Season 2, Episode 42: Some Deeper Book Themes + When Characters Are Real
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Mindy are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: reading around the house, inside and outside, and a bookish article that brings vindication for a strong opinion
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Current Reads: books that give us the chance to think a new way
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Deep Dive: when book characters are real to you: crushes, friends, enemies, and family
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Book Presses: fiction novels that spark conversation and/or break your heart
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Bookish Moments:
1:34 - Lord of the Flies article
1:49 - Season 2, Episode 31
2:45 - Zero Gravity Chairs (this is the "budget" version I got. There's also a more expensive version, and I'm sure they're better, but I'm not sure if they are twice as good…)
Current Reads:
3:34 - Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora Neale Hurston (Mindy)
6:47 - The Cider House Rules by John Irving (Kaytee)
9:14 - Night Theater by Vikram Paralkar
9:18 - The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi (Mindy)
12:36 - Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim (Kaytee)
15:17 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
15:22 - The Girl in Red, Lost Boy, Alice by Christina Henry
15:56 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Mindy)
19:04 - Recursion by Blake Crouch (Kaytee)
19:07 - Season 1, Episode 45
19:22 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Deep Dive - When Book Characters are Real: Enemies, Family Members, Friends, and Crushes:
23:35 - Delores Umbridge from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
23:40 - Jonathan Randall from Outlander by Diana Gabladon
24:47 - Brad from A Good Neighborhood by Therese Ann Fowler
25:07 - Old Nick from Room by Emma Donoghue
25:46 - Bella Swan from Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
26:28 - Jupiter North from Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
27:25 - Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
27:42 - Kira from Beartown and Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
29:00 - Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
29:22 - Nymphadora Tonks from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
30:26 - Edith from The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
30:57 - Diana from The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
32:20 - Jamie from Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
32:44 - John Guy from Still Life by Louise Penny
34:01 - Rhysand from A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
35:46 - Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen (Mindy)
36:09 - Season 2, Episode 21
37:16 - Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin (Kaytee)
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram
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 you should know we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. |
| 0:21.0 | We're lying on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our |
| 0:23.9 | descriptions will always be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish |
| 0:29.1 | deep dive, and press a book into your hands. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico, |
| 0:35.2 | and I've fallen in love with book characters |
| 0:37.7 | and wanted to kill them. |
| 0:39.1 | And I'm Mindy Brows, a mom-27 reading |
| 0:41.8 | in the mountains of New Mexico, and I don't like it when people tell me. of you're here. All right Mindy I think we both just hinted at it already but our deep dive today is about |
| 0:56.7 | when book characters become real and you love them or hate them like the real people in your lives or you want to be friends with them or you want to invite them to |
| 1:04.4 | Thanksgiving. So we're going to chat a little bit about each of those types of characters and then we cannot |
| 1:10.0 | wait listeners to hear your own choices for those categories but first |
| 1:13.9 | we're gonna get started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week what |
| 1:17.9 | have we got? All right my bookish moment of the week is super hilarious and ironic but it is when Megan Keene vindicated |
| 1:28.0 | my hatred of the Lord of the Flies portrayal of boys left alone in the island by sharing the link to the true story of British boys were marooned and how beautifully they behaved. |
| 1:39.2 | There was no killing. |
| 1:41.2 | There was none of that. I loved that. She thought of that, you know, because that |
| 1:46.0 | refers if you're a new listener to season 2 episode 31 where we threw some books and I find |
| 1:52.4 | it really ironic that I am now associated |
| 1:55.0 | with Lord of the Flies, because that certainly |
| 1:57.1 | wasn't my intention. |
| 1:58.8 | But at the same time, it was just bookish irony fun. |
| 2:03.0 | It made me really happy when Megan share that. |
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