Season 3, Episode 34: The Reading Playground + Genres We Shy Away From
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 48 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: immersive reading and a bookish gift
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Current Reads: we are all over the playground of reading taste
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Deep Dive: we discuss which genres we shy away from
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Book Presses: a few memoirs for those of you who shy away (ahem, Meredith)
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Intro:
1:51 - Become a Patron
2:15 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
2:34 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Bookish Moments:
3:41 - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
3:54 - Let's Make Art
7:03 - Yes Yes Cookies (seven layer magic bars here in the U.S)
7:47 - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis
Current Reads:
8:34 - Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy by Rachel Ricketts (Kaytee)
11:02 - Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies by J.B. West (Meredith)
11:38 - Heather's Bookstagram
15:24 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Kaytee)
15:29 - The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
17:57 - We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly (Meredith)
21:42 - 10 Things to Tell You Episode w/Meredith and Kaytee
21:51 - Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (Kaytee)
24:54 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (Meredith)
25:03 - Fabled Bookshop
Deep Dive - Genres Outside Our Playground
32:21 - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
34:28 - A Promise Land by Barack Obama
35:19 - Bad Blood by Jon Carreyrou
40:51 - Genre Convincer episode with Mary Heim
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
43:15 - Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (Kaytee)
44:45 - Heartland by Sarah Smarsh (Meredith)
44:53 - Season One, Episode 14
46:12 - Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
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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. |
| 0:13.8 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we |
| 0:17.5 | read recently and as you know we don't shy away from those strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.2 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.7 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.3 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into |
| 0:32.8 | your hands. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Meredith Munde Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:39.1 | surprise bookish gifts are my absolute favorite. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I've got a big |
| 0:47.0 | giant wheelhouse that I'm happy to play in. |
| 0:49.7 | This is episode number 34 of season three and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.6 | You do have a big wheelhouse, Katie and that we all benefit from that hugely I think. |
| 0:58.6 | Well it's like a playground. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, there you go. |
| 1:01.8 | That's what we should call it instead of calling books in our wheelhouse we should say they're |
| 1:05.2 | in our playground. |
| 1:06.2 | I like that idea. |
| 1:07.2 | Okay. |
| 1:08.2 | That's good. |
| 1:09.2 | That's what we do. |
| 1:10.2 | We just switch up the vernacular whenever we feel like it. |
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