Season 2, Episode 44: Maybe the Grossest Book Ever + Homework for Listeners
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: breaking the reading "rules" and unloading read books on others
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Current Reads: characters and plots and murders and poetry!
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Deep Dive: we need your voices! And your questions! Listen up for "listener contributions"
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Book Presses: some large books that will keep you in great reading for a long summer week
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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Current Reads:
5:44 - Thirteen by Steve Cavanaugh (Meredith)
6:03 - The Holdout by Graham Moore
8:10 - Good Talk by Mira Jacob (Kaytee)
8:17 - Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM
10:17 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (Meredith)
12:02 - FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
14:54 - From the Front Porch Episode casting this book as a movie
15:48 - The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy (Kaytee)
15:51 - Novel Pairings Episode about poetry
18:25 - The End of October by Lawrence Wright (Meredith)
21:10 - Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
21:23 - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd (Kaytee)
Deep Dive - Upcoming Listener Contributions:
26:15 - Episode 46 of Season 1 - Listener Presses
28:39 - Episode 47 of Season 1 - Ask Us Anything
30:58 - Email us at currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com with your presses and questions BY JUNE 15th!
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
32:09 - The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Meredith)
34:45 - The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne (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 get ready. We are light on the |
| 0:25.0 | chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be |
| 0:28.0 | spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll |
| 0:32.1 | press books into your hands. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and school is out |
| 0:40.0 | and I am ready for summer reading. |
| 0:42.3 | And I'm Katie Combe, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico and I love unloading my |
| 0:47.2 | read books onto others. This is episode number 44 of season 2 and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.0 | Now when you just said that Katie I almost laughed in the middle of what you were |
| 0:56.9 | I didn't want to step on you but I had all of a sudden this idea that you were |
| 1:00.9 | just talking about the books that you have that are read like your |
| 1:03.5 | actual the color red like any red book that you have I hate red books they're terrible I |
| 1:10.0 | would you want to that's weird but then I you meant read like books I have read my previously |
| 1:15.8 | completed books on to others all right I'm with you okay well now that we're all on the same page, I'm going to tease really quick that our deep dive today, you guys, has everything to do with you and almost nothing to do with us. |
| 1:29.0 | We need your voices and your questions and your feedback and all your things so stay tuned for that. |
| 1:34.6 | But first like always we are getting started with our bookish moments of the week, |
| 1:38.3 | Meredith. Why don't you start us out? |
| 1:40.0 | Okay. I had a little bit of fun this week giving myself some permission that I almost never in my life give myself. |
| 1:48.5 | And this is an issue for me, right? |
| 1:50.0 | I'm so such a rule follower that I don't easily let myself off the hook. |
| 1:55.2 | But this time my library reopened and so it was time for me to finally have to make some |
| 2:02.2 | decisions about the gigantic hall of books that I got back in March. |
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