Season 3, Episode 30: So Many Good Books + What We Do About Book Ratings
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 50 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 virtual book award event and an in-person meet-up
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Current Reads: mysteries and middle grade are what we're bringing today!
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Deep Dive: what do star ratings mean to us on our own reading logs as well as on the internet
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Book Presses: cozy sweetness and middle grade for March
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Bookish Moments:
2:09 - Left Coast Crime: hosts of the Lefty Awards
2:23 - All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny
Current Reads:
6:48 - Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (Meredith)
8:55 - Sad Cypress audiobook w/David Suchet
9:28 - The Survivors by Jane Harper (Kaytee)
9:52 - The Dry by Jane Harper
9:53 - Force of Nature by Jane Harper
9:56 - The Lost Man by Jane Harper
14:07 - The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips (Meredith)
15:48 - Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler (i.e. Lemony Snicket)
15:55 - The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
18:42 - Peacemaker by Joseph Bruchac (Kaytee)
20:52 - Bookshelf Thomasville
21:34 - Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Meredith)
21:47 - Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
24:39 - Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend (Kaytee)
25:00 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
25:02 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
Deep Dive - How you Rate your Reads and Do Ratings Matter:
28:24 - Goodreads
32:32 - StoryGraph
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
44:25 - The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller (Meredith)
44:36 - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
47:07 - Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt ( Katie Proctor via Kaytee)
47:20 - The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
47:25 - Read Aloud Revival w/ Sarah Mackenzie
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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. |
| 0:13.7 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.5 | read recently. |
| 0:18.5 | And as you know, we won't shy away from those strong bookish opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.3 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.6 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into |
| 0:32.4 | your hands. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Meredith Mendes Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:38.9 | and I give five stars to talking about books with you every week, Katie. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm Katie Combe, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, and a little more |
| 0:48.0 | sunshine makes me a heck of a lot happier. |
| 0:50.8 | This is episode number 30 of season three, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.4 | Oh my gosh, yes, a week of sunshine makes a really, really big difference. |
| 0:58.4 | Isn't it? |
| 0:59.4 | I give five stars to sunshine. |
| 1:01.1 | That's what I give five stars to. |
| 1:03.0 | Yes. |
| 1:04.0 | After our week of being in the teens and negative numbers, we had a high of 84 this week. |
| 1:09.2 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:10.5 | Two days we were up over into the 80s. |
| 1:12.9 | Yeah, it was flat out pool weather, which is just, that's just Texas. |
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