Season 4, Episode 22: Goals for 2022 + A Special Kind of Hell
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 50 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: home library wins and reading your shelves
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Current Reads: mystery and fantasy and parenting and romance and family drama, we're running the reading gauntlet
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Deep Dive: setting goals for 2022 in our personal, podcast, and Patreon spaces
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Book Presses: a backlist gem and a retelling of a classic
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0:30 - Currently Reading Patreon
2:00 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:15 - Thriftbooks
6:33 - Current Reads
7:00 - Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner (Meredith)
12:34 - The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson (Kaytee)
13:29 - Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM
14:24 - The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (Meredith)
17:28 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
19:08 - Social Justice Parenting by Dr. Traci Baxley (Kaytee)
22:03 - Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
22:04 - Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
22:35 - A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz (Meredith)
26:22 - The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood (Kaytee)
27:03 - Breath by James Nestor
30:01 - Deep Dive: Our Reading Goals for 2022
35:23 - Currently Reading Patreon
40:30 - Tag potential guests on our Instagram Currently Reading
43:15 - Books We'd Like to Press Into Your Hands
43:35 - Fabled Bookshop
43:56 - The Ghost Writer by John Harwood (Meredith)
45:08 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
45:41 - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
46:53 - Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Kaytee)
47:05 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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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 |
| 0:17.6 | read recently and as you know we don't shy away from those strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.6 | be spoiler free and ad free thanks to our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:32.0 | Our bookish friends make this podcast happen when they spend $5 a month on Patreon and they |
| 0:37.8 | get tons of bonus content and community in return. |
| 0:41.5 | Today we'll be discussing our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books |
| 0:45.4 | into your hands. |
| 0:46.6 | I'm Meredith Munde Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:51.7 | I am feverishly excited about my 2022 reading. |
| 0:56.1 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I could spend |
| 1:00.0 | all day talking about goals as long as I then get to work on them. |
| 1:03.8 | This is episode number 22 of season four and we're so glad you're here. |
| 1:08.2 | Okay, he wouldn't that be a special like room in hell to get sent to where you set |
| 1:14.0 | goals, but then nobody will let you do anything. |
| 1:17.2 | Wouldn't that be terrible? |
| 1:19.3 | I hate that so much, that would be so awesome. |
| 1:22.1 | Or you know what would be worse, they put you in this room and they force you to work |
| 1:26.1 | on things that are in contradiction of your goals. |
| 1:29.5 | So like they take you the opposite direction. |
| 1:31.4 | This is like the meanest thing you've ever said in your whole life. |
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