Season 3, Episode 39: Special Guest Jamie Golden!
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Intro:
1:14 - The Popcast w/ Knox and Jamie
1:19 - Jamie Golden's Instagram
Bookish Moments:
4:31 - Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
6:23 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
Current Reads:
8:14 - Fabled Bookshop
8:17 - Faye, Faraway by Helen Fisher (Kaytee)
10:57 - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (Jamie)
11:06 - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
13:52 - Girl A by Abigail Dean (Meredith)
16:28 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
19:04 - The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton (Kaytee)
19:15 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
21:21 - Book of the Month
21:49 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
23:57 - The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan (Jamie)
28:14 - No Bad Deed by Heather Chavez (Merdith)
31:02 - Book Drop Subscription
31:33 - Sarah's Bookshelves
Deep Dive - Jamie Golden and the Popcast
37:16 - The Odyssey by Homer
38:36 - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
38:53 - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
39:03 - The Firm by John Grishom
43:05 - Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
44:07 - The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
45:39 - Netgalley
46:09 - Decider.com
46:46 - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
48:59 - Persuasion by Jane Austen
49:48 - The Shining by Stephen King
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
50:37 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Kaytee)
52:02 - Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Pre-Order link)
53:12 - Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Jamie)
53:38 - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
57:49 - Room by Emma Donoghue (Meredith)
1:00:21 - Jamie's Twitter: @jamiebgolden
1:00:22 - The Popcast on Instagram
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've |
| 0:17.6 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from those spicy takes 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. |
| 0:28.7 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Meredith Munde Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and I am |
| 0:38.6 | leaning into my weird reading moods lately. And I'm Katie Komp, a homeschooling mom of four, |
| 0:44.7 | living in New Mexico and I'm definitely here for the right reasons. This is episode number 39 |
| 0:50.0 | of season three and we're so glad you're here. And you guys today we are so excited to have with us |
| 0:56.6 | one of our bucket list guests, one of the four women that right at the start of our show, |
| 1:03.1 | Katie and I said we would absolutely love to have join us. Today we're talking with Jamie |
| 1:08.5 | Golden. Jamie is the co-host of one of my very favorite podcasts, the pop culture juggernaut that |
| 1:14.3 | is the pop cast. She's whipsmart, hilariously funny and awesome Instagram follow and such a great |
| 1:21.7 | reader. She's also my very favorite Anya Graham seven. Welcome to currently reading, Jamie. |
| 1:27.6 | Thank you so much, listen, I'm very competitive because my wing is an eight and so anytime someone's |
| 1:32.8 | like, you're my favorite seven, I'm like, that's right. That's what I like to hear. So I'm very |
| 1:38.2 | honored. And that was a beautiful introduction. I felt all the love in that. I felt all the hat tips |
| 1:42.9 | to what we do at the podcast. So thank you for that. We are very excited to have you here. |
| 1:47.5 | Well, I'm excited to be here. Listen, I'm excited to be here because I've listened to your |
| 1:51.6 | podcasts. I've listened to you guys on other podcasts that I love. And you both have like such |
| 1:57.4 | you sell books better than anybody I've ever met in terms of like when you finish describing it, |
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