Season 3, Episode 21: Our Last Episode of 2020 + Year-End Reading Reflections
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: the joy of passing along books, and spousal reading time
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Current Reads: comfort reads and books we loved
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Deep Dive: a reflection on our 2020 reading lives
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Book Presses: a redemption press and a dystopian pandemic
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Bookish Moments of the Week:
4:35 - The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve
Current Reads:
5:04 - The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell'Antonia (Kaytee)
9:05 - All Things Murderful with Meredith on Patreon
9:14 - The Killings at Kingfisher Hill, an Agatha Christie Novel, by Sophie Hannah (Meredith)
13:12 - The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
13:38 - The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis-Graves (Kaytee)
15:52 - BookPeople in Austin, TX
16:18 - The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes (Meredith)
19:55 - The Book of Candlelight by Ellery Adams (Kaytee)
20:13 - The Secret, Book and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
22:33 - The Suspect by Fiona Barton (Meredith)
Deep Dive - Year-End Reading Reflections:
26:03 - Patrons get the 2021 Reading Tracker - the best one yet!
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
39:17 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (Kaytee)
41:01 - The Book of M by Peng Shepherd (Meredith)
42:37 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
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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 know, we don't shy away from those strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.6 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:28.2 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.5 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I love to read |
| 0:39.8 | alone or with my handsome husband. |
| 0:42.4 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four. alone or with my handsome husband. |
| 0:42.6 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling Mama 4 |
| 0:44.8 | living in New Mexico, and I'm looking forward |
| 0:47.1 | to seeing the end of 2020. |
| 0:49.2 | This is episode number 21 of season 3, |
| 0:51.8 | and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:52.8 | Katie this is going to be our last episode of 2020 isn't it? |
| 0:56.8 | It is our last episode of 2020. |
| 0:58.9 | We'll see you all in 2021. |
| 1:00.4 | Later friends. |
| 1:01.8 | No just kidding. Actually we are going to take two weeks off. So I know you'll miss us but guys I promise we'll be back on January 11th to ring in the new year and to talk about 2021 with you. |
| 1:15.0 | Yay! |
| 1:15.8 | We are ready to say, by Felicia to 2020 in a major way. |
| 1:21.2 | So before we get into things, we want to let you guys know our deep dive today is kind of along those lines. We're going to be doing a reflection of our reading lives in 2020. What went well, what didn't go so well, and what are we hoping for in a new year. |
| 1:37.6 | So that's coming up later in our deep dive. But first, let's start out with our bookish moments of the week. |
| 1:43.6 | What have you got for us this week, Katie? |
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