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The Currently Reading Podcast

Season 4, Episode 14: An Hour to Myself - Finding Time to Read

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.61.8K 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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