Season 4, Episode 25: Fits and Starts + Remembering What We Read
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a Kindle device hack and the Edgar awards
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Current Reads: books that whelm us and surprise us in the best ways
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Deep Dive: the different ways we interact with our books and what we are reading
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Book Presses: a verse novel and an oldie but goodie
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:30 - Currently Reading Patreon
1:55 - Bookish Moment of the Week
2:17 - Instructions on how to remove ads from you Kindle HERE
7:55 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
8:10 - The Edgar Awards
8:37 - The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
8:42 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
8:46 - Five Decembers by James Kestrel
8:57 - How Lucky by Will Leitch
9:00 - No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfield
9:55 - Current Reads
10:04 - You Got Anything Stronger? by Gabrielle Union (Kaytee)
13:57 - The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers (Meredith)
19:54 - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
20:23 - The Circle by Dave Eggers
21:24 - A Swim in a Pond and the Rain by George Saunders (Kaytee)
21:40 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
25:36 - The Kingdom by Jess Rothenberg (Meredith)
30:29 - Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan (Kaytee)
30:34 - Page and Palette
30:46 - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
31:06 - Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patty Callahan
35:44 - Book darts
37:59 - Girl 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke (Meredith)
41:51 - Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hiller
42:05 - Deep Dive: How We Interact with Our Books
43:36 - Book darts
47:39 - Season 3: Episode 5 of Currently Reading w/Roxanna
48:33 - Filofax refillable notebook
52:58 - Erin Condren highlighter pack
54:12 - Currently Reading Patreon
54:38 - A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
55:34 - Breath by James Nestor
56:25 - Books We'd Like to Press Into Your Hands
56:37 - Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (Kaytee)
58:26 - The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Meredith)
59:54 - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
1:00:03 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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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 |
| 0:17.7 | read recently, and as you know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so get |
| 0:23.5 | ready. |
| 0:24.5 | We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.8 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.2 | And at free, thanks to our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:31.7 | Those supporters who we call bookish friends make the podcast happen when they spend five |
| 0:36.1 | dollars a month on Patreon, and they get tons of bonus content in return. |
| 0:40.6 | Today, we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books |
| 0:44.4 | into your hands. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwarz, a mom of four and full-time CEO, living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:50.8 | and my reading in 2022 can best be described as FITS AND STARTS, and I'm Katie Combe. |
| 0:57.0 | A homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, and I've nicknamed my Kindle as my |
| 1:01.0 | precious. |
| 1:02.0 | This is episode number 25, a season four, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 1:06.8 | Is that your actual name, like through the Amazon devices part, is that the actual name |
| 1:10.8 | that's cool? |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, so when I say, I say, deliver to my precious. |
| 1:13.8 | Like, go ahead, like that. |
| 1:15.6 | That's good. |
| 1:16.6 | That's very good. |
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