Season 2, Episode 38: Tackling Controversial Titles + How We Read Series Books
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
-
Bookish Moments: our bookish friends buddy read of Still Life by Louise Penny with the Patrons of Currently Reading
-
Current Reads: we each have three books to share, but we're messing with the format a bit this week as the discussion needs some nuance.
-
Deep Dive: reading books in a series and what we do when "the next one" releases
-
Book Presses: a few of our favorite series choices to round out the deep dive
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!*
.
.
.
.
.
Bookish Moments:
1:23 - The Bookish Friends Buddy Read discussion on Patreon
1:31 - Still Life by Louise Penny
3:05 - Our previous COVID(eo)s are all available to watch for free on Patreon as well!
Current Reads:
5:10 - The House of Trelawney by Hannah Rothschild (Meredith)
9:24 - The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister (Kaytee)
11:59 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
14:46 - Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson (Meredith)
17:33 - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (Kaytee)
21:40 - Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester (Kaytee)
26:24 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (Meredith)
28:37 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
28:39 - The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
29:03 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Deep Dive - Reading Books in Series:
33:20 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
34:02 - Three Pines series by Louise Penny
37:02 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
37:25 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
38:25 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling
39:05 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
42:54 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
44:03 - The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva (Meredith)
46:04 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Kaytee)
49:00 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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 you should know we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, |
| 0:26.4 | and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll discuss our current reads, a book is steep dive, |
| 0:31.5 | and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:38.8 | And I'm finding that I am turning into a re-reader. |
| 0:43.2 | And I'm Katie Kom, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico. |
| 0:46.8 | And I'll go ahead and say that chatting with friends about a favorite book |
| 0:49.8 | is the best way to spend a weekend. |
| 0:52.3 | This is episode number 38 of season 2 and we're so glad |
| 0:55.4 | you're here. All right Katie so is this going to be one of those weeks where we |
| 0:59.2 | both have the same bookish moment of the week? I believe it is, Meredith. |
| 1:04.0 | I can't imagine that we could have differing bookish moments this week. |
| 1:08.0 | So why don't you start us out by telling you, by telling all of us about yours? |
| 1:12.0 | All right, so we're recording. by telling all of us about yours. |
| 1:12.6 | All right, so we are recording a little later than normal |
| 1:16.2 | this week because we wanted to do it in this order |
| 1:18.7 | because on Sunday of this week, |
| 1:21.3 | we had our bookish friends book club discussion that we've been |
| 1:26.4 | talking about on the show for the last couple of weeks we discussed still life |
| 1:31.8 | by Luby's Penny and it was so much fun unlike our first |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Meredith Schwartz, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Meredith Schwartz and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.