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 know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions so especially this week get ready.

We are light on the chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always

be spoiler free no matter what.

We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive,

and then we're gonna press books into your hands.

I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four

and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I love it when the

metaphorical sky is clear, and I can read again.

And I'm Mindy Brows, a mom of seven, reading and hiking in the mountains of New Mexico and I think hate

reading is a real thing and I'm here for it. This is episode 17 of season 3 and

we are so glad you're here. All right Mindy we are so glad to be here. We have a lot to talk about today.

We do. We've been looking forward to this. I've been anticipating this chat for a while.

Yes, so let us tell you guys that later on we're going to do a deep dive into kind of big book awards and how we feel about the books that are awarded these big book awards.

So we're going to get into that a little bit later, but for now let's start the episode the way we always do

by talking about our bookish moments of the week.

Mindy what do you have for us this week?

My bookish moment this week, believe it or not, was reading a book about a child being

kidnapped, which doesn't sound like that should be a bookish moment but because it was during the election week

Which lasted you know more than a day like quite a few days, and it was so stressful. I buddy read what she knew with Liz

Hine, one of our currently reading bookish friends, and it was the exact right book medicine that I needed for the week.

Kept me engaged, it took me away.

Plus I got to chit chat with a friend about a book that we were both reading.

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