Season 2, Episode 33: Books That Make You Sob on the Floor

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today, Kaytee and Mindy are discussing:

Bookish Moments: books as anti-depressants, and meeting an internet friend in real life
Current Reads: each of us shares three books we've been reading lately.
Deep Dive: The books that made us sob on the floor!
Book Presses: a middle grade and a WWII sob fest, to keep you going with your cathartic cries!

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:

2:32 - A Good Neighborhood by Therese Ann Fowler

2:33 - Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

3:53 - Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM

Current Reads:

4:59 - Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

9:13 - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

11:03 - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

11:10 - The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

12:03 - Changeling by Molly Harper

15:14 - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

15:43 - Notes From A Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwauchi

16:28 - Currently Reading 2020 Challenge

18:23 - Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes) by Lorna Landvik

22:15 - Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson

Deep Dive - the Books that Will Make You Weep:

25:52 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman

25:55 - Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

25:59 - This Is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel

26:02 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

26:15 - Us Against You and Beartown by Fredrick Backman

26:25 - Castle of Water by Dane Hucklebridge

27:04 - Shogun by James Clavell

27:52 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

28:44 - My Sister's Keeper and Change of Heart by Jodi Piccoult

29:02 - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

29:52 - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

30:59 - Charlotte's Web by EB White

31:14 - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley

31:16 - Marley and Me by John Grogan

31:18 - The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

31:20 - Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

31:21 - The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlins

32:04 - The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong

33:48 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding

34:14 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

34:16 - Five Feet Apart by Rachel Lippencott, Mikki Daughtry, and Tobias Iaconis

34:26 - Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

35:08 - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

37:08 - When I'm Gone by Emily Bleeker

37:40 - A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

38:41 - The Chosen by Chaim Potok

38:50 - A Single Shard by Lin Sue Park

39:23 - The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M Graff

Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:

41:55 - Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff

43:22 - Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

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.
0:18.0	And as you know, we do not shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. We're light on the
0:23.8	chit chat heavy on the book talk in our descriptions will always be spoiler
0:28.1	free. We'll discuss our current reads of bookish deep dive and press a book into
0:32.3	your hand.
0:33.0	I'm Katie Com, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, and I've stocked up on library
0:38.1	books for the long haul.
0:40.2	And I'm Mindy Burrows, a mom of seven reading and hiking in the mountains of New Mexico.
0:44.7	And I love being forced to rest and read more.
0:48.2	This is episode number 33 of season two and we are so glad you're here. Mindy the world has gone bananas. Oh my
0:55.6	golly yes it has yes. Wow and we're gonna talk about that because I have a
1:01.2	feeling that your bookish one of the week is going to lean into that a little bit, but first I want to tell everybody that our deep dive today is especially appropriate for Mindy and Katie because we both have a lot of big feelings about things and
1:14.5	we're gonna talk about books that make you sob your eyes out.
1:17.8	Meredith hates crying so we booted her out. We're like no Meredith, not for you.
1:22.0	That's right Meredith, no this is pretty much Katie and I gonna be all over this
1:28.2	Yeah, if we were like here's a list of books that makes you cry
1:31.6	She would be like great taking all of these off my TVR immediately.
1:35.0	Excellent.
1:36.0	And meanwhile, we're like, give them to me.
1:39.0	Yes, exactly.
1:40.0	But before we get into that, let's start the way we always do, which is with your bookish moment of the week.
1:44.4	And what do you got?
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