Season 3, Episode 40: Friendly Get-Togethers + The Tropes We Love
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: A joint bookish moment of gatherings of Bookish Friends
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Current Reads: some YA fantasy, some murder, some short stories, some family drama. We've got it all.
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Deep Dive: the tropes we love - what is a trope and which ones draw us in?
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Book Presses: two books that we hugged at the end
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1:18 - Currently Reading Patreon
Bookish Moments:
3:38 - Fabled Bookshop
Current Reads:
6:52 - 10 Things to Tell You Episode 108 with Kaytee and Meredith.
6:55 - Lobizona by Romina Garber (Meredith)
8:46 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
9:55 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
10:00 - 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
10:47 - Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (Kaytee)
13:40 - A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell (Meredith)
14:01 - From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell (#1 in the Wexford series)
17:42 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
19:50 - The Arsonist' City by Hala Alyan (Kaytee)
19:58 - Sarah's Instagram bookedinadvance
21:17 - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
21:36 - Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
23:15 - The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett (Meredith)
23:24 - Kerry's instagram @linesiunderline
26:01 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
26:33 - The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennet
27:02 - Night at the Fiestas by Kirsten Valdez Quade (Kaytee)
27:49 - What ARE biscochitos?
Deep Dive - Tropes: Love 'Em or Leave 'Em
34:20 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
35:01 - The Black Count by Tom Reiss
36:50 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt
37:10 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
37:51 - The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Hayes
37:54 - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
37:56 - Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
39:46 - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
39:59 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman
40:27 - All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
43:09 - To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer (Meredith)
47:49 - Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah (Kaytee)
Connect With Us:
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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Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast
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 |
| 0:17.5 | read recently, and as you already know, we never shy away from strong opinions. |
| 0:22.8 | So get ready. |
| 0:23.8 | 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 |
| 0:32.5 | your hands. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:38.8 | and it turns out I'm an introvert who loves to be social with other readers. |
| 0:43.7 | And I'm Katie Cumb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, and my reading is |
| 0:47.6 | never predictable. |
| 0:49.3 | This is episode number 40 of season three, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.2 | Alright, being unpredictable is good, Katie. |
| 0:56.6 | It is a good thing. |
| 0:57.8 | And Meredith, I'm pretty sure that you and I are going to have a joint bookish moment |
| 1:01.3 | this week. |
| 1:02.3 | But before we get into that, I want to let everybody know that our deep dive today is |
| 1:06.3 | about whether certain tropes attract us to a book. |
| 1:09.8 | So if we hear that some kind of literary trope is at the center of a story, are we more |
| 1:14.3 | likely to pick it up? |
| 1:15.6 | But before we get into that, we're going to talk a little bit about Patreon because it's |
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