Season 2, Episode 17: The "Recovery Book" Strategy + A Deep Dive into True Crime
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee are back, chatting books and strong opinions with you!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each of us: leaning into the DNF (did not finish), and a recovery book as reading "Advil."
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We've got three books each to discuss, including some revisits of titles that have already been discussed.
Our Slow But Steady check in is short and sweet, just like you like it!
For our deep dive this week, we are talking True Crime. This is an unknown world for Kaytee so we're hearing from Meredith about what she loves about True Crime and her favorites in the genre.
Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books into Your Hands: a cry-fest book that not everyone will love, and a book for middle graders that one of us still needs to pick up!
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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5:20 - Sarah's Bookshelves Alcohol & Advil pairings!
6:42 - The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman
6:49 - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
9:41 - Be Fearless by Jean Case
12:53 - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
16:00 - The Need by Helen Phillips
16:05 - She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
16:11 - Episode 11 of Season 2 with Sara Hildreth
20:00 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow
24:26 - The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
24:39 - Book of the Month Subscription
24:56 - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
29:10 - The Road Back to You by Suzanne Stabile and Ian Morgan Cron
29:38 - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nahesi Coates
29:53 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
30:38 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
33:28 - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
35:46 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
37:38 - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
38:56 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse
39:27 - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
39:52 - Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
40:04 - Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder by Vincent Bugliosi
40:24 - Mindhunter by John Douglas
41:24 - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
43:02 - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
43:12 - Columbine by Dave Cullen
44:03 - Sadie by Courtney Summers
44:11 - Six Stories by Matt Weselowski
45:31 - The Light Between Oceans by ML Steadman
47:52 - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
49:09 - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
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, and you should know we will not shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish-deep dive, |
| 0:32.0 | and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I oftentimes |
| 0:41.3 | read for the sole purpose of scaring myself silly. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom before, living in New Mexico, |
| 0:51.0 | and I'm a data-driven nerd living in a reader's body. This is episode |
| 0:55.1 | number 17 of season 2 and we're so glad you're here. You're making me giggle every |
| 0:59.7 | week with your |
| 1:04.0 | going to say for the intro. |
| 1:05.3 | But I was thinking about that because today in our deep dive |
| 1:08.7 | we are going to be talking about true crime, |
| 1:12.2 | which is one of my favorite genres. |
| 1:14.8 | So we're gonna do a mini deep dive |
| 1:16.2 | talking about some of our favorites. |
| 1:18.0 | Katie's got some questions, |
| 1:19.4 | probably surrounding why the heck would I want to read |
| 1:22.4 | about people being murdered. |
| 1:24.0 | True. |
| 1:25.0 | Correct. |
| 1:26.0 | We'll be doing that a little bit later. |
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