Season 3, Episode 5: A "Book Voldemort" + Special Guest Roxanna Kassam-Kara
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently, and as you already know, we don't shy away from those strong and spicy opinions so get ready. |
| 0:25.5 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler |
| 0:29.4 | free. |
| 0:30.4 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:39.5 | and I absolutely love making new bookish friends. |
| 0:43.8 | And I'm Katie Com, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, and I love wearing my love |
| 0:48.0 | of reading on my sleeve. |
| 0:49.9 | This is episode number five of season three, and we're so glad you're here. Today guys we |
| 0:54.4 | have a special guest we are joined by our bookish friend and listener Roxanna |
| 0:59.3 | Casam Kara. Roxanna lives in Toronto with her husband, son, and |
| 1:03.1 | and daughter and works full time in charity marketing. |
| 1:06.1 | She is passionate about own voices authors. |
| 1:09.1 | Roxanna, welcome to currently reading. |
| 1:11.9 | Thank you, Katie. I am so excited to be here. |
| 1:15.0 | All right absolutely we are super excited and then later on in the episode in our |
| 1:19.6 | mini deep dive will be deep diving a little more on you and what kind of reader you are and what's made you into the reader that you are today and other interesting stuff. |
| 1:27.0 | So we're going to get to deep dive deeper into Roxanna later on. |
| 1:31.0 | But first, let's start the way we always do with our bookish moment of the week. |
| 1:35.3 | Right, Santa do you want to go first? Sure, I'll go. So I am actually really excited this week because I got to read, started reading a book I really |
| 1:46.0 | loved to my daughter. |
| 1:47.3 | It's called There's a Rainbow in my closet by Patty Strand. |
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