Season 2, Episode 31: Spicy Takes - Books We Wanted to Throw Against the Wall
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Spicy take warning! Strong opinions abound in this episode.
Meredith, Kaytee, and Mindy are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a bookish moment of accountability, technology disasters, and a librarian friend
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Current Reads: two books each with lots of happy reading
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Deep Dive: Books that we RIATIATW (Read It And Threw It Against The Wall)
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Book Presses: a graphic novel for adults lands and as classic middle grade pick
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Bookish Moments:
2:18 - Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
3:40 - Season 2, Episode 30 was a disaster
Current Reads:
7:13 - A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
7:18 - As Bright As Heaven by Susan Meissner
7:32 - The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
9:43 - The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
9:48 - The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
10:08 - Vageode Cake
12:19 - Currently Reading Illustrated Reading Journal (Free for Patrons!)
12:36 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
12:43 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
13:40 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
14:57 - Winterhouse Mysteries by Ben Guterson
13:50 - Thirteen by Steve Cavanaugh
16:15 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
16:19 - The Firm by John Grisham
17:27 - The Holdout by Graham Moore
18:00 - Slay by Brittney Morris
18:04 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
20:36 - The Selection by Kiera Cass
20:50 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Deep Dive - Books We Read and Threw Against the Wall:
23:23 - What Should I Read Next with Anne Bogel
23:36 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
24:52 - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
26:22 - 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
26:55 - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
29:45 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
33:49 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
34:53 - The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain
35:33 - Patron Buddy Read!
38:20 - Mac B Kid Spy, Mac Undercover by Mac Barnett
39:02 - Mac B Kid Spy, The Impossible Crime by Mac Barnett
42:40 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
44:41 - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
45:46 - Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
47:01 - May B by Caroline Starr Rose
47:32 - Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
48:18 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling
48:40 - The Secrets of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
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 as you know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.5 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler |
| 0:28.7 | free. |
| 0:29.7 | We'll discuss our current reads, a book is steep 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 I think the best |
| 0:40.4 | feeling is wanting the world to leave you alone with your book. |
| 0:44.9 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, and I'm having a great day leaping |
| 0:49.9 | into books. |
| 0:51.5 | And I'm Mindy Brows, a mom to seven, hiking and reading in the mountains of New Mexico, and I love |
| 0:56.7 | feisty friends and people I can hate things with. |
| 0:59.9 | This is episode number 31 of season two, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 1:04.0 | All right guys we are all here together and I love our episodes where we're all together. |
| 1:10.5 | Me too. |
| 1:11.8 | This is going to be so much fun and especially this episode because you guys are not going to believe what our deep dive is. |
| 1:17.0 | Our deep dive today is so full of strong opinions because we are doing a deep dive into books that we read and hated |
| 1:26.1 | so much we wanted to throw them against a wall. So we are going to be giving |
| 1:31.2 | strong, strong opinions. I hope you guys are ready because honestly, I don't |
| 1:38.1 | know if we are, but I'm excited. It's going to be good. It's really nerve-wracking to talk about a book that you hated when you know, I mean one of mine I know |
| 1:48.5 | took BooksterGram by Storm so there's going to be a lot of people who are like you know I don't know maybe |
| 1:54.0 | we're going to lose subscribers we might people going like oh if you hated that |
| 1:57.3 | but I can't listen to you anymore but we'll see strong opinions welcome is our motto |
| 2:01.2 | we're gonna do it. All right so but first let's |
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