Season 3, Episode 10: The Books We Are Jealous You Get to Read for the First Time
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a YouTube rabbit hole and setting down the books for Netflix
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Current Reads: A selection of hits and misses, all of which we're ready to discuss with nuance
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Deep Dive: The Books We Are Jealous That You Get to Read for the First Time. Ah, nostalgia.
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Book Presses: righting another wrong in the press list, and cozy comfort for when the world is too much
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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Book of the Month - ad:
2:03 - Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
2:15 - Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
2:56 - Leave the World Behind by Ruman Alam
3:02 - All Things Murderful with Meredith on Patreon
3:33 - Ties that Tether by Jane Igharo
3:55 - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
4:52 - Use our link and the code CURRENTLYREADING to get your first book for just $9.99!
Bookish Moments:
8:02 - Winter in Narnia ASMR room
8:30 - Mr. Tumnus' House ASMR room
8:34 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
9:32 - Interior Design Masters on Netflix
9:58 - Hoarders on Netflix
10:07 - The Home Edit on Netflix
Current Reads:
10:38 - Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore (Meredith)
11:06 - Listener Press Episode at the end of Season 2
14:18 - The Night Swim by Megan Goldin (Kaytee)
14:44 - Kaytee thinks January LaVoy is her BFF because of her interview with her
17:26 - The Boys Club by Erica Katz (Meredith)
17:33 - Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
17:34 - The Firm by John Grisham
20:55 - Long Walk to FREEDOM by Nelson Mandela (you guys, I said WATER? What the heck??) (Kaytee)
24:19 - Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Meredith)
28:52 - The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner (Kaytee)
31:00 - As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
31:45 - The study about Millennials and Gen Z and the Holocaust
Deep Dive - Books We Are Jealous You Get to Read for the First Time:
33:10 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
33:15 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
33:23 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
33:27 - The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
33:29 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
34:38 - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
35:08 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling
35:59 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
36:01 - This Is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
36:03 - The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
38:13 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
38:17 - I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
39:38 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (Meredith)
43:50 - A Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindburgh (Kaytee)
43:58 - Episode 34 of Season 1
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 bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we read recently, and as you already know, we do not shy away from having strong opinions so get yourself ready. |
| 0:26.0 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler |
| 0:30.0 | free. |
| 0:31.0 | We'll discuss our current reads, a book is steep dive, and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I am proud of the silly, silly things my reading makes me do. |
| 0:45.0 | And I'm Katie Com, a homeschooling mama for, living in New Mexico, and I had to set down my book to be here today. |
| 0:51.0 | This is episode number 10 of season 3, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.8 | What are you doing that so silly, Meredith? Well in my bookish moment of week I'm going to tell you something really |
| 1:00.8 | silly and I am super proud of it. |
| 1:03.0 | All right, well I'm excited to hear about it. |
| 1:05.0 | But first, we get to start with our first episode of the month for October, |
| 1:10.0 | which means that we get to get into Book of the Month, our one and only sponsor for currently |
| 1:15.2 | reading still, but we love them. |
| 1:16.7 | So let's chat a little about Book of the Month. |
| 1:19.6 | These picks, this month, Holy Bananas. Yes, this month presents a really big problem but it's the best kind of problem as far |
| 1:28.5 | as I'm concerned to have with a bookish subscription in that all five of the books this month. |
| 1:34.8 | So you remember last month I skipped because I needed skip. |
| 1:37.8 | I have a lot on my shelf. |
| 1:38.9 | I actually was pretty successful in this last month reading a couple of those to make some room this month all five |
| 1:46.5 | of the picks I literally would want to get I've narrowed it down to three. |
| 1:56.2 | Oh, but this was really, really hard to make the choice. Okay, the book that I'm going to go with |
| 2:01.6 | as my number one pick is I'm gonna go with magic lessons. As my number one pick is I'm going to go with magic lessons. |
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