Season 4, Episode 35: Dream Bookshelves + Exiting the Comfort Zone
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 53 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: beautiful bookshelves and a booktuber to love
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Current Reads: we’re all over the map this week with poetry and Cozy+ and a book I should have loved but didn’t and so much more!
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Deep Dive: reading outside of our comfort zones
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Book Presses: books that we didn’t expect to love
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1:39 - Bookish Moment of the Week
6:24 - Nakia’s Hideaway on Youtube
6:30 - Nakia’s Hideaway on Instagram
8:39 - Current Reads
8:55 - The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera (Kaytee)
11:56 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
12:26 - Seasonal Work by Laura Lippman (Meredith)
14:08 - Story Bound Story via Fabled
15:57 - By the Book by Jasmine Guillory (Kaytee)
16:03 - If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy
19:19 - His and Hers by Alice Feeney (Meredith)
22:15 - Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
22:38 - Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman (Kaytee)
23:04 - The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
26:36 - Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death by Amita Murray (Meredith)
30:35 - The Maid by Nita Prose
30:44 - An Elderly Lady is Up To No Good by Helene Turston
32:15 - Deep Dive: Reading Out of Our Comfort Zones
34:18 - Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
34:21 - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
36:38 - City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
37:25 - Arya Winters and the Tiramisu of Death by Amita Murray
39:42 - Shelf Subscription Bookshelf Thomasville
39:50 - Book of the Month
39:57 - Access the Indie Press List by becoming a Patron
42:16 - Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
43:40 - An Unlikely Story
45:18 - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands
45:36 - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd (Kaytee)
48:39 - Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (Meredith)
51:10 - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | 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 won't shy away from those strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.2 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.8 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.4 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books |
| 0:33.5 | into your hands. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Meredith Munde Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:40.1 | though I may have a head cold, I still love talking about books and I'm Katie Cobb. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm schooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I didn't know crying over bookshelves |
| 0:49.7 | was a thing but it definitely is. |
| 0:52.2 | This is episode number 35 of season four and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh Katie, I know the exact shelves you're talking about and I almost cried over them. |
| 1:00.7 | So you know, it is a thing. |
| 1:03.2 | We are all reclaimed over my bookshelves. |
| 1:06.3 | Exactly. |
| 1:07.3 | All right, well we're going to hear about those. |
| 1:08.3 | I have a feeling but first we want to let you guys know that we are so happy to be back |
| 1:13.0 | from our spring break and we are very ready to talk about books this week. |
| 1:17.6 | We're going to talk in our deep dive about reading outside our comfort zone. |
| 1:22.6 | Katie, I feel like you and I have been doing that maybe a little more than we have in |
| 1:27.4 | the past. |
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