Season 3, Episode 41: Buying Books and Reading Books are Two Different Hobbies
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 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: a third copy of a book one loves, and a summer reading guide we both adore
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Current Reads: some books we enjoyed that we don't know to whom we should recommend
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Deep Dive: a defense of book buying, and book organizing, and how it's different from book reading
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Book Presses: a great Pride Month (June in the US) pick and a beach read that will chill you to the bone
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Business Corner:
2:31 - Send us your "Listener Press" by June 1st: an audio file emailed to us at currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com with the title, author, a spoiler-free description, and why you love it!
3:14 - Send us your Ask Us Anything questions by June 1st! Email those to currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com. They can be for all four of us, or directed to any of the four of us, because Meredith, Kaytee, Mindy, and Mary will all be part of that episode!
Bookish Moments:
4:40 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
5:53 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live - Summer Reading Guide
6:27 - Sarah's Summer Reading Guide Episode 83
Current Reads:
7:52 - Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Kaytee)
9:49 - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
10:32 - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Meredith)
13:09 - Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
13:11 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King
13:22 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
15:32 - Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri (Kaytee)
15:41 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
18:08 - The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (Meredith)
23:48 - A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (Kaytee)
25:10 - Circe by Madeline Miller
25:11 - Song for Achilles by Madeline Miller
27:34 - The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth (Meredith)
28:14 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
28:31 - Sally Hepworth's Instagram @sallyhepworth
Deep Dive - We are INTO Books and Reading
37:00 - Storygraph
37:02 - Goodreads
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
40:19 - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (Kaytee)
40:46 - Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
42:50 - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Meredith)
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram
currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com
Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.4 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are light on the chit chat, having 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 Monday Schwarz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and summer |
| 0:39.1 | reading is my favorite. And I'm Katie Kahn, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, |
| 0:44.8 | and I will buy all the books I want to. Thank you very much. This is episode number 41 |
| 0:50.2 | of season three and we're so glad you're here. You know, I just bought myself a new t-shirt that says |
| 0:55.7 | if it's books it's not hoarding. Perfect. And given my predilection for tidiness it's absolutely |
| 1:04.6 | true. I just went to home goods and bought another one of those rolling carts. Johnny was like |
| 1:10.7 | really? Really? Because when you bought the last rolling cart that was supposed to be for the overflow |
| 1:16.0 | books. I'm like, well, my overflow overflow. Overflow? All right. So before we get into our episode, |
| 1:25.6 | we are going to tell you a couple of things. We're going to tell you that later on in the show, |
| 1:29.4 | our deep dive is going to be about the fact that I think it is true, Katie, and I think you agree |
| 1:34.2 | with me reading books and buying books slash organizing your books and your reading. Those are |
| 1:41.9 | two separate hobbies. This is the deep dive we're going to get into later on today. Those |
| 1:47.1 | things are not the same and they are in some ways equally enjoyable. Oh yeah. So we're going to |
| 1:52.6 | get in, yes, that's our deep dive later on today. But before that, we want to get into just a |
| 1:57.9 | little bit of podcast business here, Katie. What have you got for us today? Yes, in business corner. |
| 2:03.4 | Special announcement for you guys today. And that is that the dark week is coming up as one of our |
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