Season 2, Episode 47: Evil Book Twins (and Why You Need One!)
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a zoom call and a buddy read
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Current Reads: apocalyptic, scary, ho-hum, heartwarming, icky, and revealing. We've got a bit of everything!
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Deep Dive: the anti-book twin or… the EVIL book twin!
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Book Presses: a historical fiction novel with broad appeal and a favorite mystery series
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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Bookish Moments:
3:15 - Meeting 20 Patrons of the podcast (Bookish Friends) over Zoom!
4:24 - Buddy reading a book with mom
Current Reads:
5:16 - Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (Kaytee)
5:28 - Kindred by Octavia Butler
6:38 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
6:40 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
8:00 - Parable of the Talents (book #2) by Octavia Butler
8:38 - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud (Meredith)
11:48 - The Love Story of Missy Carmichael by Beth Morrey (Kaytee)
11:59 - @booknerdnative on Instagram
13:29 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
14:06 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (Meredith)
14:16 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
18:45 - The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel (Kaytee)
20:40 - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
21:49 - The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s by Andy Green (Meredith)
22:48 - Office Ladies Podcast
Deep Dive - Evil Book Twins:
27:14 - From the Front Porch Podcast
28:00 - What Should I Read Next Podcast
29:43 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live Podcast
31:11 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
32:13 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
34:55 - Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Kaytee)
35:14 - Episode 33 of Season 1
36:34 - Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (Meredith)
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips 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 |
| 0:16.2 | every week talking about the books that we read recently and as you already know we will not shy away |
| 0:22.0 | from those strong opinions opinions so buckle up. |
| 0:25.6 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler |
| 0:29.6 | free. |
| 0:30.6 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and Buddy |
| 0:40.2 | reads might be something I enjoy now. |
| 0:44.0 | Liar, I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling Mama |
| 0:46.6 | for living in New Mexico, and I'm looking forward |
| 0:49.2 | to recording in a new space after our short summer break. |
| 0:52.2 | This is episode number 47 of season 2 and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:57.0 | But he reads Meredith, really? |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, that is coming up in my bookish moment of the week. I'll tell you a little bit more about that but I wanted |
| 1:03.7 | to let everybody know a couple things a couple of housekeeping things later in this |
| 1:07.5 | episode we are going to be doing a many deep dive on the concept of what we've been calling the anti book twin. We all know |
| 1:16.6 | what book twins are but this is the anti book to and but Katie came up with the |
| 1:19.8 | concept of the evil book twin which is the the same thing, only a cooler name. |
| 1:24.2 | So we're going to talk a little bit about why it's very useful to have book twins, but why also |
| 1:29.9 | it's very useful to know who your evil book twins are. |
| 1:33.7 | So that's coming up later in this episode. |
| 1:35.7 | Katie, also you alluded to it a little bit |
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