Season 4, Episode 15: Long-Term Buddy Reading + Picking a Book Club Book
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
1:27 Bookish Moment of the Week
1:46 - Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent
1:52 - Bookends bookshop in Pagosa Springs Colorado
2:46 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
4:05 - The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand
4:42 - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows and Brodi Ashton
4:43 - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows and Brodi Ashton
4:57 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
5:19 - Marley by Jon Clinch
6:06 Current Reads:
6:12 - God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney (Kaytee)
6:32 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live
9:43 - A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley (Meredith)
9:52 - Book Drop subscription
13:32 - Let's Tell This Story Properly by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Kaytee) Note: In the UK, this collection is published as Manchester Happened
14:23 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
16:10 - Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson (Meredith)
16:23 - White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson
16:36 - Novel Neighbor bookshop
22:03 - Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Kaytee)
23:23 - Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
24:22 - Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake (Meredith)
25:55 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
25:56 - The Selection by Kiera Cass
25:58 - Furyborn by Claire Legrand
28:24 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
30:32 Deep Dive - What Makes a Good Book Club Book?
33:58 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
34:42 - Bookend Homeschoolers Season 2: Episode 13
36:20 - A Good Neighborhood by Therese Ann Fowler
36:50 - Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan
38:12 - How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
39:02 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
40:49 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
41:45 - The Push by Ashley Audrain
41:48 - The Need by Helen Phillips
42:53 - Roar by Ceclia Ahern
43:15 - The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
43:45 - You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
44:43 - Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
45:05 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Kaytee)
47:26 - The Power by Naomi Alderman (Meredith)
49:20 - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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 |
| 0:18.0 | read recently and as you know we don't shy away from those strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.4 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:28.1 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.5 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books into |
| 0:33.4 | your hands. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas |
| 0:38.9 | and reading seasonally makes me so happy and I'm Katie Kahn, a homeschooling mom of four |
| 0:44.8 | living in New Mexico and I'm always willing to discuss the books I've read. |
| 0:49.2 | This is episode number 15 of season four and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.2 | All right Katie, that was obviously the perfect intro because we want to let people know |
| 0:59.8 | for a deep dive today we are going to be talking about something we actually get questions |
| 1:03.5 | on quite a lot which is what are the best book club books and even more importantly I |
| 1:11.0 | think we think let's talk about what makes a great choice for a book club because I think |
| 1:17.5 | a lot of people, a lot of book clubs go wrong right there. |
| 1:21.1 | All right. |
| 1:22.3 | We're going to get into that later on in the show but first let's start out the way |
| 1:25.9 | we always do with our bookish moments of the week. |
| 1:28.7 | What have you got Katie? |
| 1:29.7 | All right. |
| 1:30.7 | Last week I mentioned that I was going out of town on a retreat from my family. |
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