Season 4, Episode 23: Front and Backlist Beauties + Factors That Affect Our Star Ratings
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Mindy and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: traveling through the mail and anew book light
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Current Reads: some backlist books and some new releases, some of which really surprised us!
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Deep Dive: factors that make us add and remove stars
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Book Presses: redemptive drama and a true-to-life-novel
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:28 - Currently Reading Patreon
:59 - All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) by Martha Wells
2:00 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:04 - Mindy's Instagram @gratefulforgrace
5:35 - The Lamborghini of Book Lights
5:47 - Current Reads
6:22 - Dear Bob and Sue by Matt and Karen Smith (Mindy)
8:28 - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
9:32 - CeCeRios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera (Kaytee)
9:40 - Currently Reading on Mighty Networks
10:59 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
11:51 - The Accidental Apprentice by Amanda Foody
12:46 - Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea (Mindy)
16:12 - We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
16:51 - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
18:01 - Lost and Found by Kathryn Schulz (Kaytee)
18:05 - Fabled Bookshop
18:30 - Furious Hours by Casey Cep
21:26 - In The Wild Night by Jeff Zentner
21:37 - The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (Mindy)
24:48 - Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Kaytee)
29:31 - Deep Dive: The Things that Affect our Star Ratings
29:37 - @Katie.lovesbooks on Instagram
30:02 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
33:43 - Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe
34:26 - Frankie and Bug by Gayle Foreman
34:51 - These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant
36:06 - Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
38:33 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
40:35 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
40:49 - Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
42:07 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
45:37 - Books We'd Like to Press Into Your Hands
45:42 - Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha (Mindy)
46:22 - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
47:35 - We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter (Kaytee)
47:42 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live Episode 1 w/Georgia Hunter
49:18 - Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
49:21 - The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
49:46 - Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:16.6 | read recently, and as you already know, we don't shy away from having strong opinions, |
| 0:20.8 | so be ready. |
| 0:21.8 | We're light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:25.5 | be spoiler free and ad free. |
| 0:27.6 | Thanks to the Patreon supporters. |
| 0:30.0 | Our bookish friends make the podcast happen when they spend five bucks a month on Patreon |
| 0:34.1 | and get tons of bonus content and bookish community in return. |
| 0:37.6 | Today, we'll discuss our current reads of Bookish Deep Dive, and then we'll press books |
| 0:42.0 | into your hands. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for Living in Mexico, and there are definitely outside |
| 0:47.8 | factors that affect my ratings. |
| 0:49.8 | And I'm Mindy Browse, mom to seven, homeschooling and reading in the mountains of New Mexico, |
| 0:54.0 | and I love when my husband asked to turn up the audiobook speed while we're buddy listening |
| 0:58.9 | to Murderbot. |
| 0:59.9 | This is episode number 23 of season four, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 1:03.8 | Mindy, does that mean that Paul is now just listening faster or that he's so excited |
| 1:08.1 | about Murderbot? |
| 1:09.1 | He cannot listen at regular speed. |
| 1:10.4 | He's just listening faster, and it's so great because he gave me such grief about it, |
| 1:16.1 | but I keep walking into the kitchen and he's doing some work in there whenever he has |
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