Season 3, Episode 42: Buzzy Buzzy Books + Bookish Gifts for Dads
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Mary are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: reading peace for mama and a bookish husband dilemma
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Current Reads: a few of these ones have been all over Bookstagram, and I guarantee there's at least one you've never heard of
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Deep Dive: books that are perfect for the men in your life
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Book Presses: a non-fiction, self-help book and a magical school that is can't miss
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Current Reads:
9:28 - The People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Mary)
9:48 - Beach Read by Emily Henry
9:56 - A Million Junes by Emily Henry
16:49 - Fable by Adrienne Young (Meredith)
19:17 - The House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
19:32 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
20:39 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
22:01 - Namesake by Adrienne Young
22:35 - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Mary)
22:48 - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
26:20 - Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay (Meredith)
26:41 - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
31:04 - The Wreckage of my Presence by Casey Wilson (Mary)
34:42 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Meredith)
38:38 - The Martian by Andy Weir
Deep Dive - Father's Day Book Ideas
42:33 - Still Life by Louise Penny (#1 Inspector Gamache series)
43:49 - Greenwood by Michael Christie
44:29 - Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
44:41 - The Body by Stephen King (story that Stand By Me is adapted from)
45:30 - Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
46:53 - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
47:39 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
48:03 - I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
48:53 - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (First Sherlock Holmes book)
49:48 - Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
50:19 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
50:20 - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
50:30 - The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
51:12 - The Anarchist's Tool Chest by Christopher Schwarz
52:41 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
52:58 - Kindred by Octavia Butler
53:00 - Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
53:50 - The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should be Easy by Caroline Dooner (Mary)
57:40 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (Meredith)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we |
| 0:17.9 | read recently, and as you know, we never shy away from those strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.4 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:28.6 | be as foiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll |
| 0:33.2 | press books into your hands. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm Meredith Monde Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO, living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:39.8 | and I am still learning big lessons about recommending books. |
| 0:44.7 | And I'm Mary Heim, a working mom of one, and you can find me in my hammock with a book |
| 0:49.2 | all summer long. |
| 0:51.1 | This is episode number 42 of season three, and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh, Mary, I loved the story that you just did about being in your hammock with a book, |
| 1:02.1 | and there was, and you said sound on, there was like this beautiful bird song in the back |
| 1:05.8 | or the wind chime in the background. |
| 1:09.0 | It was the perfect reading spot. |
| 1:11.0 | I, that is actually going to be my bookish moment of the week this week Meredith, because |
| 1:15.8 | it is truly where I intend to be. |
| 1:18.2 | Like that sounds like lovely and cute, like a fun little clip, but no, that really is |
| 1:22.6 | where I intend to be all summer long. |
| 1:25.1 | It was the perfect reading spot. |
| 1:27.1 | All right, good. |
| 1:28.1 | Well, we will definitely dip back into that in just a second before we get too far into |
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