Season 2, Episode 48: Special Episode - Listener Presses!
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Meredith are here with a special episode for you! We are sharing 15 of the listener "presses" we received in our call to action! You'll hear from each of those 15 listeners and then our commentary on each press, but none of our other regular segments. This was one of our most popular episodes of Season 1, so we hope you love it this year as well!
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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BOTM Ad (these are Goodreads links so you can check out these books and decide if you want to grab them from BOTM or not!):
2:30 - The Shadows by Alex North
2:39 - The Whisper Man by Alex North
2:52 - Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
3:55 - The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper
4:09 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottleib
4:13 - Being Mortal by Atul Gwande
4:50 - Use our link and code CURRENTLYREADING to get your first book for $9.99
Listener Presses:
6:00 - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Sarah)
6:03 - The Mothers by Brit Bennett
8:31 - A Burning by Megha Majumdar
8:37 - Passing by Nella Larsen
8:48 - Novel Pairings Podcast episode about Passing by Nella Larsen
9:06 - The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin (Nicole)
12:11 - The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo (Lindsay)
14:03 - Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
15:01 - An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten (Jennifer)
17:06 - Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (Joy)
19:07 - Beartown by Fredrick Backman
19:40 - The Mother-in-Law Cure by Katherine Wilson (Alanna)
21:51 - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Theresa)
27:01 - The Scorpio Races by Maggie Steifvater (Nicole)
30:03 - Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris (Whitney)
30:57 - Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris
31:49 - Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
31:50 - Naked by David Sedaris
31:58 - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
32:01 - Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
32:28 - Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
32:59 - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwoood (Frances)
33:57 - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
34:11 - The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
34:12 - MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
34:24 - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
35:43 - The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling by Mary Rose Wood (Emily)
36:35 - Episode 42 of Season 1 with Heather Chollar
37:04 - Mary Poppins by PL Travers
37:54 - Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore (Amy)
39:57 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik (Morgan)
41:45 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
42:37 - With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (Kaytee)
46:16 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (Holly)
47:35 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
47:36 - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
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 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. |
| 0:24.8 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, |
| 0:27.1 | and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.8 | Today, we're not doing any of our normal stuff. |
| 0:32.6 | Nope, totally something different for you. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, |
| 0:38.4 | and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:41.2 | and our currently reading bookish friends are some of my favorite people. |
| 0:45.6 | And I'm Katie Cotton, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico, and I love hearing from |
| 0:49.7 | listeners about their favorite books. |
| 0:51.8 | This is episode number 48 of season 2 and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:56.5 | Meredith special episode number one we made it to season 2 right towards the end. I'm so excited. First though today we are going to intro with our |
| 1:06.4 | Book of the Month ad. It's that time of the month. You know that time of the month and |
| 1:11.2 | I do put yes the best time of the month. But in a good way. Yes, the best time of the month. |
| 1:15.0 | I do want to put a little caveat here at the beginning of the episode though. |
| 1:20.0 | You guys know that we've had a book of the month as a sponsor as our only sponsor for a few months now |
| 1:24.8 | and this month they got in a little bit of hot water right around the Black Lives Matter movement |
| 1:30.4 | and lifting black voices and amplifying |
| 1:33.4 | millenated voices as the hashtag says on Instagram. |
| 1:36.9 | We had a number of heartfelt but difficult conversations |
| 1:40.9 | with our contact over at Book of the Month, really good conversations, but difficult. |
| 1:47.4 | And basically we landed on a spot where we were comfortable saying, here's kind of what we want to |
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