Season 4, Episode 4: Reader Whiplash + Literary Hall Passes
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 55 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: a readerly realization and a new library card
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Current Reads: weird books and wheelhouse books and a highlight of the Indie Press List
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Deep Dive: our literary hall passes - the characters and authors that make our hearts beat faster
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Book Presses: one of my favorite moments in our recording history. Welcome to press whiplash, we are glad you are here.
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Current Reads:
7:18 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
7:24 - Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall (Meredith)
13:49 - Goosebumps by R.L. Stine
14:14 - Currently Reading Patreon
14:33 - The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts (Kaytee)
14:38 - Fabled Bookshop
17:55 - When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McClain (Meredith)
19:51 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live interview w/Paula McClain
24:39 - Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (Kaytee)
26:12 - The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon
26:49 - Novel Neighbor bookshop
27:39 - Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare (Meredith)
31:26 - The Sweet Taste of Muscadines by Pamela Terry (Kaytee)
33:26 - All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenburg
Deep Dive - Literary Hall Passes
35:53 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
36:57 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
37:35 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
38:47 - Still Life by Louise Penny (Three Pines #1)
40:18 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
40:43 - Case Histories (Jackson Brodie #1) by Kate Atkinson
43:52 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
47:27 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare (Meredith)
50:48 - The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Kaytee)
51:38 - Vegetables in Underwear by Jared Chapman
53:26 - Collected Works bookstore
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | 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 never shy away from 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. |
| 0:29.2 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll press books into |
| 0:33.3 | your hands. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:39.4 | I'm a firm believer in each person's right to love the books they love. |
| 0:44.2 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I haven't made |
| 0:48.4 | out with a book but I would definitely consider it. |
| 0:51.0 | This is episode number four of season four and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh Katie, making out with book with a character from a book we both have a lot of thoughts |
| 1:00.0 | on this topic. |
| 1:01.0 | We do and author photos and I mean, so spoiler alert friends, that's our deep dive today. |
| 1:08.0 | We are going to talk about our literary hall passes, authors and characters that we maybe |
| 1:13.1 | want to smooch or that we maybe want to be best friends with and I'm excited to get |
| 1:17.5 | into it and we also have a lot to discuss from the currently reading bookish friends |
| 1:21.6 | group. |
| 1:22.6 | So they have many thoughts on this topic. |
| 1:25.0 | But first we're going to get started the way we always do, which is with our bookish |
| 1:27.8 | moments of the week, Meredith, what is bookish in your life this week? |
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