Season 2, Episode 27: Meredith Reads a Second Book in a Series (Gasp!) + How to Read More
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Meredith and Kaytee are chatting about current reads and how to squeeze more satisfaction out of your reading life today!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host: a big change in the reader status of a family member, and a new bookish podcast you'll love.
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We're chatting about books from writing teams, and sequels and classics that go down easy.
For our deep dive this week, we are talking about making 2020 your best reading year yet. Does that mean more books? Maybe. But perhaps it means better books and more time to read them. What are your favorite tips for reading more or better?
Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books into Your Hands: we've got a young adult selection perfect for February in more ways than one and a murder-y book that is cold as well as bone-chilling.
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:
4:24 - Diving In Podcast
Current Reads:
6:10 - Murder As A Fine Art by David Morrell
9:33 - Book Drop Book subscription box
9:51 - The Network by LC Shaw
10:01 - Liv Constantine's books
10:26 - The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
10:27 - The Firm by John Grisham
12:54 - You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
13:04 - Book of the Month
16:04 - An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
16:07 - The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
17:23 - El Deafo by Cece Bell
17:32 - Bonus episode for Patrons
17:43 - Relish by Lucy Knisley
19:09 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
25:46 - Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
25:53 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman
28:28 - The Toll by Neal Shusterman
Deep Dive - How to Read More:
31:46 - Episode 6 of Currently Reading
33:55 - Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Trebole and Elyse Recsh
37:53 - Libby app through your local library
39:21 - Audible - try it for free
39:29 - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
40:58 - My favorite earbuds by SoundPeats
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
45:04 - The Sun is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
46:03 - (her other one) Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
46:53 - Episode 5 of Currently Reading
47:03 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
48:10 - The Current by Tim Johnston
48:15 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys it's Meredith jumping in to say something that you don't often get to hear a say |
| 0:05.2 | on currently reading you might need your earbuds for part of this episode now |
| 0:10.6 | don't get me wrong we don't use any explicit language, but there is a small section of our |
| 0:17.1 | deep dive where we use a term that might not be exactly right for some of our youngest listeners. A lot of you guys |
| 0:25.2 | let us know that you often listen to the show with your kids and we want to be |
| 0:29.6 | respectful of that. So again as you get to the deep dive you might want to pop in those |
| 0:34.2 | earbuds. Thanks so much. On with the show. Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are two bookish best friends who spend time every |
| 0:54.2 | week talking about the books that we've read recently and as you know we don't shy |
| 0:58.6 | away from having strong opinions so get ready. We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and |
| 1:04.4 | our descriptions will always be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish |
| 1:08.4 | deep dive, and then we'll press books into your hands. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, |
| 1:12.1 | a mom of four and full-time |
| 1:13.7 | CEO living in Austin Texas and reading is definitely my medicine. And I'm |
| 1:19.3 | Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I'm the type of reader who tunes out the game |
| 1:24.8 | but tunes into the commercials. |
| 1:26.6 | This is episode number 27 of season 2, |
| 1:29.2 | and we're so glad you're here. |
| 1:30.7 | We are going to talk a little bit later in this episode about something that we know a lot of people are talking about and that is the issue of how to read more, how to fit more reading into your life. I think you and I both have a sort of |
| 1:45.8 | interesting and individual takes on it because we have our lives are set up in a really different |
| 1:49.7 | way, but I think it's going to be an interesting conversation, so we'll deep dive on that a little bit later. |
| 1:55.0 | Yeah, we both had our best reading years ever in 2019 if you just count number of books so I feel like we have some nuggets to share with our listeners. |
| 2:04.0 | But before then, let's talk about our bookish moments of the week. |
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