Season 4, Episode 42: Special Guest Kendra Adachi!
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kendra Adachi is joining Meredith and Kaytee, and we are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: perfect reading weather, winning fifth grade, and bookish nerdiness
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Current Reads: the very first time this has happened in Currently Reading, there’s a double up!
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Deep Dive: we get to Lazy Genius a reading life and it’s the actual best
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Book Presses: and some non-fiction from authors we love
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1:04 - The Lazy Genius Podcast
2:01 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:34 - Currently Reading Patreon (where you get the friend map finder!)
5:28 - Current Reads
5:49 - Book Lovers by Emily Henry (Kendra AND Meredith)
12:01 - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
12:05 - Beach Read by Emily Henry
12:48 - Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart (Kaytee)
15:53 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
16:05 - The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (Kendra)
17:43 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
17:45 - Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
17:47 - Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson
19:04 - The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
20:42 - The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Meredith)
22:51 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
26:19 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt (Kaytee)
28:47 - As You Wish by Cary Elwes
30:03 - Deep Dive: The Lazy Genius Way for Reading
33:28 - The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi
38:10 - Anne Bogel Summer Reading Guide
38:46 - The Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi
40:20 - The Seven Ps: Personality, Prioritize, Proficiency(Preferences), People, Pleasure, Process, and Peace
46:33 - Lazy Genius Newsletter Signup
51:27 - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands
51:52 - Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson (Kendra)
54:22 - For the Love by Jen Hatmaker (Kaytee)
56:29 - The Lay Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi (Meredith)
1:00:45 - Liquid Index Lazy Genius Podcast Ep 261
1:01:13 - The Lazy Genius Kitchen Youtube Series
1:04:22 - @thelazygenius on Instagram
1:04:24 - thelazygeniuscollective.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:18.1 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from our strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.6 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:28.0 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.2 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll press books |
| 0:32.9 | into your hands. |
| 0:33.9 | I'm Meredith Mendes Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:39.0 | being a genius about my reading is super important to me. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm Katie Com. |
| 0:44.0 | A homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and when the world feels broken I'm glad |
| 0:48.0 | to be talking books. |
| 0:49.5 | This is episode number 42 of season four and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.3 | And today friends we are so pleased to have Kendra Adachi joining us on currently reading. |
| 1:00.6 | She is a New York Times bestselling author twice over the voice of the lazy genius podcast |
| 1:05.6 | and my personal spirit animal. |
| 1:07.6 | She helps us be geniuses about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't |
| 1:12.6 | every single week. |
| 1:13.8 | Kendra, welcome to currently reading. |
| 1:15.8 | I am so happy to be here, thanks for having me. |
| 1:19.8 | We are thrilled, we are excited, we are total fan girls. |
| 1:24.8 | From back way before you even wrote your first book because we love your podcast and everything |
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