Season 3, Episode 6: Are you "Book Bossy"? We are!
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: reading a giant book and a giant buddy read
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Current Reads: evil and time travel and middle grade and memoir, we're showing off our range!
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Deep Dive: being book bossy!
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Book Presses: we are sharing some comfort if your brain needs sweetness and light
As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!
*Please note that all book titles linked below are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*
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Book of the Month - sponsor: (these are Goodreads links as we hope you'll try book of the month if you're interested in these titles!)
2:32 - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
2:35 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
2:52 - Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
2:55 - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
3:02 - Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
3:57 - Use our link and the code CURRENTLYREADING to get your first book for $9.99
Bookish Moments:
5:00 - Savoring a giant book
5:46 - I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening) by Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland (email us or DM Kaytee on Instagram if you want the event invite)
Current Reads:
7:34 - Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (Meredith)
7:47 - @katieladyreads on Instagram
10:35 - The Bolds by Julian Clary (Kaytee)
13:30 - Kindred by Octavia Butler (Meredith)
17:42 - The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson (Kaytee)
19:09 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
19:11 - FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
21:45 - The Novel Neighbor Bookstore
22:01 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
22:09 - Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim (Meredith)
26:14 - The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper (Kaytee)
Deep Dive - Being Book Bossy:
37:30 - Listener Press Episode 48 of Season 2
40:04 - Read Aloud Revival Podcast
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
41:35 - The Vintage Teacup Club by Vanessa Greene (Meredith)
43:24 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Kaytee)
44:36 - Anne of Green Gables Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden
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
Transcript
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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 know, we don't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, |
| 0:26.4 | and our descriptions will always be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.9 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, |
| 0:31.2 | and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:38.0 | And even when I get into a moody state, I'm so glad that books can bring me out of it. |
| 0:45.0 | And I'm Katie Combe, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, and I know exactly what you should read today. |
| 0:52.0 | This is episode number six of season three and |
| 0:54.7 | we're so glad you're here. All right, also you know what it is. This is our first |
| 0:59.7 | episode in September Katie, which means everybody knows we are going to talk about Book of the Month, |
| 1:06.4 | which we love to do for all kinds of reasons because amazing books and this month has an amazing lineup. I am going to be |
| 1:16.1 | super transparent with you guys and I'm going to tell you what is absolutely true |
| 1:20.6 | which is that I have been I've been doing two and three books in my |
| 1:26.0 | orders from Book of the Month for like six months in a row and I already knew |
| 1:31.2 | that this was going to be a month that I just needed to skip because I have got to read some of the books. |
| 1:37.2 | I've read several of them, but I have so many more Book of the Month books. |
| 1:40.3 | My shelf on my books shelf that I allot to it is completely packed. |
| 1:44.7 | So I'm going to go ahead and skip this month, but I wanted to say that rather than kind of |
| 1:49.9 | like pretending I was going to do something different because it's really important that everyone |
| 1:54.4 | remember this is one of my favorite things about Book of the Month. |
| 1:58.3 | If you need to skip for whatever reason, whether you don't love the choices, nothing's calling to you, or you need a little extra room in your budget, or you need a little extra room on your bookshelf, you can skip and you don't pay anything. |
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