Season 3, Episode 32: A Bookish Field Trip + Streamlining Your TBR
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 51 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: attempting to help someone DNF and a tiny reading helper
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Current Reads: murder mermaids and historical fiction and hilarious non-fiction and a bookish field trip
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Deep Dive: streamlining your TBR, how to cull and narrow the field
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Book Presses: putting a few items back on your TBR
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Intro:
1:20 - 10 Things to Tell You podcast w/ Meredith and Kaytee
2:09 - Currently Reading Patreon
3:29 - Fabled Bookstore
3:49 - Currently Reading Instagram
4:15 - Currently Reading Episode 24 w/Laura Tremaine
4:17 - Currently Reading Episode 25 w/Gretchen Rubin
Bookish Moments:
5:29 - The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Current Reads:
8:17 - The Sherlockian by Graham Moore (Meredith)
9:52 - The Baker Street Irregulars
11:13 - The Holdout by Graham Moore
11:58 - How to be Black by Baratunde Thurston (Kaytee)
16:12 - Adventures in Eden: An Intimate Tour of the Private Gardens of Europe by Carolyn Mullet (Meredith)
19:28 - The Minders by John Marrs (Kaytee)
19:31 - The One by John Marrs
19:56 - The Passengers by John Marrs
22:27 - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (Meredith)
27:18 - Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis (Kaytee)
29:21 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips
Deep Dive - Streamlining your TBR:
31:00 - Episode 12 of season one
32:48 - Goodreads
37:00 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
40:09 - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
40:50 - StoryGraph
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
45:15 - Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase (Meredith)
48:07 - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Kaytee)
48:15 - Season 3, Episode 28: All the Buddy Reads + Genre Convincers
49:06 - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
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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. |
| 0:13.6 | We are bookish best friends who's been time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.3 | read recently and you should know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get |
| 0:22.5 | ready. |
| 0:23.5 | We are in mind on the chit chat, having on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:26.8 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:27.8 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into |
| 0:31.5 | your hands. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Meredith Mundy Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO, living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:37.2 | and I'll read, well, almost anything. |
| 0:41.0 | And I'm Katie Kup, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, and I'm constantly |
| 0:45.2 | trying to make my reading life more efficient. |
| 0:47.4 | This is episode number 32 of season three and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:51.8 | Meredith, almost anything. |
| 0:54.1 | Almost anything. |
| 0:55.1 | Right. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm realizing more and more about my reading habits and, you know, I want to say I'll |
| 1:00.9 | read anything, but it's almost, it's not just anything. |
| 1:03.8 | It's not actually anything. |
| 1:05.3 | Okay, before we get into the show for today, first I want to let everybody know that our |
| 1:08.8 | deep dive is going to be about streamlining your TBR. |
| 1:12.4 | How to make sure that your TBR is working for you and not against you. |
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