Season 4, Episode 13: Bookish Multitudes + Be a Library Ambassador
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 54 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: a slumpy slump and reading dates
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Current Reads: we contain bookish multitudes
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Deep Dive: how to be a Library Ambassador. Go forth and make disciples!
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Book Presses: a fairytale that's just as great on paper as on the screen and a business biography
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1:43 Bookish Moment of the Week
2:36 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
3:59 - A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
6:31 Current Reads:
6:40 - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee (Kaytee)
6:50 - Season 3: Episode 47 The Listener Press Episode
9:31 - Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie (Meredith)
13:47 - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women by Rey Terciero (Kaytee)
14:06 - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
16:27 - A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus (Meredith)
16:42 - The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
20:56 - The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
22:02 - Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine (Kaytee)
26:35 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard (Meredith)
26:41 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
31:40 Deep Dive - How to REALLY Support your Local Library
36:42 - Currently Reading Zazzle shop
39:08 - Meredith's Kindle Oasis
43:56 - Getting Started with Libby
45:53 - Hoopla Digital
45:56 - Cloud Library
46:18 Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
46:32 - Stardust by Neil Gaiman (Kaytee)
46:48 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
48:48 - Disney War by James B. Stewart (Meredith)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.7 | read recently, and you should know we never shy away from strong opinions, so you're |
| 0:23.8 | going to need to get ready. |
| 0:25.4 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:29.1 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:30.6 | We are going to discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books |
| 0:35.3 | into your hands. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Meredith Mendes Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO, living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:41.2 | and always, but especially today, I contain bookish multitudes. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm Katie Cobb. |
| 0:47.0 | A homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, and sometimes reading feels like work. |
| 0:52.8 | This is episode number 13 of season four, and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:57.5 | Oh, Katie, that's the dirty secret of the reading life that very few people talk about, |
| 1:02.4 | but we all experience it sometimes reading feels like work. |
| 1:04.9 | You're going to tell us about that a little bit later, right? |
| 1:07.0 | Yes. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, we'll let you know right here at the top that we are going to be doing our deep |
| 1:12.5 | dive today on a topic that is near and dear to Katie Nice Hearts and to so many of your |
| 1:18.7 | hearts. |
| 1:19.7 | And that is how can we, as a community, best support our libraries? |
| 1:25.5 | We have some really, really executable things that you guys can do that will make a big difference |
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