Season 4, Episode 11: Recording Together + Lending Books to Friends and Family
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 56 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: being together in person!
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Current Reads: Books in the zeitgeist and one that's perfect for October
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Deep Dive: are we precious about lending books out to others? do we have rules and regulations?
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Book Presses: books from the keeper shelf
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Current Reads:
7:03 - Who is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews (Kaytee)
11:10 - Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Meredith)
13:21 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
13:35 - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
17:30 - Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Kaytee)
22:16 - The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig (Meredith)
26:48 - Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez (Kaytee)
27:01 - The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
27:12 - The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
30:33 - No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson (Meredith)
36:13 - Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Deep Dive - Lending Books From Your Shelves
39:45 - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
42:26 - Greenwood by Michael Christie
42:53 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
43:14 - The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield
44:25 - NYT Article about Otto Penzler (who was actually the founder and proprietor of Mysterious Bookshop in Manhattan)
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
47:35 - Lobizona by Romina Garber (Kaytee)
47:43 - Bookshelf Thomasville
47:55 - Cazadora by Romina Garber
50:34 - Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (Meredith)
53:58 - The Stand by Stephen King
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Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.7 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong but constructive |
| 0:23.2 | opinions. |
| 0:24.6 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:28.3 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.7 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into |
| 0:33.3 | your hands. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Meredith Munde Schwartz, a Mama 4 and full time CEO, living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:39.6 | I'm realizing that podcasting is even more fun when you can reach out and touch your podcast |
| 0:44.6 | partner. |
| 0:45.6 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling Mama 4 coming to you live from Meredith's house in |
| 0:50.1 | Austin. |
| 0:51.1 | And I love pressing books into readers' hands both literally and figuratively. |
| 0:56.7 | This is episode number 11 of season 4 and we are so glad you're here and we're so |
| 1:01.2 | glad to be here. |
| 1:02.2 | Yes, Katie, I am so glad that you are here. |
| 1:05.9 | We are so excited to have gotten to spend some time together which is only the third time |
| 1:12.2 | ever that we've gotten to be together in person. |
| 1:15.0 | So this has been really, really fun. |
| 1:16.4 | All right, so we're going to talk a little bit more about that as we get into the show |
| 1:19.6 | but we want to let you guys know right at the top that our deep dive today is going to |
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