matthew Paul Turner
1:52 - When God Made Light by Matthew Paul Turner
1:55 - When I Pray For You by Matthew Paul Turner
3:28 - Playaways at the library
4:09 - How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
4:11 - The Problim Children by Natalie Lloyd
6:22 - Modern Girls by Jennifer S. Brown
8:44 - The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
8:46 - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
8:53 - Maybe In Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
9:00 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
9:18 - Sliding Doors (movie)
10:04 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
10:48 - How to Walk Away by Katherine Center
11:12 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
11:38 - Lies by TM Logan
13:49 - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
15:15 - March: Book One by John Lewis
15:27 - Ghost by Jason Reynolds
15:51 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
18:18 - The Fringe Hours by Jessica Turner
19:57 - Stretched Too Thin by Jessica Turner
31:51 - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (yep, again)
35:18 - American Marriage by Tayari Jones
35:32 - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
36:11 - Documentary 13th by Ana DuVernay on Netflix
38:14 - Jessica's bookstagram account: booksnobbery
38:20 - TheMomCreative.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. |
| 0:17.5 | And you should know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four aged 8 and under living in New Mexico and I read whenever I have free hands or free ears. |
| 0:29.0 | You may notice that this intro sounds a little different and that's because I get to record with a guest |
| 0:33.7 | host this week. My bookish friend Jessica Turner is here to chat with me today. You may recognize |
| 0:38.9 | Jessica's name because I talked about her book stretched Thin, on the very first episode of this podcast. |
| 0:45.1 | We'll be chatting more about that book later, but for now I want you to know that |
| 0:48.5 | Jessica is a full-time working mom of three that lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and she's an amazing author. She runs the |
| 0:54.8 | website the Mon Creative.com and loves to read just as much as Meredith and I do. |
| 1:00.0 | This is episode number seven and we are so glad you're here. |
| 1:04.0 | Hi Jessica. |
| 1:05.0 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:06.0 | Hi. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm so excited to have you here. |
| 1:09.0 | I know I've been telling you that I've been fan-girling over you for years, |
| 1:12.0 | but it's really exciting |
| 1:13.4 | for me to get to talk to you in person. Well I'll be honest I felt a little |
| 1:17.2 | nervous preparing for this podcast because you are one of the most voracious |
| 1:22.0 | readers that I follow and I'm worried that what if my taste doesn't equate your taste so I'm glad to be here |
| 1:32.0 | So we're gonna get started the way we that we always do with your bookish moment of the week. |
| 1:36.8 | So what do you have for us? |
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