Season 2, Episode 14: Reading for Mental Health + Guest Host Lori Lynn Tucker
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee is recording with a guest host this week as Meredith is traveling, and I think you'll really enjoy hearing from her!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: an author event with a tiny sidekick, and a special bookish gift from a friend.
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. This week's choices have romance, non-fiction, and historical fiction novels!
We'll move on to a short Slow But Steady update from each of us, as well as a couple listener updates
For our deep dive this week, we are taking a peek at Lori Lynn's reading life, and the ways she uses reading to balance her mental health. It's a really interesting conversation about how reading looks different for each of us.
Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books Into Your Hands. We've both brought a non-fiction pick this week, and they are certain to spark conversations!
As per 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! *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!*
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2:10 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
3:01 - Episode 17 with Delia Owens interview!
3:28 - Glennon Doyle Meton (on tour for Love Warrior)
3:30 - Anthony Doerr (on tour for All the Light We Cannot See)
4:10 - A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer
4:54 - Currently Reading Bookish Friends on Patreon
6:11 - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
8:30 - Anna Hithersay on Episode 22
10:10 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
10:36 - The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
10:49 - The Happily Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
11:04 - Viral social media post about ExLax from Abby Jimenez
12:11 - The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
14:38 - The Wife, The Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon
17:56 - Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon
18:03 - Audiobook Sync program (not happening now, but you can sign up for the email list so you know when it comes around next summer)
18:34 - Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
19:48 - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
20:54 - The Parasol Protectorate (series) by Gail Carriager
21:51 - Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
22:13 - Mary Heim on episode 24 and episode 36
28:09 - Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
29:29 - Lunch Lady (series) by Jarrett Krosoczka
30:14 - Another Bookish Friend (Patron) Shout Out!
30:18 - Currently Reading 2019 Reading Challenge
30:54 - Anne of Avonlea by LM Montgomery
30:59 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
31:06 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
31:59 - The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor
32:39 - Book People in Austin, TX
33:41 - Harry Potter (series) by JK Rowling
34:00 - Middlemarch by George Eliot
34:21 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
34:51 - Serial Reader App
35:54 - The Post Party Podcast
43:59 - Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
44:55 - Jessie Bear books by Nancy White Carlstrom
45:13 - Little Bear books by Elsie Holmlund Minarik
45:36 - Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
45:55 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
48:18 - Jesus Feminist by Sarah Bessey
50:19 - Miracles and Other Reasonable Things by Sarah Bessey
51:09 - Being Mortal by Atul Gwande
51:12 - The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
52:32 - But That's Another Story podcast with Will Schwalbe
52:51 - What Should I Read Next podcast
54:16 - Connect with Lori Lynn: @lorilynn_tucker or @lorilynntucker_doula
54:25 - The Post Party Podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers. Welcome to the currently Reading Podcast. We are two bookish best friends who spend time |
| 0:16.2 | every week talking about the books that we've read recently. And you should know, we do not |
| 0:20.6 | shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. |
| 0:23.0 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free. |
| 0:28.0 | We're discussing our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and this week we are pressing books into your hands. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Katie Cobb a homeschooling mama four living in New Mexico and I love having guests at my |
| 0:39.8 | house but my reading life really suffers. Today I'm joined by Lori Lynn Tucker, an online |
| 0:46.1 | friend of mine and bookish kindred spirit. She's a mom of three, Doolah, entrepreneur, and |
| 0:51.9 | wannabe plant lady. Right now her favorite thing to do is |
| 0:55.0 | read, talk about reading and post on social media about reading. This is |
| 0:59.4 | episode number 14 of season 2 and we are so glad you're here. |
| 1:02.8 | Lori Lynn, welcome to currently reading. |
| 1:04.6 | Thank you, Katie. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:07.6 | I'm excited to be here with you and with your littlest nugget, Delta Lynn, who is joining us today, which totally brings me back to our original days of currently reading when Anilie was my little co-host. |
| 1:19.0 | Yes, you know, she's our little co-host on the post-party as well. |
| 1:24.0 | So yes absolutely and we'll get into that a little bit more later. |
| 1:28.5 | All right, so for our deep dive today, like I said, we are going to get into |
| 1:32.4 | Lori Lynn's reading life and |
| 1:33.7 | especially I'm really excited to talk to her about how she uses reading as a |
| 1:38.4 | sanity saver. So we are all I think a lot of us really identify with that part of Lori Lynn's reading life for sure |
| 1:46.4 | But first we're gonna get started the way we always do which is with your bookish moment of the week. What do you have for us Lori Lynn Lynn? So this is cheating a little bit, but since I'm a guest and not a regular one here, I think I can do that. |
| 1:58.2 | So this summer when Delta was four weeks old, she went to her first author event we got to see |
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