Season 4, Episode 34: Forever Favorites + Books That Live in our Heads, Rent-Free
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 51 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: the change of the seasons and a young fan
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Current Reads: a few books that will stay with us forever, and some that… won't
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Deep Dive: the books that live rent-free in our heads
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Book Presses: a fairy tale retelling and a beloved brick
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1:20 - Currently Reading Patreon
3:26 - Bookish Moment of the Week
6:01 - Current Reads
6:21 - Fabled Bookshop
6:42 - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh (Meredith)
13:53 - The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers (Kaytee)
16:55 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow (Meredith)
18:40 - book darts for your own books!
20:09 - The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
22:45 - When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten (Kaytee)
24:45 - Bookshelf Thomasville subscriptions
25:19 - Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane (Meredith)
29:15 - How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon (Kaytee)
30:15 - Heavy by Kiese Laymon
30:19 - Season 3: Ep. 34
32:27 - Garcia Street Books
32:59 - Deep Dive: Books that Live Rent Free In Our Heads
34:15 - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
35:49 - So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
36:49 - Into the Wild by Jack Krakauer
37:55 - A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
37:59 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
38:37 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
39:30 - Murmur of Bees by Sophia Segovia
39:49 - Violeta by Isabel Allende
40:30 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman
40:37 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
40:38 - The One by John Marrs
40:44 - Jurassic Park by Michael Chricton
40:46 - Parasite by Mira Grant
40:57 - The Lazy Genius Way by Kenda Adachi
41:50 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
42:13 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
44:41 - Books We'd Like to Press Into Your Hands
45:02 - All the Ever Afters by Danielle Teller (Meredith)
46:58 - Wicked by Gregory Maguire
47:52 - Roots by Alex Haley (Kaytee)
49:16 - The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
49:21 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
49:38 - Shogun by James Clavell
49:39 - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.4 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.4 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:26.9 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:27.9 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into |
| 0:31.6 | your hands. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO, living in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:37.4 | And today's reads will show that I contain bookish multitudes. |
| 0:41.5 | And I'm Katie Cobb. |
| 0:42.5 | A homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and if there's such a thing as a reading |
| 0:46.2 | superhero, sign me up for that job. |
| 0:48.6 | This is episode number 34 of season four and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:52.7 | Alright, well we want to let you guys know right up at the top. |
| 0:56.4 | I just jumped in. |
| 0:57.4 | I'm just driving this episode. |
| 0:59.0 | Yep. |
| 1:00.0 | Go for it. |
| 1:01.0 | You're in the driver's seat. |
| 1:02.0 | Alright friends, we want to let you know right at the top of the show here that today |
| 1:06.1 | our deep dive is about the books that live rent-free in our heads and those could be books |
| 1:10.5 | that we really loved or maybe not. |
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