Season 3, Episode 15: A Guest Current Read + Casting Actors into Books
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: recording with a young friend and library woes
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Current Reads: you have to read this, plus lots of murder
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Deep Dive: do you picture actors and actresses when you read? how about setting?
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Book Presses: a book that would make a great movie, and a classic sci-fi thrill
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1:51 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
3:26 - Join us as a Bookish Friend!
Current Reads:
6:51 - 96 Miles by Laura (J.L) Esplin (Kaytee)
10:35 - Malorie by Josh Malerman (Meredith)
10:43 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
13:34 - Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks (Esther and Kaytee)
16:24 - Minority Report movie
18:56 - COVIDeo number 3 with the kids
19:53 - The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (Meredith)
23:56 - Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body by Rebecca Taussig (Kaytee)
24:06 - @craftyerinw on Instagram
26:57 - @sitting_pretty on Instagram
27:21 - All Things Murderful with Meredith on Patreon
27:33 - @jensbookshelf on Instagram
27:46 - Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Meredith)
29:23 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Deep Dive - Casting Book Characters:
31:50 - The Popcast
33:29 - Still Life by Louise Penny
34:11 - Relic by Doug Preston and Lincoln Child
36:12 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
41:59 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
43:08 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
43:23 - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Kaytee)
44:00 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
45:05 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
45:42 - Timeline by Michael Crichton (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 bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently, and as you already know, we don't shy away from those strong opinions so get ready. We are light on the |
| 0:24.8 | chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.4 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into your hands. I'm Meredith |
| 0:34.7 | Monday Schwartz a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin Texas and I |
| 0:39.3 | think libraries are just about the best places in the world. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm Katie Combe, a homeschooling mama for, living in New Mexico, |
| 0:47.0 | and Meredith can get me to read almost anything. |
| 0:49.0 | This is episode number 15 of season 3, |
| 0:52.0 | and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.7 | Meredith, I feel like you've been bossing my reading lately. |
| 0:56.0 | I've read a lot of things that you and Mindy liked too. |
| 0:59.7 | So yeah, it's kind of a little circle thing that we have going. |
| 1:02.4 | It's been fun. |
| 1:03.0 | All right, so before we get too far into this, |
| 1:05.0 | little bit of housekeeping. |
| 1:07.0 | So it is the second week of the month, |
| 1:09.0 | which means we get to take out advertising space on our own show because you know we only have one paid |
| 1:14.8 | advertiser we want to keep it that way so this week we're going to do our own ad. |
| 1:18.9 | Katie we want to talk about why some of our listeners have chosen to become supporters of the show who we call bookish friends and this is of course through |
| 1:28.1 | Patreon. What do you have for us this week as to what one of those listeners said. |
| 1:33.0 | Okay, so I, we did a patron survey and one of our patrons whose name is Kate, not related. |
| 1:38.6 | I don't just choose friends and bookish friends named Kate and Katie and Catherine. |
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