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The Currently Reading Podcast

Season 2, Episode 15: A Time-Travel Novel We Both Love + Reading (and Recommending) Outside Our Comfort Zones

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds this week for another new episode of Currently Reading and we have lots of fun stuff to share with you!

First, a quick announcement about our Patron-only book club: we will be discussing The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain, and the author will be joining us to chat about her book on November 17th! So, if you've been on the fence about reading or joining our Patreon, now may be the time to do it!

Second, we have a Currently Reading Listener Survey for you this week. Please click through to the survey and tell us your thoughts about all things Currently Reading!

You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: a local author event and pre-reading a book for a friend.

Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We're each sharing two reads this week since Belly Up episodes end up running long. Strong opinions abound in our novels this week!

We'll move on to a short Slow But Steady update from each of us, including a "completed!" update.

For our deep dive this week, we are discussing the Currently Reading 2019 Challenge category 11: Books Pressed by an IRL or Online Book Club. We already shared a lot of Book Club thoughts in episode 4 of season 2, so this ends up being an ode to finding your bookish tribe.

Finally, this week, we are Bellying Up to the Book Bar with DeeAnn Haworth. This was a bit of a challenge for one of us, but we're excited to talk about some new to you and to us titles!

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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1:15 - The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain

1:40 - Patreon

1:53 - Currently Reading Listener Survey

2:51 - Garcia Street Books in Santa Fe, NM

3:23 - The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

3:33 - Minisode with J. Ryan Stradal

5:22 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

5:45 - The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

7:14 - The Dearly Beloved by Cara Walls

7:20 - Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

7:40 - Knox McCoy on The Popcast

7:43 - Shelf Subscription on Bookshelf Thomasville

14:06 - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

19:50 - The Swallows by Lisa Lutz

20:05 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

20:07 - The Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

25:29 - Currently Reading on Patreon

25:46 - The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain

31:59 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

33:15 - The Road Back to You by Suzanne Stabile and Ian Morgan Cron

33:56 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

34:50 - Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

36:30 - Currently Reading 2019 Reading Challenge

36:47 - Episode 4 of Season 2

38:00 - Meredith on Episode 85 (I said 89, but that was a mistake!) of Sorta Awesome Podcast

42:13 - bookish.com

43:43 - Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series

43:46 - JA Jance's Joanna Brady and JP Beaumont series

43:54 - Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

43:57 - Saving Ceecee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

44:00 - Richard Paul Evans' The Walk series and The Broken Road series

44:05 - An Eldery Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

44:10 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

44:12 - Elevation by Stephen King

44:15 - Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy

44:19 - When by Victoria Laurie

45:55 - Sue Grafton's Alphabet Series

46:42 - Mickey Haller/Lincoln Lawyer series by Michael Connelly

46:56 - When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman

47:22 - Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series

47:59 - In Her Bones by Kate Moretti

48:37 - Joshilyn Jackson's The Almost Sisters and A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

48:50 - Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

49:21 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

49:46 - Rabbit, the Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams

50:20 - Aunti Poldi series by Mario Giordano

50:45 - Celine by Peter Heller

50:49 - The River by Peter Heller

51:39 - Setting Free the Kites by Alex George

51:42 - Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen

51:56 - Little Lovely Things by Maureen Joyce Connelly

52:40 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth

53:12 - Thinner by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman

54:16 - The Grown-Up by Gillian Flynn

54:45 - McNally's Secret by Lawrence Sanders

56:20 - Listener Survey - one more time!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently.

0:19.0

And as you know, we will not shy away from having strong opinions especially this week so get ready.

0:25.0

Ooh, we're light on the chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always

0:30.1

be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, aish deep dive and this week we are bellying up to the book bar

0:36.3

I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin Texas

0:41.5

And it's weeks like these when I'm really glad I get to talk about books with Katie.

0:46.0

And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico,

0:50.0

and meeting authors is probably my favorite book adjacent hobby.

0:54.0

This is episode number 15 of season 2 and we're so glad you're here.

0:58.0

All right, do you want to go right into your bookish moment of the week?

1:01.0

Because I'm dying to hear about what has got to be your bookish moment of the week because I'm dying to hear about what has got to be your

1:04.0

bookish moment of the week. Am I right? It is. It is my bookish moment of the week, but I have two

1:07.2

quick announcements before we get there and I want to make sure we plug them right at the top of the show. First is our patron only book club that we're so excited

1:14.0

about with Diane Chamberlain who will be joining us when we talk to our patrons

1:19.6

that day and I am just so thrilled that she's going to spend 15 to 20 minutes answering questions,

1:24.7

letting us gush at her a little bit, and then we're going to kick her off and we're going to say,

1:29.4

what's the rest of your opinions? Right. But I'm just so thrilled that she agreed to talk with us

1:34.8

and that she's excited to be there with us.

1:36.6

So that is happening on November 17th.

1:39.0

If you're not a patron and you've read the dreamdaughter,

1:41.6

or if you haven't, and you want to binge it, now's the perfect time.

1:45.2

Five bucks gets you in for that chat and we're so excited to get to hang out with her.

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