Season 2, Episode 32: Page-turning Current Reads + Our Favorite Bookish Podcasts
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: he enthusiasm that only comes from scoring a great book, and a new bookstore and "fan in the wild" moment
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Current Reads: we've got three books a piece, and they are all over the place. Be sure to pop over to Instagram to enter our giveaway!
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Deep Dive: Our favorite bookish podcasts!
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Book Presses: a real page turner and apocalypse fiction
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:
3:30 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
4:40 - Title Wave Books, Revised in Albuquerque, NM
5:09 - 50 Shades of Gray by E.L. James
5:11 - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Current Reads:
6:00 - The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker
8:16 - @bookworm_365 on Instagram
8:49 - Roots by Alex Haley
10:12 - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
10:14 - Shogun by James Clavell
10:15 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
10:24 - We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
10:29 - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
12:09 - The Literary Enneagram by Judith Searle
13:20 - The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
14:06 - Don't Overthink It by Anne Bogel
15:47 - Instagram Giveaway!
16:11 - Greenglass House by Kate Midford
19:50 - All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Deep Dive - The Bookish Podcasts in our Queues
22:39 - Novel Pairings @novelpairingspod with @chelseyreads and @fictionmatters
24:08 - He Read She Read @hereadsheread with @chelseyreads and @curtisreads
24:45 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
25:46 - All the Books Podcast with @franzencomesalive
27:37 - What Should I Read Next @whatshouldireadnext with @annebogel
27:42 - One Great Book with @annebogel
28:59 - Episode 11 of WSIRN with Meredith!
29:16 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
30:00 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
30:21 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live with @sarahsbookshelves
32:23 - SBSL Episode with @jordys.book.club
32:38 - SBSL Episode with Siobhan Jones of BOTM
33:12 - Episode 16 with Meredith and Kaytee
33:21 - From the Front Porch @bookshelftville with @anniebjones
33:40 - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
34:09 - Bonus episodes for Patrons: Kaytee Reads Too Much!
35:07 - Shelf Subscription
35:39 - Diving In @diving_in_podcast with @virginia_reads and @lousie_cooks_and_reads
37:18 - Sorta Awesome @sortaawesomeshow with @sortaawesomemeg
37:27 - 10 Things to Tell You @10thingstotellyou with @laura.tremaine
37:35 - The Popcast @thepopcast with @knoxmccoy and @jamiebgolden
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
39:13 - What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan
41:08 - Kaytee's (written) author interview with Gilly Macmillan
41:39 - Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
41:45 - Episode 1 of Currently Reading!
43:10 - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
43:12 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
43:32 - Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
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, especially from last week, we will not shy away from having strong opinions so get |
| 0:25.1 | ready. We are light on the chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions |
| 0:29.2 | will always be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and bookstores are my favorite places. And I'm a |
| 0:44.0 | Kady Kob, a homeschooling mama four living in New Mexico |
| 0:46.7 | and I'm a hoarder of books but not toilet paper. |
| 0:49.6 | This is episode number 32 of season two and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.4 | So you're not hoarding toilet paper. Are you hoarding ibuprofen because I am? |
| 0:57.3 | No I'm not hoarding anything. Although I did go to Sam's Club yesterday and |
| 1:01.0 | everything was gone. Like the entire toilet paper and paper tell all of it was gone. So, I don't know, but I love the meme going around that's like, don't worry guys, we're all going to be stuck in our homes. It's time to hoard books and I'm like, yes, that I can get behind. |
| 1:16.4 | Let's do it. |
| 1:17.4 | So we're recording today on, we should say on March 10th, so that people for posterity |
| 1:22.2 | will know March 10th |
| 1:23.2 | 2020 we are right in the middle of all things coronavirus and we don't have a |
| 1:29.7 | it's not really come yet I mean it's not to say that there aren't cases in Texas, but we aren't really kind of at that |
| 1:36.2 | super panic level here. What about you in New Mexico? |
| 1:39.5 | New Mexico is one of few states that has no reported cases yet so we are actually kind of |
| 1:44.7 | we're blaming the green chili we're saying that nobody comes to New Mexico |
| 1:48.5 | because we're boring I don't know what's actually going on but we're you know |
| 1:52.4 | fingers cross there's actually not |
| 1:53.7 | been any coronavirus here yet so all right good well excellent so we are going to try to |
| 1:58.6 | turn our attention the news is full of all of that so let's try to turn our |
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