Season 2, Episode 3: Tales from a Used Bookstore + Guest Host Jessica Howard
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Kaytee is chatting with her bookish friend, Jessica Howard, this week while Meredith celebrates her birthday!
You'll hear a "bookish moment of the week" from each host: a meta podcast moment in which Jess hears herself mentioned on the podcast, and a dentist/book overlap that will leave you scratching your head!
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! One more week for this fun code!
Moving forward, we discuss our current reads for the week. We're stuffing some extra titles into this segment this week, because we just couldn't help ourselves.
We've got an update for you on our Slow But Steady reads as well. We're also shouting out a few readers and their own Slow But Steady reads. Have you told us about yours yet?
For our deep dive, Jessica and I chat about what it's like to work at Bookmans in Tucson, AZ. She has lots of fun stories to share, some that make you go hmmm, and some interesting behind-the-scenes book review talk that you'll love!
Finally, this week, we finish with The Book that we'd like to press into your hands, readers. We've got a favorite author that doesn't get enough love and a Southern novel that's anything but slow.
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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1:35 - Season 1, Episode 42 of Currently Reading
3:12 - The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
3:26 - The Giver (quartet) by Lois Lowry
4:21 - Dark Age by Pierce Brown
4:27 - Red Rising by Pierce Brown
4:41 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5:41 - Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enwright
5:49 - The Saturdays (Melendy Quartet) by Elizabeth Enright
5:54 - Four Story Mistake (Melendy Quartet) by Elizabeth Enright
6:03 - Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enwright
7:26 - Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
7:43 - Season 1, Episode 14 with Amy Allen Clark
9:36 - The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
9:47 - Raven Black (The Shetland Books) by Ann Cleeves
9:54 - The Crow Trap (Vera Books) by Ann Cleeves
11:45 - Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
13:28 - The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
13:45 - Imitation Game (movie)
15:30 - The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
15:38 - Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
19:32 - The Wondering Years by Knox McCoy
20:08 - Savor by Shauna Niequist
20:37 - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
21:11 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King
21:23 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21:27 - Serial Reader App
21:46 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
22:26 - Bookman's Entertainment Exchange
24:20 - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
28:14 - Liver Let Die by Liz Lipperman
28:31 - Lord of the Wings by Donna Andrews
28:34 - Gone Gull by Donna Andrews
31:42 - Shelf Awareness
34:38 - NetGalley
37:31 - Frederica by Georgette Heyer
37:33 - The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
38:26 - The Conqueror: A Novel of William the Conqueror by Georgette Heyer
38:27 - My Lord John by Georgette Heyer
41:49 - The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
43:35 - Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
45:00 - Find Jessica: @howjessreads on Twitter, Instagram, and Litsy, or Quirky Bookworm on Facebook
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I readers, welcome to Currently Reading Podcast. We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and you should know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so be ready. |
| 0:21.7 | We're light on the chit chat heavy, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions |
| 0:24.6 | will always be spoiler-free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and this week |
| 0:29.8 | we're pressing books into your hands. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, and I think the |
| 0:35.9 | friendships I make through books might be my favorite. This week I'm joined by Jessica Howard, |
| 0:41.1 | an online friend of mine who lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband, |
| 0:44.9 | her two girls, and a whole lot of books. She has a job many bookworms will love working at a |
| 0:50.2 | used bookstore. This is episode number three of season two and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.8 | Jessica, welcome to currently reading. |
| 0:58.4 | Thanks for having me Katie. I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:00.8 | And we're excited to have you and I'm excited to get some of your reflections on bookmans in our |
| 1:06.8 | deep dive later today so that's what we're going to be diving deep into but first |
| 1:10.8 | we're going to get started the way we always do which is with your bookish moment of the week. What do you have for us? |
| 1:15.5 | Well my bookish moment of the week I shared on my social media happened last Friday. I was heading up out of town and the closest IKEA is like two and a half hours for me and I checked my kids into the small land and I put in my |
| 1:29.9 | my earbuds and I'm walking around catching up on podcast and I heard my own name in |
| 1:34.8 | your episode 42 and I was like oh my gosh I'm famous so that was a really fun thing |
| 1:39.2 | basically I had to take a selfie in the like bathroom part of Ikea it was great so also it's really hard to |
| 1:46.5 | take a selfie in Ikea without getting other people in this shot yes |
| 1:49.4 | some weird looks but I need it happen I bet I bet it is and I have been to that IKEA many times because my family still lives in Arizona so |
| 1:56.4 | we go to that IKEA frequently or I'll send my parents on my behalf. Mom can you go get me a |
| 2:04.0 | grasscog cart and just bring it with you the next time you come visit? |
| 2:06.4 | You know, yeah, my parents live closer |
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