Season 2, Episode 40: What To Say When People Tell You "I Don't Have Time to Read"
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: seasonal reading vibes and buddy reads during quarantine
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Current Reads: bookish serendipity books and books from repeat authors (that we've read before)
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Deep Dive: how to respond to the "I don't have time to read" comments
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Book Presses: one of few authors that gets a second book on the press list and a contemporary WWII classic. Ha!
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Bookish Moments:
4:41 - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Current Reads:
7:05 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
7:42 - The Hotel Neversink by Adam O'Fallon Price (Meredith)
8:11 - The Shining by Stephen King
8:15 - The Body by Richard Backman
10:38 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
11:32 - What Lies Between Us by John Marrs (Kaytee)
11:57 - Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
14:01 - The One by John Marrs
14:02 - The Passengers by John Marrs
17:32 - Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson (Meredith)
21:02 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt
21:05 - Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
21:28 - Book of the Month
21:34 - The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver (Kaytee)
23:58 - One Day in December by Josie Silver
24:38 - The Whispered Word (Secret Book and Scone Society #2) by Ellery Adams (Meredith)
25:35 - The Secret, Book, and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
26:42 - The Book of Candlelight (Secret Book and Scone #3) by Ellery Adams
27:07 - Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Kaytee)
28:24 - Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle
Deep Dive -I Don't Have Time to Read:
39:42 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
40:04 - 168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam
43:08 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
43:23 - David Sedaris Books: Calypso and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
43:29 - Liane Moriarty Books: What Alice Forgot and Big Little Lies
43:42 - The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (Meredith)
44:08 - The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
44:17 - The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
47:53 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Kaytee)
50:13 - The movie (that I haven't watched yet) on Netflix
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. We are two bookish best friends who spend time every week |
| 0:16.2 | talking about the books that we read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions |
| 0:22.2 | so get ready. |
| 0:23.7 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, |
| 0:26.2 | and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, |
| 0:31.6 | 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, |
| 0:39.0 | and this week I realized how much my book choices are affected by the season. |
| 0:44.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four living in New Mexico, |
| 0:48.0 | and happy hour on the patio with a book is my favorite time of day. |
| 0:52.0 | This is episode number 40 of season 2 and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.8 | So before we get into our books and our bookish moments and all our other fun stuff, I'm going to tease really quick |
| 1:01.8 | that today our deep dive is about something that all readers I think probably understand right and it's that when you tell somebody what books you've been reading |
| 1:11.5 | there's a lot of people that respond with oh oh, wow, I don't even have time to read books. |
| 1:16.0 | And sometimes that feels a little bit, a little bit mean almost, right? So we're going to talk a little bit |
| 1:21.6 | about how you respond to the person that does not have time to read books for whatever reason |
| 1:28.8 | That'll be a good one. All right, but before we do that, let's get started how we always do, which is with your bookish moment of the week, Meredith. |
| 1:35.0 | All right, my bookish moment of the week, I teased a little bit in my intro cut, which is that my reading is so seasonally affected. |
| 1:44.4 | We've talked about this before, we've talked about the fact that I'm a sincere mood reader, |
| 1:48.4 | right? |
| 1:49.4 | I just have to read whatever I'm in the mood for no matter what, but those moods are really, really affected by the weather. |
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