Season 4, Episode 3: Going Noodle + Venus Flytrap Books
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 57 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: playing library and a murderful bookmark
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Current Reads: a bit silly this week, we are threatening book characters with violence and one of us throws a temper tantrum.
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Deep Dive: we are discussing the genres that pull us in and then we usually hate them, the Venus Flytrap of books
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Book Presses: a YA fantasy that flies under the radar and a sweet love story
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2:17 - Listener Survey
2:19 - Giveaway Post on InstagramÂ
2:46 - Currently Reading Patreon
3:57 - Kindle Oasis Meredith loves
4:15 - Kindle Oasis leather cover
4:32 - Bookshop.org
Bookish Moments of the Week:
5:05 - Mindy's Instagram @gratefulforgrace
6:43 - Meredith's Bookmark on Etsy
Current Reads:
10:17 - Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe (Kaytee)
11:14 - Kaytee's headphones (we don't recommend any violence with these!)
12:29 - The Stranger by Harlan Coben (Meredith)
14:35 - @katieladyreads on Instagram
17:36 - The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomom (Kaytee)
19:22 - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR
21:20 - How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (Meredith)
23:14 - The Midnight Library by Matt HaigÂ
23:32 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
24:38 - The Invisible Life of Addy LaRue by V.E. Schwab
29:51 - My Time Will Come by Ian Manuel (Kaytee)
29:59 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
30:00 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray HintonÂ
30:01 - A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K. Barnett
33:09 - The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg (Meredith)
Deep Dive - Venus Flytrap Books and Genres:
39:09 - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
39:35 - The Nest by Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney
39:35 - All This Could Be Yours by Jami AttenburgÂ
39:40 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
40:07 - We Keep the Dead Close by Beck Cooper
40:18 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse
42:58 - Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
43:01 - Slay by Brittney Morris
43:04 - Pride by Ibi Zoboi
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
48:06 - The Paper Magician by Charlie Holmberg (Kaytee)
50:06 - Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet by Charlie Holmberg
51:35 - Ellie and the Harpmaker by Hazel Prior (Meredith)
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
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend |
| 0:15.5 | time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and you should know |
| 0:19.5 | we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.1 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.6 | be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll |
| 0:31.8 | press books into your hands. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.6 | I love it when books surprise me. And I'm Katie. Here we go, you can do it, it's your name. |
| 0:46.6 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico, and I'm constantly |
| 0:51.0 | searching for the drug like high of the perfect book. This is episode number three of |
| 0:55.5 | season four, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:57.5 | Oh Katie, it is the constant, you're totally right. It's the constant search for that perfect |
| 1:04.6 | book. Yeah, it really is. |
| 1:06.6 | Oh, and we do find it sometimes and then it makes all, it makes, oh, the books that come |
| 1:12.1 | after, that's a tough, tough follow. Yeah, and then, and then you just want it even more |
| 1:16.8 | the next time, like it's, I mean, it's totally a drug. Reading is a drug, you heard it |
| 1:20.6 | here first. |
| 1:21.8 | You didn't know. You heard it a lot of places. It's fine. |
| 1:24.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:25.6 | All right. Well, so we'll let you know right here at the top that our deep dive today is |
| 1:29.4 | going to be answering the question, what is your Venus fly trap genre that genre that |
| 1:37.4 | consistently sucks you in, but then you read books in that genre and you're like, oh, it's |
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