Season 3, Episode 8: A Preview of "All Things Murderful" + Books We've Changed Our Minds About
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a new Patreon segment and a childhood favorite
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Current Reads: Six left turns. It's a broad swath of books today!
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Deep Dive: are you "allowed" to change your opinion on a book after you've read it?
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Book Presses: THE BOOK we've all been waiting for and sci-fi trilogy that's just fun
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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0:59 - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
1:08 - New York by Edward Rutherford
1:28 - London by Edward Rutherford
1:52 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Patreon - We Sponsor Ourselves:
2:09 - Currently Reading on Patreon
Bookish Moments:
3:30 - All Things Murderful with Meredith on Patreon
6:11 - A Likely Story in Colorado Springs, CO
6:41 - The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Current Reads:
8:54 - A Quiet Life in the Country by T.E. Kinsey (Meredith)
12:08 - Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (Kaytee)
14:47 - The Troop by Nick Cutter (Meredith)
14:52 - @booknernative on Instagram
16:06 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
16:07 - Twenty Eight Days Later by Michael Nelson
16:57 - FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
20:06 - The Switch by Beth O'Leary (Kaytee)
20:14 - The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
25:14 - The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street by Lauren Oliver (Meredith)
26:54 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
26:55 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
27:56 - After the End by Clare Mackintosh (Kaytee)
28:02 - I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
31:12 - Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Deep Dive - Changing Your Mind About a Book:
32:56 - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (Racism in Eleanor and Park)
33:57 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
35:49 - Articles about JK Rowling's Twitter Rants
36:44 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Hi, this is like a retraction in the newspaper. I, Kaytee, realize that the comments I made about JK Rowling were very personal. I would probably phrase them differently now, having seen how they were received. I still feel very strongly about her stance and her very public opinions, but I would like to say that her opinions are garbage, not she as a person. I humbly accept this correction from our many listeners who have pointed it out as going too far. The audio is what it is, but please consider this my public statement regarding this matter.
39:33 - Greenglass House by Kate Midford
40:23 - The Need by Helen Phillips
41:03 - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
42:03 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
43:12 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (Meredith)
46:11 - Serial Reader App
47:33 - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Nuevel (Kaytee)
49:16 - Waking Gods #2 and Only Human #3 by Sylvain Nuevel
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 won't shy away from those strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.4 | be spoiler-free. |
| 0:28.4 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into your hands. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mama four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:38.0 | and the cooler weather is already changing my reading moods. |
| 0:42.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four. already changing my reading moods. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for, |
| 0:45.2 | recording from Gilbert, Arizona. |
| 0:47.2 | And I love binging a big audiobook on a road trip. |
| 0:50.8 | This is episode number eight of season three, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.7 | Ooh, what did you listen to, Katie? I finished transcendent kingdom on the way here and then I switched to my brick for the month which is actually this really exciting |
| 1:07.1 | I mean not exciting book but it's New York by Edward Rutherford but it's 37 hours so now I know I don't have to pick another one. |
| 1:15.1 | Instead of being like, oh, I picked another one now, |
| 1:17.1 | should I pull over and pick something else? |
| 1:18.9 | Like, I just get to listen for hours. |
| 1:23.0 | Anything by Edward Rutherford is going to be good for, you know, we could have, like I listened to London back in the day and it's just occurring to me. |
| 1:32.0 | We could have done that on our drive from California to Texas and we never would have had to change we could have listened to just the one book. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, it's so long it's really great. They're good though. I like I like his work. Yeah, it's feeling very I'm only I'm only 10 hours into it right now |
| 1:47.9 | Which means I could have finished an entire other book by this point, but it's feeling very pillars of the earth but set around the American |
| 1:54.9 | Revolution to me. Right, right. So, he, yes, that Kinfallett connection rings very true to me. |
| 2:01.2 | Yeah, it's been fun. Well, it'll probably be a current read someday so let's get into the show a little bit. This week, Meredith, we are taking out our own ad for ourselves about our Patreon and we actually went to our patrons and said |
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