Season 3, Episode 23: Book Flights + Goals for Reading and Business
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 48 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: a Christmas gift and a reading shift
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Current Reads: we've got a few unintentional book flights in this set of six and we love that!
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Deep Dive: we are pulling back the curtain with reading goals for 2021 and business goals for 2021, and letting you know how you can help!
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Book Presses: a crowd-pleaser and productivity to start the year off right
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Bookish Moments:
1:56 - Lego Bookstore (looks to be out of stock lots of places but Lego is accepting backorders)
2:34 - Kaytee's Instagram Lego Bookstore tour
3:56 - Sarah's Bookshelves Winter Book Preview
Current Reads:
6:03 - The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (Kaytee)
6:16 - Fiction Matters' Patreon
7:18 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
9:07 - The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry (Meredith)
12:44 - The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
13:19 - Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn (Kaytee)
16:28 - The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke (Meredith)
16:36 - Diving In Podcast
19:34 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
20:08 - A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
21:10 - Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride (Kaytee)
23:39 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Meredith)
25:48 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
26:07 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
Deep Dive - Reading Intentions and Business Goals:
33:56 - Are you following us on Instagram? Can you help us reach our goal?
36:50 - Are you a Patron/Bookish Friend? Would you consider becoming one? If you are, tell us what you love or what you'd like to see over there. If you are not, what would make it worth it to you?
40:30 - Are there guests you'd love to hear from on Currently Reading? Tell us about them! Email us or tag us on Instagram or tag them on Instagram in our posts to start the conversation!
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
43:17 - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts (Kaytee)
43:54 - The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
45:13 - What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam (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
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currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com
Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast
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 won't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.5 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be |
| 0:28.1 | spoiler free. |
| 0:29.4 | 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 am |
| 0:40.1 | goal-oriented in my life and in my reading. |
| 0:44.4 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling Mama 4, living in New Mexico, and I am a book nerd of the |
| 0:49.1 | highest order. |
| 0:50.3 | This is episode number 23 of season 3, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.0 | All right, Katie, our first real episode of the year, real normal episode of the year. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm looking forward to getting back into our normal format. |
| 1:02.0 | It's been a few weeks since we've done it, so that feels really... I'm looking forward to getting back into our normal format. |
| 1:03.0 | It's been a few weeks since we've done it, so that feels really, really good. |
| 1:06.0 | All right, so we want to let everyone know right up top that we are going to be doing our |
| 1:10.3 | deep dive this week. We're going to touch on our reading goals for the year. We're going to touch on our reading goals for the |
| 1:15.4 | year. We'll find out, you know, do we even make reading goals? Is that even a good |
| 1:19.0 | idea? And we're also going to talk a little bit about some goals that we have for the |
| 1:23.3 | podcast for the year. So we're going to get a little bit behind the scenes as we |
| 1:27.8 | as we go into our deep dive this week. I'm excited about that. All right, Katie, but before we deep dive, |
| 1:34.0 | what is your bookish moment of the week this week, |
| 1:38.0 | your first one of 2021? |
| 1:39.0 | My bookish moment of the week |
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