Season 3, Episode 26: I Live There Now + Books That Make Us LOL
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a mini book club and a lack of restraint
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Current Reads: fantasy is the name of the game here, along with some YA, a book pan, and a graphic novel
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Deep Dive: we are chatting about the books that made us actually laugh out loud
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Book Presses: a middle-grade treasure and a humorous work of stunt journalism
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Bookish Moments:
4:29 - Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine
4:33 - Episode 24 of Season 3 with Laura Tremaine
5:43 - Bookshop.org
Current Reads:
6:20 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (Meredith)
6:41 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
12:43 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
13:05 - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Kaytee)
13:10 - Mindy and Mary's Top 10 Minisode
14:40 - Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
16:09 - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab (Meredith)
19:29 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
22:33 - Memorial by Bryan Washington (Kaytee)
25:29 - Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy (Meredith)
25:34 - Mystery to Me Books in Madison, WI
28:56 - The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty
29:00 - The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke
29:13 - Darkwhispers (Brightstorm #2) by Vashti Hardy
29:51 - Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosch (Kaytee)
30:08 - Hyperbole and a Half
Deep Dive - Books that Make Us LOL:
33:13 - Calypso by David Sedaris
33:48 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
34:10 - Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
35:17 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
35:21 - It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (Young Readers Edition) by Trevor Noah
35:34 - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
36:04 - Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
36:06 - Bossypants by Tina Fey
36:17 - #IMomSoHard by Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley
36:49 - I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi
37:27 - The Editor by Steven Rowley
37:30 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley
37:36 - Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence
38:22 - Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat by Patricia Williams
38:44 - The Elephant in the Room by Tommy Tomlinson
39:15 - Class Mom by Lori Gelman
39:51 - An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
40:28 - Here for It by R. Eric Thomas
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
40:55 - Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy
41:07 - Winter House by Ben Guterson (Meredith)
41:59 - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
42:02 - A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)
42:05 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
43:01 - Minisode with Ben Guterson
43:17 - The Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans (Kaytee)
45:30 - Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we |
| 0:17.7 | read recently and as you already know we never shy away from those strong opinions. |
| 0:23.3 | So get ready. |
| 0:24.5 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.8 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.2 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into |
| 0:32.7 | your hands. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Meredith Mundish, Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas |
| 0:38.5 | and I think it's a good thing when books push us out of our comfort limits. |
| 0:43.6 | And I'm Katie Cumb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I am a book addict. |
| 0:49.7 | This is episode number 26 of season three and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.3 | Katie this is not news that you're a book addict. |
| 0:57.0 | I know but you know just in case anybody was confused. |
| 1:00.4 | They know what they are here for. |
| 1:02.1 | Your book addiction is a key key part of our show. |
| 1:06.3 | True. |
| 1:07.3 | Okay let's let everybody know before we get into the meat of the episode that today we are |
| 1:11.3 | going to deep dive on books that make us laugh out loud. |
| 1:14.8 | Which I am interested in talking about because I'm not sure Meredith when you always say |
| 1:19.1 | that you have no soul if you do have books that make you laugh out loud so I'm interested |
| 1:22.5 | to talk about this. |
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