Season 2, Episode 43: Wheelhouse Books + All Things "Murderful"
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a giant buddy read discussion and an author chiming into the chat about his book
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Current Reads: wheelhouse books and being surprised by some titles
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Deep Dive: "murderful" - books that aren't for the faint of heart
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Book Presses: some of our favorite murderful titles
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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2:22 - A Burning by Megha Mjumdar
2:59 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
3:14 - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
3:45 - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
3:54 - One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
4:35 - Use our Link and the code CURRENTLYREADING to get your first book for just $9.99!
Bookish Moments:
5:40 - Episode 41 of Season 2 - discussion of FantasticLand starts at 29:40
5:44 - FantasticLand by Mike Backoven
6:02 - Patreon Bookish Friends
6:04 - Scribd - free 60 day trial!
Current Reads:
9:50 - Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano (Kaytee)
12:36 - The Tenant by Katrine Ingburgh (Meredith)
14:30 - The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey (Kaytee)
15:19 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
15:20 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
17:38 - The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty (Meredith)
23:08 - Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo- Anstine (Kaytee)
26:12 - Hunted by Meagan Spooner (Meredith)
27:09 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
27:20 - Beauty by Robin McKinley
Deep Dive - Murderful - Books that Aren't for the Faint of Heart:
29:32 - Nancy Drew books by
30:42 - RL Stine Goosebumps Books
31:00 - Intensity by Dean Koontz
31:26 - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
35:05 - FantasticLand by Mike Backoven
35:08 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
34:40 - Pines by Blake Crouch
35:00 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
35:19 - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
35:39 - The Hunger by Alma Katsu
36:10 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
36:40 - The Need by Helen Phillips
37:17 - The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
37:20 - The Whisper Man by Alex North
37:21 - The Chestnut Man by Soren Sviestrup
38:09 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (not Phillips, doh)
38:12 - Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
38:18 - All the Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison
39:04 - Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
40:00 - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
40:01 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
40:03 - The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
40:52 - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
41:03 - The Chain by Adrian McKinty
41:13 - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
41:42 - In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
42:28 - I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
44:00 - Post Mortem (Kay Scarpetta #1) by Patricia Cornwell
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 | 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, we don't shy away from our strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.6 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, |
| 0:26.2 | and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.6 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, |
| 0:31.4 | and then we'll press books into your hands. I'm Meredith |
| 0:34.2 | Monday Schwartz a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin Texas and I am |
| 0:39.0 | waiting with baited breath for curbside pickup at my library. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico, and I love it when a book scares me |
| 0:47.8 | stupid. |
| 0:49.0 | This is episode number 43 of season 2, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:52.6 | Those are two really good things, curbside pickup at the library and books that scare you |
| 0:56.8 | stupid and they go hand in hand. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm hoping to curbside pick up a book that scares me stupid soon so |
| 1:02.1 | ta-da perfect perfect exactly he before we get into it we are at the first of the month it is time for us to talk about one of our favorite times in the month, |
| 1:12.7 | the book of the month picks are out. |
| 1:14.7 | And Katie, Katie bar the door |
| 1:17.1 | because this month we are both having a problem with a capital P. Yeah, no joke because we love Book of the Month, but sometimes it's hard to choose because you're not |
| 1:29.2 | sure you want any books. |
| 1:31.2 | And maybe you're going to get one from the library instead. But this month, |
| 1:34.3 | oh man, this month's hard to choose for the other reason. Yeah, they are all, or almost all of them are ones that I want and we're |
| 1:42.1 | leant, we can't, we actually can't get all of them are ones that I want and we're limp we can't we actually can't get all of them so trying to narrow it down to just one or two I know you and I are both really really struggling with that okay so okay you haven't told me if you have to narrow it down to just one, which I know you're going to get two, |
| 1:55.3 | but if you had to just narrow it down to one, what are you going to do? |
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