Season 3, Episode 38: Eating Humble Pie + IRL and Bookish Friendships
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mindy are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: A sisterly conversation and a masking win
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Current Reads: books we are so glad we read, from beginning to end
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Deep Dive: how to make your IRL friendship bookish and how to make your bookish friendship IRL
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Book Presses: a YA book that seems to be universally beloved and a way to make friends in your neighborhood
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Bookish Moments:
2:06 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
3:40 - BlackLIT box
Current Reads:
4:59 - Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Mindy)
9:26 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
10:14 - Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh (Kaytee)
13:15 - The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai (Mindy)
13:21 - Page1 Box
13:27 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
15:44 - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
16:43 - Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams (Kaytee)
19:31 - The Lost Queen by Signe Pike (Mindy)
19:47 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
22:38 - Fabled Bookshop
24:01 - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (Kaytee)
25:38 - Blackwell's
Deep Dive - Cultivating Bookish Friendships
36:06 - Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven
36:11 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
38:34 - Lovely War by Julie Berry (Mindy)
38:38 - Season 3, Episode 13
38:43 - Mindy and Mary's Top 10 Minisode
40:30 - The Art of Neighboring by Jay Pathak and Dave Runyon (Kaytee)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.0 | read recently. |
| 0:18.7 | And as you know, we won't shy away from having spicy opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:23.4 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.5 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.9 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into |
| 0:33.2 | your hands. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom-of-four living in New Mexico, and friendships centered |
| 0:39.2 | on books make my heart happy. |
| 0:41.5 | And I'm Mindy Browse, a mom of seven, reading and hiking in the mountains of New Mexico, |
| 0:46.0 | and I think sitting alone in a restaurant with a beer in a book is a pretty freaking great |
| 0:49.7 | way to spend an evening. |
| 0:51.4 | This is episode number 38 of season three, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:56.2 | Mindy, we've been missing you. |
| 0:58.6 | I am so glad I get to record with you today. |
| 1:00.7 | Me too. |
| 1:01.6 | This is so fun. |
| 1:02.8 | We want everybody to know right at the top here that we will be talking for our deep |
| 1:07.0 | dive today about bookish friendships and in real life friendships and the intersection |
| 1:12.1 | of the two, which is, of course, something very special to Mindy and I, because as our |
| 1:17.4 | listeners now, that is a central part of our friendship. |
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