Season 3, Episode 33: Reckoning with Romance - Special Guest Rebekah Hoffer
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee is with special guest host Rebekah Hoffer and they are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: completing a goal and a new library trick
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Current Reads: there's a lot of love in these current reads as well as an essay collection
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Deep Dive: romance basics plus why we read it
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Book Presses: a picture book and historical romance
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Intro:
0:47 - Sorta Awesome Show w/Rebekah Hoffer
0:49 - Rebekah's Blog Simply Rebekah
Bookish Moments:
4:26 - Libro.fm
Current Reads:
5:33 - I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella (Rebekah)
7:23 - Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (Kaytee)
10:03 - The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez (Rebekah)
10:14 - The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
13:12 - Intimations by Zadie Smith (Kaytee)
17:19 - Not What I Expected by Jewel E. Ann (Rebekah)
20:59 - Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
21:34 - A Pho Love Story by Loan Le (Kaytee)
Deep Dive - All Things Romance:
25:24 - The Complete Guide to What to Read in 2019 episode on Sorta Awesome
25:35 - The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
41:43 - Vegetables in Underwear by Jared Chapman (Rebekah)
43:50 - Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore (Kaytee)
Connect With Us:
Rebekah is @simplyrebekah on Instagram
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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend |
| 0:15.5 | time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. And as you know, we do |
| 0:19.6 | not shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. We are light on the chit chat, |
| 0:24.7 | heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. We'll discuss |
| 0:28.7 | our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom-for, living in New Mexico, and books can always make me feel |
| 0:38.1 | some kind of way. I'm here today with Rebecca Hofer, who lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
| 0:43.4 | with her husband and three kids. She is a regular co-host on the sort of awesome podcast and blogs |
| 0:48.7 | at SimplyRebecca.com. Rebecca, welcome to currently reading. Thank you so much for having me, Katie. |
| 0:55.2 | Thanks for being here. This is episode number 33 of season three, and listeners, we are also so |
| 1:00.3 | glad that you are here. So today with Rebecca, we wanted to do this episode together, because as Meredith |
| 1:08.2 | has mentioned before, she has a cold dead heart and does not read romance. But I do, and Rebecca does, |
| 1:14.6 | and we have some things and some thoughts that we want to share about it. So that's going to be our |
| 1:18.8 | deep dive today. Are you excited, Rebecca? Nervous? I cannot wait. I really truly, I'm so excited |
| 1:24.2 | for this. She's so excited. I'm so glad. And just so everybody knows, if we mention any kind of |
| 1:30.0 | romance terms in our current reads today, we will absolutely get to those during the deep dive. So |
| 1:35.6 | if you're feeling a little lost or anything, don't worry, we're going to cover all of it. It'll be |
| 1:39.6 | great. But first, we're going to get started the way we always do, which is with a bookish moment |
| 1:43.9 | of the week. And Rebecca, as my guest, I would love for you to go first. Well, thank you, Katie. |
| 1:48.8 | So my bookish moment of the week is that I am celebrating meeting my reading goal for 2020, |
| 1:54.9 | and not even realizing it. For 2020 or 2021? 2020. Here's the story. Okay. I never set reading |
| 2:03.4 | goals. Okay. But after I started turning towards reading as my main form of escape in 2020, |
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