Season 4, Episode 14: An Hour to Myself - Finding Time to Read
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
0:00 Bite Sized Intro
1:43 - Currently Reading Patreon
5:48 Bookish Moment of the Week
7:01 - Smile by Raina Telgemeier
11:51 Current Reads:
13:09 - Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman (Meredith)
13:39 - The Herd by Andrea Bartz
15:33 - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
19:55 - Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Kaytee)
20:03 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
25:05 - Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman (Meredith)
27:10 - The Popcast podcast
30:14 - Cazadora by Romina Garber Russell (Kaytee)
30:30 - Lobizona by Romina Garber Russell
30:33 - Season 4: Episode 11
30:39 - Season 3: Episode 40
30:43 - Season 3: Episode 18
30:46 - Season 3: Episode 22
31:27 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
31:28 - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
33:01 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
33:04 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
33:21 - Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent (Meredith)
38:49 - The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede (Kaytee)
39:03 - Jessica Bearak's Instagram @tonightsbookishfeast
42:20 Deep Dive - An Hour to Myself: Finding Time to Read
47:56 - Second Generation AirPods
51:36 - Currently Reading Zazzle shop with Bookish mug "Shh I'm reading"
53:21 - Kaytee's Novel Neighbor Bookmark (we think)
53:53 - Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
54:13 - Haunted Ground by Erin Hart (Meredith)
57:35 - Shalom Sistas: Living Wholeheartedly in a Brokenhearted World by Osheta Moore (Kaytee)
58:25 - Shalom Sistas Manifesto
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 |
| 0:17.6 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having those strong opinions so |
| 0:22.8 | get ready. |
| 0:23.8 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.4 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.8 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into |
| 0:32.6 | your hands. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Meredith Mendes Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.7 | while I think raising readers can sometimes be frustrating it can also be super satisfying. |
| 0:44.7 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I rarely over |
| 0:49.0 | pack except when it comes to reading material. |
| 0:52.0 | This is episode number 14 of season four and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:57.1 | Katie, how many listeners do you think as soon as we give our bitesize intros, start |
| 1:01.2 | immediately trying to figure out what our bookish moments of the week are going to be? |
| 1:04.6 | Well, I hope it's a lot of them. |
| 1:06.0 | I think it's a fun little game we like to play. |
| 1:08.4 | Okay, so just want to let you guys know right at the top of the show here that today we're |
| 1:11.8 | doing a little reading therapy with each other. |
| 1:14.3 | We want to talk about fitting reading time into family life between kids and husbands and |
| 1:19.6 | work. |
| 1:20.6 | Oh my, how do we fit reading time in and get people to leave us alone, which is really |
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