Season 4, Episode 31: A Spicy Meatball + When Backlist Gets "Cringey"
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 62 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: too busy to read and leaning into non-fiction
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Current Reads: When Meredith finished edits on this episode, she called it a spicy meatball, and that's certainly true for our current reads.
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Deep Dive: What we do about backlist books that don't have the same standards as our modern sensibilities.
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Book Presses: a few middle grade gems that you don't want to miss
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1:36 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:26 - My Life in France by Julia Child
5:29 - Current Reads
5:45 - Isaiah Dunn is my Hero by Kelly J. Baptist (Kaytee)
5:55 - Novel Neighbor Bookstore
6:57 - My Storied Year by Katie Proctor
7:42 - Anthem by Noah Hawley (Meredith)
7:54 - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
8:08 - An Unlikely Story Bookstore
12:49 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
15:15 - The Library At Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
19:06 - Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron (Kaytee)
23:02 - The Fine Print (amazon link) by Lauren Asher (Meredith)
28:41 - The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb (Kaytee)
28:57 - Fabled bookshop
32:50 - Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard (Meredith)
33:00 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
33:01 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
36:18 - Deep Dive: When Backlist Gets "Cringey"
36:26 - Holli's Instagram @shelfsisters
37:14 - Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell
39:06 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
39:42 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
41:13 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
44:02 - Forever by Judy Blume
44:35 - Are You There God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
45:44 - Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben
52:28 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
52:58 - Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
53:18 - Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
55:42 - email us at currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com
55:51 - Books We'd Like to Press Into Your Hands
56:05 - My Storied Year by Katie Proctor (Kaytee)
56:21 - Isaiah Dunn is my Hero by Kelly J. Baptist
57:28 - The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty (Meredith)
1:00:31 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.8 | read recently and as you know we will not shy away from having strong opinions, especially |
| 0:24.3 | this week. |
| 0:25.3 | Get ready. |
| 0:26.5 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:29.9 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:30.9 | Today, we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books |
| 0:35.2 | into your hands. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Meredith Mundishwarts, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and |
| 0:41.0 | sometimes I need to read a book that makes me uncomfortable. |
| 0:44.8 | And I'm Katie Komp, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, and some weeks |
| 0:49.0 | are more bookish than others. |
| 0:51.2 | This is episode number 31 of season four, and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:56.0 | So that is so true, Katie, there are some weeks where I feel like I get no reading done, |
| 1:01.5 | and then some weeks where I just feel like I'm finishing book after book after book. |
| 1:05.1 | We just need to lean into the flows and be okay with the ebbs. |
| 1:08.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.5 | All right, so let's tell you right up front that our deep dive this week is going to be |
| 1:14.2 | what we're calling when backlist gets cringy. |
| 1:18.3 | We all know that we love to read backlist books, but what happens when you're reading |
| 1:22.0 | one that really veers off of what we today might think is acceptable wording or acceptable |
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