Episode 8 - On the Dreaded "Reading Slump" and Several Books to Help Get Your Groove Back
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds this week. Reunited!! We've got a bit of a longer episode for you full of readerly chat.
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a neighborly book relationship and bookish travels.
Plenty of book recommendations coming your way this week as we discuss three recent books each and go down little rabbit trails of additional titles.
Our deep dive this week is about reading slumps: why they suck so bad and some tips for avoiding them or overcoming them!
We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to put into every reader's hands. Some hilarious short stories and a classic mystery. This week also includes a bonus pick by Meredith's nephew Collin for the younger readers in your life.
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!
7:45 - The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
7:58 - Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
10:22 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
10:30 - Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
13:00 - Siblings without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
13:25 - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
13:30 - How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
15:51 - Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
17:24 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
20:12 - A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
21:40 - Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
25:36 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
27:13 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
28:00 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
28:42 - The Vanderbeeker's of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser
33:28 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
34:11 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
39:40 - Calypso by David Sedaris
40:39 - Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
41:13 - Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris
43:47 -Max: Best Friend. Hero. Marine. by Jennifer Li Shotz
43:53 - Hero by Jennifer Li Shotz
46:15 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome back to another episode of the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:20.5 | read recently, and you should know we're going to have big opinions |
| 0:24.2 | so get ready. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz a mom of four and full-time CEO living in |
| 0:30.0 | the San Francisco Bay Area and even in a reading slump books are still my jam. |
| 0:36.6 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four aged 8 and under living in New Mexico and I read because |
| 0:41.9 | it's my ultimate form of self-care. This is episode |
| 0:45.0 | number eight and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:47.0 | All right Katie I am so glad to be here as everyone knows who listened to last week's episode, I was on vacation |
| 0:56.8 | and you were so kind to do a fantastic interview with Jessica Turner. That episode was really, really good. |
| 1:05.0 | I had a great time talking to Jessica, |
| 1:06.9 | but I definitely missed you. |
| 1:08.0 | You're my reading buddy, so. |
| 1:10.5 | I have to say, I'm glad you're back. |
| 1:11.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:12.3 | I tamped down a little bit of jealousy |
| 1:14.7 | that you guys were doing such having so much fun together but she's really |
| 1:18.7 | fantastic and not only a great author which of course we know from her new book |
| 1:22.4 | stretched too thin but she's a real reader and she doesn't |
| 1:26.6 | shy away from having big opinions about her book so I loved that episode. |
| 1:30.5 | She totally does it was so fun to chat with her. |
| 1:33.0 | All right, so let's start off the way that we love to do and let's talk a little bit about our bookish moments of the week. |
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