Season 2, Episode 20: Post-surgery Silliness + What Makes Us Skip or DNF a Book
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee and Meredith are back and chatting about all the books this week. We've got surgery updates and silliness and everything in between.
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host. We're virtually joining in on a trip to a local booklover's heaven, and sitting on the couch binging books together.
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. Romance, and mystery, non-fiction, and YA. We're chatting about all that we've been reading lately, even if it doesn't jive with previous opinions on the show!
Our Slow But Steady check in is going to move to every once in a while instead of every week. You can still check in on Instagram or Facebook, but this is an "off" week for this segment.
For our deep dive this week, we are excited to talk about what makes us skip or DNF (do not finish) a book. Some of these might be obvious to long-time listeners of the show, but some surprised us as well as each other, so let us know what you think and what you discover about your OWN reading tendencies here. We are SO interested to hear it!
Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books into Your Hands: first, a small "bonus press" to add some hilarity to your December, and then a tribute to a recently deceased author, and something to press into the young adults' hands in your life.
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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Bookish Moments:
2:03 - BookPeople in Austin, TX
Current Reads:
8:54 - A Knife at the Opera by Susannah Stacey
10:15 - Agatha Christie books
11:01 - Dorothy Simpson books
11:32 - Episode 8 of Season 2 with Anne Bogel
11:34 - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
15:34 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
15:58 - Do You Mind if I Cancel? by Gary Janetti
17:27 - The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
19:12 - Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
19:20 - Episode 14 of Season 2 with Lori Lynn Tucker
23:12 - American Royals by Katherine McGee
29:08 - Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
29:43 - Dear Martin by Nic Stone
30:49 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Deep Dive:
35:24 - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
35:29 - Doris Kearns Goodwin books
42:52 - Episode 7 of Season 1 with Jessica Turner
42:57 - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Presses:
45:20 - Santaland Diaries Audio from NPR
46:24 - Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
48:15 - Frindle by Andrew Clements
48:16 - Troublemaker by Andrew Clements
48:58 - I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
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. We are light |
| 0:25.9 | on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler |
| 0:29.5 | free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we are pressing books into your hands. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm Meredith Mundi Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and bookstores are definitely my happy place. |
| 0:44.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico, |
| 0:47.0 | and I lay it up on the couch, but I'm consuming books like candy. |
| 0:51.0 | This is episode number 20 of season 2, and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.0 | 20 Meredith of our second season. |
| 0:58.0 | 20 episodes I know which means it's what like almost 70 |
| 1:01.0 | it's like 65 70 yeah. Well we did 48 in season one so plus |
| 1:06.3 | minisodes it's a lot of episodes currently reading. It is we've been doing |
| 1:10.6 | this for a while now and yet we don't run out of ideas. |
| 1:14.0 | Today, for our deep dive, we are going to talk about what makes you and I skip or |
| 1:19.0 | DNF, which is do not finish, a book. |
| 1:22.0 | And I think it'll be an interesting discussion. I'm excited to talk to you about it but I do wonder if either of us is going to be surprised by anything we say or even if our listeners that have been listening for a long time are going to be surprised at all. |
| 1:33.0 | It'll be interesting. |
| 1:34.0 | The more I thought about it, the more I sort of was feeling like it might be almost like a |
| 1:39.1 | bibliotherapy kind of thing because I was coming to realization to even just enforcing myself to |
| 1:43.9 | think it through so we'll see how it goes it'll be a surprise to both of us. I'm |
| 1:47.8 | excited let's let's get that done but first we'll get started like we always do |
| 1:51.6 | which is with our bookish moments of the week. |
| 1:54.5 | What's yours Meredith? |
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