Season 3, Episode 44: Middle Grade and Mysteries + Book Polygamy
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 47 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: regular reader kids and bookish friends lavishing love
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Current Reads: mysteries abound, as does middle grade, plus some overlap between the two
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Deep Dive: how many books do you read at once?
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Book Presses: a book that shifted our perspective and a retelling of a Greek myth
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1:34 - Currently Reading Patreon
Bookish Moment of the Week:
4:51 - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
4:58 - Super Burp! (George Brown Class Clown #1) by Nancy Krulik
5:02 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Current Reads:
10:30 - Kerry's Instagram @linesiunderline
10:37 - Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu (Meredith)
13:53 - Ophie's Ghosts by Justina Ireland (Kaytee)
14:17 - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
14:18 - Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
16:41 - The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (Meredith)
18:18 - In The Woods by Tana French (Dublin Murders #1)
21:11 - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (Kaytee)
21:54 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
21:55 - Britt-Marie was Here by Fredrik Backman
21:56 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
22:11 - Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (Meredith)
22:17 - Book of the Month
24:47 - One Two Three by Laurie Frankel (Kaytee)
25:07 - This is How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Deep Dive - How We Read: Monogamous or Polygomous
32:29 - Kaytee's SoundPeats headphones
36:18 - Meredith's Kindle Oasis
36:30 - Kindle Paperwhite
37:10 - Kindle Oasis CaseBot case
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
40:13 - Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Meredith)
43:59 - Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Kaytee)
44:46 - Circe by Madeline Miller
44:47 - Lovely War by Julie Berry
44:48 - Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann
45:02 - Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
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Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend |
| 0:15.5 | time every week talking about the books that we read recently and as you know we won't |
| 0:20.2 | shy away from strong opinions so get ready. We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the |
| 0:25.6 | book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, |
| 0:30.1 | a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into your hands. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, |
| 0:34.9 | a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and even after 26 years of raising readers, |
| 0:41.2 | I still get surprised by them. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, |
| 0:47.3 | and I am a book polygamist. This is episode number 44 of season three and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.3 | Well that makes good sense Katie that you're a book polygamist and you're kind of turning me |
| 0:58.4 | into one too which is why in today's today's show we're going to talk about how many books do we |
| 1:03.6 | read at once? This is a question we've gotten from a few people and I feel like we have some big |
| 1:08.0 | answers to this question. I think it's going to be a more extensive deep dive than one. So |
| 1:17.4 | right if we like our listeners we won't have chosen a deep dive where the answer is I just |
| 1:22.1 | should be one. What about you? Yeah me too. Okay. Okay. Bye. Good times. Good |
| 1:25.9 | later. Yes that's our deep dive for later but before we get started with that and any of our |
| 1:30.4 | regular stuff we're going to do a little ad for ourselves this week and talk about Patreon. |
| 1:34.7 | And this week we really wanted to take some time to highlight the fact that when you guys tune in |
| 1:40.0 | to currently reading every week you know that you are getting whatever that timestamp is completely |
| 1:46.0 | commercial free. That whole entire 40 minutes to an hour is dedicated to books and we love being |
| 1:53.5 | able to do that for you every week but part of what we wanted to talk about is the way that happens |
| 1:57.8 | is with our patrons. We do not have to have ads every podcast has to make their own business |
| 2:02.5 | decisions. Sometimes you're talking 10 to 15 minutes of ads in a 45 minute show. We're not doing |
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