Season 4, Episode 36: Who is Driving? + Bookstagram Pet Peeves
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 59 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: bookish laundry and thoughts on starting a book
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Current Reads: a few Indie Press List titles that blew our socks off and some additional great books
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Deep Dive: crotchety old ladies talk about their bookstagram pet peeves
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Book Presses: a smart thriller and a great YA pick
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1:30 - Bookish Moment of the Week
1:45 - Laundry Love by Patrick Richardson
1:50 - Season 4: Episode 33
3:21 - From the Front Porch podcast
6:16 - Roar by Cecilia Ahern
9:24 - Current Reads
9:35 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Meredith)
9:45 - An Unlikely Story
9:51 - Currently Reading Patreon
16:06 - How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Katyee)
21:53 - Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson (Meredith)
25:12 - The Between by Tananarive Due (Kaytee)
25:48 - Levar Burton Reads episode “The Wishing Pool”
25:52 - The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
29:05 - The Anomaly by Here Le Tellier (Meredith)
31:14 - Falling by T.J. Newman
32:21 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
35:16 - Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
36:31 - From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Kaytee)
36:39 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
40:51 - Deep Dive: Our Highs and Lows with Bookstagram
46:14 - @Lonestarreads on Instagram
47:10 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram
53:48 - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands
54:06 - The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne (Meredith)
55:30 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
55:33 - Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
56:02 - All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (Kaytee)
56:16 - Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
56:17 - Stamped (for young adults) by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
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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 the books we read |
| 0:18.0 | recently and as you know we won't shy away from those strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.7 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.4 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.9 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books |
| 0:32.7 | into your hands. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full time CEO living in Austin, Texas |
| 0:38.9 | and I love it when a book knocks me on my booty. |
| 0:43.3 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico. |
| 0:47.0 | And I love how reading can impact all aspects of my life. |
| 0:51.2 | This is episode number 36 of season four and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.8 | All right well Katie we're going to get to both of those things because I am going to talk |
| 0:58.9 | today about a book that absolutely knocked me on my booty and it's going to come towards |
| 1:03.3 | the end of our current read so make sure you guys listen all the way through. |
| 1:07.2 | All right today we are going to talk about pet peeves from bookstagram, our bookish pet |
| 1:13.7 | peeves from book from bookstagram, we're also going to talk about a few things that we actually |
| 1:17.9 | really love. |
| 1:18.9 | Right because we were getting a little crotchety I think. |
| 1:21.1 | Well I was getting a little crotchety. |
| 1:23.1 | Exactly, but there's a lot to love on bookstagram. |
| 1:25.4 | So we want to talk about that too. |
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