Season 3, Episode 45: Come Find Me in 30 Minutes + Improving Our Reading Lives
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 45 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 new book podcast and a seasoned parenting tip
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Current Reads: an eye-opener, a creepy read, a missed opportunity, a huggable book, a new book from a favorite author, and an under-the-radar gem. We've got it all!
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Deep Dive: what could be better about your reading life?
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Book Presses: a book that shows you all the dirty laundry and one that is cinematic
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Bookish Moment of the Week:
2:06 - Book Talk, Etc Podcast
2:12 - Tina's Instagram @tbretc
2:14 - Renee's Instagram @itsbooktalk
4:09 - Currently Reading Patreon
Current Reads:
5:26 - Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc (Kaytee)
7:26 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
8:17 - The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon (Meredith)
11:21 - Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
11:32 - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
11:33 - Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
12:30 - The Last Apothecary by Sarah Penner (Kaytee)
15:35 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (Meredith)
17:18 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
18:00 - Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
18:45 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley (Kaytee)
20:57 - Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
21:46 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Meredith)
25:31 - Scribd
Deep Dive - What Could Be Better About Your Reading Life?
29:37 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
30:22 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
34:10 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman
34:20 - Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
39:05 - Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness (Kaytee)
40:11 - Jonathan Van Ness's Instagram @jvn
40:49 - The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh (Meredith)
42:24 - Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke
43:27 - Kaytee was incorrect: Megan, in fact, did NOT find casting news for The Blinds. 😒
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books of ReVread |
| 0:18.2 | recently, and you should know we don't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.5 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:28.1 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.6 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into |
| 0:33.4 | your hands. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Meredith Mundish-Worz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and |
| 0:39.6 | I love to take a fresh look at my reading life. |
| 0:42.7 | And I'm Katie Com. |
| 0:43.7 | A homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, and I'm a podcaster that listens to a lot |
| 0:48.0 | of podcasts. |
| 0:49.4 | This is episode number 45 of season three, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.2 | Alright, well that sounds interesting, it could be, that you're spending a lot of time |
| 0:57.1 | listening to other podcasts, that could be a good thing or not good thing, right? |
| 1:01.8 | Well, it definitely eats into my audio book time, so sometimes it's a bad thing. |
| 1:05.8 | Well, you know there are a lot of podcasters, you know, sort of writers will say that they |
| 1:09.5 | don't do a lot of reading while they're writing because they don't want that. |
| 1:13.2 | There are a lot of podcasters that feel the same way. |
| 1:15.4 | I don't, like you, I listen to podcasts, and I listen to other book podcasts because |
| 1:19.5 | I just think it's just too much fun not to. |
| 1:22.6 | So we'll get into that in just a little bit. |
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