Season 2, Episode 2: #shemademedoit Books + Titles Coming to The Big Screen for the Currently Reading Challenge
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee and Meredith join their powers for good in Season 2, Episode 2! Can't wait for you to tune in!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host: an episode of a favorite podcast that gives a great glimpse into the book industry, and a book-related party that was completely amazing!
Next, we'll remind you about our Bookshelf Thomasville coupon code for you: CURRENTLYLOVING will get you 10% off from our friends over there through the month of August! Enjoy, and be looking for a fantastic giveaway from them for our listeners this month as well.
Moving forward, we discuss our current reads for the week. Some strong opinions in this week's current reads, friends. Hold onto your hankies.
We've got an update for you on our Slow But Steady reads as well. Be sure to look for a post on Instagram in which we ask you to chime in with your own Slow But Steady reads! If you've been looking at a book on your shelves for a long time, but you don't want to commit to it as your "main" read, this is going to be JUST the segment for you. Let us know what you think!
For our deep dive, we are discussing the 8th category in the Currently Reading 2019 Reading Challenge, and we dive deep into Books that are becoming movies this year, as well as some of our favorites from the past.
Finally, this week, we finish with The Book that we'd like to press into your hands, readers. A non-fiction pick that will give you a whole new view on storms, and a YA series that will keep certain TV fans happy when their show has ended.
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!
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3:01 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live Episode 25
3:11 - Book of the Month
5:04 - Mindy Brouse on Episode 32 of Currently Reading Podcast
5:10 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
6:28 - Harry Potter sorting test (our favorite - breaks down your houses by percentages)
7:55 - Bookshelf Thomasville - use code CURRENTLYLOVING for 10% through the month of August!
11:31 - Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
11:46 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live interview with Angie Kim
11:52 - Book of the Month
14:57 - Episode 43 of Currently Reading
15:01 - The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
18:12 - Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and The Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
21:05 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
21:24 - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
24:12 - Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
25:31 - Morgan Tallman on Episode 22
28:35 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
29:27 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
32:11 - Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
32:22 - Book of the Month
34:51 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
35:34 - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
36:05 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
36:48 - Currently Reading 2019 Reading Challenge
37:48 - Pet Sematary by Stephen King
38:04 - It by Stephen King
38:09 - Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
38:28 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
39:04 - Full List of 2019 Book to Movie Titles from our Spreadsheet!
39:13 - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
39:18 - Where'd You Go Bernadette? by Maria Semple
40:22- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
41:02 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
41:29 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Demas
41:55 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling
42:07 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
42:30 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
43:15 - The Princess Bride by William Golding
43:23 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
43:40 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
44:19 - Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
44:51 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King
45:56 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
46:08 - The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
46:20 - Again, the whole list: 2019 Book to Movie Titles from our Spreadsheet!
46:51 - Five Days At Memorial by Sheri Fink
49:13 - The Selection (and books 2 and 3) by Kiera Cass
*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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| 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 as you know, we have strong and sometimes unpopular opinions, so get ready. We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our |
| 0:28.8 | descriptions will always be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and this week we are pressing |
| 0:35.4 | books into your hands. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco |
| 0:41.8 | Bay Area, and one of my favorite things |
| 0:44.3 | about reading these days is making so many bookish friends. And I'm Katie |
| 0:48.8 | Cobb a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico and I would love to spend my days at a reading retreat. |
| 0:55.4 | This is episode number 2 of season 2 and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:58.8 | Oh reading retreat sounds great. |
| 1:02.0 | I know I've been so covetous lately of like the people that |
| 1:05.1 | get to go away and read with their friends all weekend. My one question here I |
| 1:10.1 | mean but my my absolute question is how much reading is getting done because I go in lots of |
| 1:15.2 | girls trips and I love them and I love my friends and I just I don't want them to be any different than they are but I do not get a lot of reading time in. |
| 1:23.7 | No, I know. |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah, I totally agree. |
| 1:26.0 | So that's, you know. |
| 1:27.1 | My other question is who's cooking? |
| 1:30.3 | Or like, how are people being fed? |
| 1:32.1 | Because I don't want to spend my reading retreat |
| 1:34.7 | cooking for 10 women. |
| 1:36.8 | Right, well, cooking for 10 women can be fun, |
| 1:39.1 | but then it's cooking and talking, |
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