Season 4, Episode 32: Swallowing A Tapeworm + Mood Reading Vs. Planned Reading
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 61 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: reading in the wrong format and new library discoveries
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Current Reads: books we blasted through and ones that surprised us on multiple levels
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Deep Dive: different types of readers - mood reading versus planned reading
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Book Presses: surprising books that get into your head
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1:24 - Bookish Moment of the Week
2:08 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live ep.104 w/Catherine Ryan Howard
2:11 - Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
3:03 - Fabled Bookshop
3:10 - The Harbor by Katrine Engberg
7:37 - Current Reads
8:07 - The Guide by Peter Heller (Meredith)
8:13 - The River by Peter Heller
9:27 - A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean
13:56 - Lightseekers by Femi Kayode (Kaytee)
18:07 - Parasite by Mira Grant (Meredith)
18:11 - Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
21:00 - Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton
24:00 - Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward (Kaytee)
25:06 - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
25:12 - Season 1: Episode 9
25:15 - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
27:47 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Meredith)
31:27 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
31:59 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
32:04 - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
36:26 - Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black (Kaytee)
38:09 - Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby
38:14 - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
38:19 - Gilded by Marilynne Robinson
39:41 - Deep Dive: Mood Reading vs Planned Reading
41:46 - Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black
46:09 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
49:43 - The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements
349:46 - Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth
49:50 - A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
54:34 - Books We'd Like to Press Into Your Hands
55:01 - The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones (Meredith)
57:45 - Vox by Christina Dalcher (Kaytee)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about books that we've |
| 0:18.1 | read recently and you should know we will not shy away from those strong opinions so get |
| 0:23.4 | ready. |
| 0:24.4 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.7 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.8 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into |
| 0:32.6 | your hands. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Meredith Mundy Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.8 | sometimes the best way I can honor a book is to stop reading it. |
| 0:43.6 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I love that there's |
| 0:47.9 | always something new to discover at the library. |
| 0:51.0 | This is episode number 32 of season four and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.1 | That sounds like the perfect beginning to like an after school special cake. |
| 0:58.3 | There's always something to discover at the library. |
| 1:01.1 | Let's see what Moira and Brad are discovering today. |
| 1:04.6 | Okay, Meredith, I'm excited about your butt size intro. |
| 1:08.2 | I'm going to let everybody know right at the top here that today for our deep dive we're |
| 1:12.1 | going to talk a little bit about mood reading because some people are very moody readers and |
| 1:16.7 | some people are not and I think that's interesting to discuss but before we do that we will |
| 1:22.3 | start the way we always do which is with our bookish moment of the week. |
| 1:25.9 | So I have a theme in my reading this year, you guys know that I've talked about it. |
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