Season 2, Episode 28: Don't Read This Book on a Plane + How to Get Books for Review
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee and Meredith have lots to share with you today, Bookworms! We hope you love this episode!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host: a bookish realization, and a crafty bookish gift.
Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We've got some romance and some thriller and some non-fiction and some middle grade. Our reading lives are all over the place!
For our deep dive this week, we are talking getting free books for review. Kaytee has been getting her hands on Advance Review Copies (ARCs) for years now, and she's sharing her wisdom about how to get signed up and ingratiate yourself with publishers.
Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books into Your Hands: we've got a retelling that's fairy tale adjacent, and one that's not for reading on the plane.
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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Bookish Moments:
1:26 - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
4:20 - Cross Stitch Bookmark Kits (this is the one I bought and modified to make this, but this storefront has lots of great designs available!)
Current Reads:
5:32 - The Piper's Pursuit by Melanie Dickerson
5:39 - Rump: The Fairly True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Leisl Shurtliff
8:02 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
8:36 - Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
10:55 - The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
11:12 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
14:47 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
15:06 - The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren
18:53 - A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson
20:57 - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
23:55 - Jason Reynolds
24:37 - Jacqueline Woodson
24:42 - Kwame Alexander
24:47 - Caroline Starr Rose
Slow But Steady:
25:54 - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
26:32 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
26:35 - Roots by Alex Haley
27:15 - Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough
27:17 - Shogun by James Clavell
39:24 - Laura Tremaine on Ten Things to Tell You
Deep Dive - How to Get Free Books for Review:
28:59 - NetGalley.com
31:52 - Edelweiss.plus
32:11 - A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
40:32 - Wicked by Gregory Maguire
42:19 - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
42:50 - The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
42:53 - This Is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankl
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 read recently, and as you already know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. We are light on the |
| 0:25.0 | chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.8 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and reading |
| 0:39.5 | in bed late on a weekend morning is me living my best life. |
| 0:43.6 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for |
| 0:46.0 | living in New Mexico, and I've got review copies coming out of my ears. |
| 0:50.3 | This is episode number 28 of season 2, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.0 | You do get a lot of review copies and I'm so glad Katie that you're going to tell us a little bit about that. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, I'm excited to get to share some of my bookish wisdom with everybody today about how to get free books. |
| 1:05.8 | So that's going to be our deep dive. But first we're going to get started the way we always do, which is with our bookish moments of the week. |
| 1:11.6 | So Meredith, what do you got for us? |
| 1:14.3 | All right, my bookish moment of the week |
| 1:16.1 | came to me in the form of a realization. |
| 1:19.4 | And I have been spending a lot of time |
| 1:21.7 | this last week listening to the end or I think I have maybe an hour, hour and a half left of the Dutch house by Anne Patchet, right? It's my slow but steady and I'm listening to it on audio. Which of course we all know I don't do a lot of audio listening. |
| 1:35.1 | But I had this realization as I'm getting toward the end of the book and I'm thinking all these thoughts |
| 1:40.5 | about how much I've really enjoyed this book and I was having this |
| 1:44.8 | thought about how in the first 30 minutes of the listening experience I was sort of like |
| 1:50.9 | on the fence about whether or not I wanted to finish it. |
| 1:54.0 | I was like, I don't know if I really care about Danny and Mave, |
| 1:58.0 | but let's push on because this is just, you know, I'm doing my slobestetti |
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