Season 4, Episode 45: A Mish Mash of Books + Crafting a Great Review
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 56 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 giant buddy read to be proud of and recommending specific books
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Current Reads: a mish mash of books across all genres
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Deep Dive: Meredith and Kaytee go into the specifics of writing a review and sharing it
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Book Presses: last presses of season 4! A violent but huggable book and a mystery that looks like it contains something different
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2:22 - The Happier Podcast w/ Gretchen Rubin
13:20 - Bookish Moment of the Week
3:49 - When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor S. Schumann
6:10 - The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
8:06 - Current Reads
8:22 - A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Kaytee)
8:40 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
11:38 - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill (Meredith)
13:29 - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
14:39 - The Change by Kirsten Miller
15:35 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
17:42 - Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman (Kaytee)
18:45 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20:25 - Happy At Any Cost by Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre (Meredith)
21:15 - Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
21:54 - The Gilmore Guide to Books
24:21 - Love That Story by Jonathan Van Ness (Kaytee)
24:39 - Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness
27:13 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager (Meredith)
27:40 - Survive the Night by Riley Sager
32:57 - Deep Dive: How We Craft a Review
41:56 - @lonestarwords on Instagram
43:17 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
43:19 - The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
45:56 - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
46:05 - Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
46:38 - @katieladyreads on Instagram
46:43 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
47:25 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
49:06 - Books We’d Like to Press Into Your Hands
49:31 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Kaytee)
51:45 - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan (Meredith)
53:20 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
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Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:18.2 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.5 | 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 Mendes Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO, living in Austin, Texas |
| 0:38.8 | and recommending really good books to very specific readers is a great joy of my life. |
| 0:44.8 | And I'm Katie Combe, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and my pride in |
| 0:49.3 | the community we've built is through the roof. |
| 0:52.1 | This is episode number 45 of season four and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:56.2 | Oh yes, Katie, there is so much good community feeling amongst our listeners, our bookish |
| 1:03.2 | friends. |
| 1:04.2 | I agree. |
| 1:05.2 | And I do want to acknowledge that Meredith, you are very good at recommending very specific |
| 1:08.2 | books to very specific people. |
| 1:10.2 | So I'm excited to hear more about that. |
| 1:11.8 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 1:12.8 | We're going to get to that in just a minute. |
| 1:14.2 | So we will let you know right up here at the top, because Katie it is episode 45 so I'm |
| 1:18.8 | driving. |
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