Season 4, Episode 18: Books We Both Read + Reading Your Shelves
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Mary and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: holiday reading and a Bookish dentist visit
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Current Reads: some books that we both read that we can discuss together
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Deep Dive: how to move those books from TBR to read - reading your shelves!
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Book Presses: a delightful classic and a middle grade gem
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Season 4, Episode 18:
1:18 Bookish Moment of the Week
2:51 - The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand
3:00 - Christmas with Anne of Green and Other Holiday Stories by L.M. Montgomery
4:52 - The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Delila Harris
4:57 - Season 4: Episode 1 of Currently Reading
5:33 Current Reads:
5:43 - Amy Allen Clark - MomAdvice and Book Gang podcast
5:56 - The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg (Mary)
8:48 - This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay (Kaytee)
12:20 - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (Mary)
14:47 - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
16:49 - The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (Kaytee)
19:18 - The Brightest Star in Paris by Diana Biller (Mary)
19:27 - The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller
21:47 - The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr (Kaytee)
23:59 - Deep Dive: Reading Your Shelves
27:00 - Thriftbooks
27:01 - Savers
29:13 - Half Price Books
30:42 - The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
32:14 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
37:01 - Scribd
37:03 - Libro.fm
40:16 - Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
40:36 - The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (Mary)
42:28 - Season 1: Episode 1 of Currently Reading
42:46 - Sweep by Jonathan Auxier (Kaytee)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers, welcome to the Carly Reading Podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend |
| 0:15.6 | time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. And as you already know, |
| 0:20.2 | we do not shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:23.6 | We are light on the chitchat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.7 | be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll |
| 0:32.2 | press books into your hands. I'm Katie Kumbh, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, |
| 0:37.6 | and I am a sucker for a great book sale. And I'm Mary Heim, a working mom of one, and my deep, |
| 0:43.6 | dark secret is that I can be kind of ruthless when I am calling my bookshelves. This is episode |
| 0:49.5 | number 18 of season four, and we are so glad you're here. We are so glad you're here, and we're so |
| 0:55.3 | glad Mary is here today. We are going to have a great episode for you guys today. I want to let |
| 0:59.8 | you know right up at the top that our deep dive for this episode is about reading your shelves. A |
| 1:04.5 | lot of us are looking at the end of the year. Maybe we have a few too many books on our TBR. So how |
| 1:10.0 | do we move those books from your TBR shelf to your red shelf? But before we get started with that, |
| 1:15.8 | and all the other goodies, Mary, we're going to get started with our bookish moments. So what do you |
| 1:19.5 | have for us? Okay, Katie, I may be a little bit premature on this, but we recently started |
| 1:25.3 | letting a few wintry decorations eek their way out of our basement and up into our home. |
| 1:31.8 | And one of those categories that we let slide before Thanksgiving has been Christmas books, |
| 1:37.2 | and it has brought me so much joy. So this past weekend, we brought up a giant tub of holiday |
| 1:43.5 | kids books, and even some of my holiday themed books that I didn't get around to reading last year, |
| 1:48.8 | I just kind of snuck them in there for this season surprise. So last year, Mary, thank you so much |
| 1:54.9 | for doing that because it was just delightful. It was so much fun putting those kids books on |
| 2:00.6 | Charlotte's shelf. She's so much more aware of all of that this year. She's always been a little |
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