Season 3, Episode 3: Reading Therapy Sessions for Several Different Kinds of Readers
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a perfect reading spot, and a fun bonus episode for Patrons
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Current Reads: happy reads mixed with bizarre ones bouncing back and forth
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Deep Dive: reading therapy - we are making up therapy clients and then giving them books to read!
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Book Presses: fantastic YA from both of us: one pretty new and one that's almost a decade old!
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Bookish Moments:
1:50 - Mary's reading nook!
3:46 - Kaytee Reads Too Much for Patrons
Current Reads:
5:44 - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall (Mary)
8:08 - Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
9:40 - My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers (Kaytee)
9:48 - The Stacks Podcast
11:49 - Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin (Mary)
13:51 - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
15:09 - Zone One by Colson Whitehead (Kaytee)
18:23 - Magesty by Katherine McGee (Mary)
18:28 - American Royals by Katherine McGee
21:49 - We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez (Kaytee)
22:02 - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Deep Dive - Reading Therapy:
Someone Who Just Ended a Relationship with the Person Who Was "The One":
26:25 - Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
28:25 -The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
28:26 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
28:40 - One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
30:40 - After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
30:57 - Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Someone Who Moved Recently and is Having a Hard Time Making Friends:
31:37 - The Turquoise Table by Kristin Schell
32:39 - Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
33:41 - Hey Ladies: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss
Someone Who Just Lost a Job:
35:14 - All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft by Geraldine DeRuiter
36:43 - Becoming by Michelle Obama
37:58 - Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (pressed in Episode 35 of Season 2)39:16 -
Someone Who Hasn't Been on a Date in Too Long:
39:16 - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
39:59 - Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
41:08 - Playing with Matches by Hannah Orenstein
Someone Who is Reckoning with a Change in Beliefs:
42:37 - Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
43:11 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
43:13 - Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
43:46 - I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening) by Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Hollad
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
44:29 - Slay by Brittney Morris (Mary)
45:32 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
47:59 - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (Kaytee)
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram
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. |
| 0:18.0 | And you should know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. |
| 0:22.0 | We are light on their chit chat heavy on the |
| 0:24.0 | book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current |
| 0:28.3 | reads, a book is steep dive, and then we'll press books into your hands. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four living in New Mexico, |
| 0:36.0 | and sometimes it feels to me like books are better than therapy. |
| 0:40.0 | And I'm Mary Haim, a working mom of one living in Wisconsin. |
| 0:43.4 | And this summer I got a hammock just so that I could read in it. |
| 0:47.0 | This is episode number three of season three and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:51.2 | We are excited to be back in the bookish saddle. Mary your first |
| 0:54.8 | episode of season three. We're excited for that too and today we're going to |
| 0:59.1 | really lean into Mary's background and we're going to do a mini deep dive on therapy. We're going to |
| 1:04.9 | therapy. We're going to do some bibliotherapy. So each of us has chosen a few friends |
| 1:10.1 | slash patients to provide book pairings for whatever you're going through in your life or whatever those quote-unquote people are going through in their lives. |
| 1:19.0 | We're going to give them some books and for me personally I'm hoping Mary solves on my problem. |
| 1:24.0 | So there is a book for every problem. |
| 1:27.8 | I have truly believed that's the truth. |
| 1:29.2 | Agreed. |
| 1:30.5 | For sure. |
| 1:31.5 | Okay, but let's get started the way we always do, which is with our bookish moments of the week, and Mary, why don't you start us out? |
| 1:37.0 | Yes, okay, so my bookish moment of the week is, like, has been kind of gradually building over the summer but really feels like it has come to |
| 1:45.9 | culmination this week so for my birthday in like end of June my husband made me a reading nook that That was my birthday gift. And it is actually where I am sitting right now recording with you, Katie. And if you follow me on Instagram, if you are one of my Instagram friends, you will have seen this reading note come together. We have a |
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