Season 4, Episode 26: Finding Readers for Authors + Bookish Bucket Lists
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
-
Bookish Moments: reader profiles on Instagram and connecting authors and readers
-
Current Reads: we are revisiting some authors that we've read before, sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
-
Deep Dive: the items we have on our bookish bucket lists. What do we want to "achieve"?
-
Book Presses: an oldie but goodie mystery and a graphic novel
As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!
New: we are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!
*Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you'd prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your dishwasher detergent!) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*
.
.
.
.
:30 - Currently Reading Patreon
1:55 - Bookish Moment of the Week
8:50 - Bear Necessity by James Gould-Bourn
11:11 - Current Reads
11:36 - The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Meredith)
13:38 - Roar by Cecelia Ahern
15:01 - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
15:50 - Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (Kaytee)
15:57 - Season 3: Episode 44
17:19 - Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
19:38 - Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian (Meredith)
21:10 - The Shelf Subscription from Bookshelf Thomasville
22:34 - The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
24:12 - Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult (Kaytee)
27:34 - Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
28:23 - The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman (Meredith)
28:41 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
33:39 - The Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden (Kaytee)
34:13 - Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
37:02 - Deep Dive: Our Bookish Bucket Lists
38:31 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
39:51 - Parnassus Books
40:03 - An Unlikely Story bookshop
40:10 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
40:22 - Powell's Books
40:28 - Strand Bookstore
40:42 - Fabled Bookshop
41:07 - BookPeople
45:50 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
46:19 - The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili
46:37 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
46:38 - Roots by Alex Haley
46:50 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
47:38 - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
49:20 - Blackwell's bookshop
51:01 - Books We'd Like to Press Into Your Hands
51:44 - Original Sin by P.D. James (Meredith)
54:16 - Cover Her Face by P.D. James
54:32 - The Flight of the Puffin by Ann Braden
54:35 - New Kid by Jerry Craft (Kaytee)
55:05 - El Deafo by Cece Bell
55:19 - Class Act by Jerry Craft
Connect With Us:
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram
currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com
Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcast
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently 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 know we won't |
| 0:20.4 | shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are light on the chit chat, have you on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.4 | be spoiler free and our episodes are always out free thanks to our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:31.7 | Those supporters who we call bookish friends make the podcast happen when they spend five |
| 0:35.8 | dollars a month on Patreon and they get tons of bonus content in return. |
| 0:40.2 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books |
| 0:44.2 | into your hand. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:50.0 | I think a key to reading success is knowing yourself as a reader. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'm Katie Komp, a home schooling mom of four living in New Mexico and helping authors find |
| 0:58.7 | their readers makes my heart sing. This is episode number 26 of season four and we're so glad you're |
| 1:04.6 | here. |
| 1:05.4 | Oh Katie that is one of the most favorite things that we do when we hear from an author. |
| 1:11.7 | That makes us so happy. |
| 1:13.7 | Yes it's been, it's been an unexpected delight about being on this podcast for sure. |
| 1:19.3 | Alright friends so just so you know before we get started today our deep dive today is about |
| 1:24.0 | our bookish bucket list which we talked about baskets recently and now buckets we're just doing |
| 1:29.6 | all the bees lately all the bees but we want to talk about what kind of things do we want to |
| 1:34.0 | accomplish in our bookish lives before we kick the bucket which is what a bookish bucket list |
| 1:38.9 | would be but before that we do that we're going to talk about we're going to do the ad we do |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Meredith Schwartz, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Meredith Schwartz and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.