Episode 9 - In Which Meg Tietz is a Special Guest Co-Host

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Meredith has a special guest go-host join her this week while Kaytee travels, Meg Tietz of the Sorta Awesome podcast!

When Meredith introduces Meg, you'll get to hear a bit of our backstory about how we (Meredith and Kaytee) became friends THROUGH Meg's podcast, and how we pay tribute to her in every show!

You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host: meeting a favorite author and new earbuds for audiobooks.

Plenty of book recommendations coming your way this week as Meg and Meredith discuss two recent books each and then jump into a deep dive!

Meg is a personality framework junkie, so she and Meredith take a foray into personality types and reading. Such an interesting discussion! Do you know your Enneagram type? Do you feel like it affects your reading life?

Meg and Meredith finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we'd like to put into every reader's hands. This week's picks include a National Book Award winner and an older title that will make you think for YEARS.

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!

1:15 - Sorta Awesome Podcast: Website, iTunes

2:36 - Sorta Awesome episode about anxiety and face shaving

4:17 - Meredith's guest episode on Sorta Awesome about Penelopes

4:45 - Rainbow Rowell

5:29 - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

8:32 - Apple airpods

9:14 - Kaytee's (similar but way less expensive) earbuds

11:41 - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

14:36 - In Her Bones by Kate Meretti

16:05 - Book Drop Subscription - So excited to offer our listeners a GREAT coupon code for this service! Use code CURRENTLYREADING for 20% a new subscription of any length. This code is good through 12/15, so it would make a great holiday gift idea!

17:25 - The Popcast on iTunes

17:39 - The Wondering Years by Knox McCoy

21:23 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

32:50 - The Home Maker by Dorothy Canfield

35:41 - Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield

35:49 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

37:09 - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

37:41 - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesamyn Ward

38:05 - Salvage the Bones by Jesamyn Ward

42:51 - The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

44:31 - The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

How to find Meg:

@sortaawesomemeg on Instagram

@sortaawesomeshow on Instagram

sortaawesomeshow.com

*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.
0:13.4	We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week
0:16.8	talking about the books that we've read recently,
0:19.2	and you should know we have strong opinions,
0:21.6	so get ready. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz a mom of four and
0:25.6	full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area and reading has been my source of
0:30.4	comfort since I was small. This is episode number nine and we're so glad you're here.
0:36.0	You might notice that this intro sounds a little bit different than usual. This week it's Katie's turn to do a little bit of traveling, so I have the honor of co-hosting
0:45.2	with a good friend of mine and someone I'm sure you all know. Meg Teats, the creator and
0:51.2	co-host of the Sorta-awsome podcast.
0:54.0	Meg, I cannot tell you how excited I am to be talking books with you.
0:58.0	Thank you for joining me.
0:59.0	I am so excited to be here and really very honored that you ask me. Books is something I don't talk
1:05.2	about enough and so I had so much fun getting ready to sit down and talk books with you today.
1:11.1	I'm excited. It is. It's my favorite time of the whole week I have to say.
1:14.0	Yeah okay so I'm sure that the vast majority of our audience knows all about sort of awesome but for the few
1:21.2	people who might not can you give us just a little bit about what you
1:24.8	guys do there? Sure, so Sort of Awesome is a weekly show for women. We call it a girlfriend chat show and every single Friday
1:35.8	Myself and then one of my regular co-host or a very awesome guest will come on and we just kind of talk about uncovering what is awesome in our everyday lives.
1:46.9	So every week we have an awesome of the week feature where somebody talks about what is awesome
1:51.4	in their life right now.
1:53.0	And then we cover all kinds of topics,
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