Season 3, Episode 16: Election Reading + Endings That Make or Break a Book
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a new reading space and a bookish helper
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Current Reads: you have to read this, plus lots of murder
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Deep Dive: how an ending can change a book for us, great endings and phone-ins
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Book Presses: a book with a fantastic ending and book that will help you end 2020 well
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Bookish Moments of the Week:
3:36 - Book Bone to hold your books open
Current Reads:
4:51 - Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor (Meredith)
4:56 - Mindy's current read of this one is Season 3, Episode 7
7:08 - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Kaytee)
7:46 - Libro FM Advance Listening Copy Program
9:47 - The Warehouse by Rob Hart (Meredith)
12:08 - The Circle by Dave Eggers
12:36 - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
13:33 - Dear Justyce by Nic Stone (Kaytee)
13:36 - Dear Martin by Nic Stone
15:26 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Meredith)
17:08 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
17:11 - Jenny Colgan's books
19:19 - The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow (Kaytee)
19:20 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow
21:30 - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Deep Dive - Endings That Make or Break a Book:
31:02 - In the Woods by Tana French
32:27 - American Royals by Katherine McGee
32:57 - Majesty by Katherine McGee
33:31 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
33:34 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
34:50 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
35:00 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
35:35 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larson
36:11 - The Boys Club by Erica Katz
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
37:20 - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Meredith)
40:08 - Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski (Kaytee)
40:43 - Brene Brown with the Nagoski Sisters
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
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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 won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. We are light on the |
| 0:25.3 | chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.8 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and where I'm from, |
| 0:40.0 | reading by the pool in November is a thing. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm schooling mama for living in New Mexico. |
| 0:47.0 | And the election broke my reading this week. |
| 0:50.0 | This is episode number 16 of season 3, |
| 0:52.0 | and we're so glad you're here. Yeah it's a week it's |
| 0:55.6 | been a week Katie. Yeah we thought that it might be good to kind of stamp this |
| 1:00.7 | moment in time because things change rapidly and right now they're |
| 1:03.9 | changing a lot so today is Saturday November 7th and we have a new president-elect |
| 1:09.3 | in the United States and that might show up in our voices today or it might show up in the |
| 1:16.1 | comments we make but either way we just wanted to let people know where we're |
| 1:20.0 | at right this second so with that being said let's talk about bookish moments of the week. What's your bookish moment? |
| 1:27.2 | All right, yes, I am glad that you time stamped it because we just literally kind of got the call, got the news a couple of hours ago, so you and I are still |
| 1:35.4 | processing it. |
| 1:37.4 | And it's interesting because my bookish moment of the week I had already planned. |
| 1:41.2 | The good news is my pool is done. We've been talking for the last |
| 1:44.2 | couple of months, especially in co videos of the fact that we, Johnny and I, |
| 1:47.5 | built a pool, which has been a long and arduous process. We're grateful to do it and |
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