Season 4, Episode 7: Generational Reading + Conflicted Feelings About a Favorite Author
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Mindy are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: kids reading to parents and grandparents blowing a budget
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Current Reads: family drama and non-fiction and slapdash thrillers
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Deep Dive: Meredith and Mindy explore the feelings around a favorite author's new release
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Book Presses: a new release that needs to be on "the list" and an older true crime gem
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1:58 - The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
Bookish Moment of the Week:
2:42 - Forgotten Work by Jason Guriel
Current Reads:
6:30 - The People We Keep by Alison Larkin (Mindy)
11:29 - D (A Tale of Two Worlds) by Michael Faber (Meredith)
13:18 - Prince Caspian (Narnia book 2) by C.S. Lewis
13:35 - The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
13:51 - The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
15:25 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
16:11 - Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston
17:01 - The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Mindy)
18:40 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
21:52 - Empire of Pain by Patrick Raddon Keefe (Meredith)
26:23 - Long, Bright River by Liz Moore
30:02 - The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (Mindy)
32:24 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
34:23 - Survive the Night by Riley Sager (Meredith)
37:55 - The Popcast podcast
40:27 - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Deep Dive - Conflicted Feelings About a Favorite Author
42:58 - The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
46:50 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
52:21 - All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny
52:31 - The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
57:13 - Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
57:36 - Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
58:08 - Still Life by Louise Penny
59:49 - Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
1:00:04 - Britt Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
1:01:08 - Harry's Trees by Jon Cohen
1:01:55 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
1:03:10 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Mindy)
1:04:29 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse (Meredith)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the Curly Beauty Podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend |
| 0:15.9 | time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. And as you already |
| 0:20.2 | know, and this week more than ever, we have strong opinions, so get ready. We are lying |
| 0:26.2 | on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free, |
| 0:31.0 | no matter what. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and we'll press books |
| 0:35.8 | into your head. I'm Meredith Monechward, a mom of four, and full-time CEO, living on the |
| 0:40.7 | face of hell, or in Austin, Texas, and I honestly believe that there is no such thing as two |
| 0:48.0 | many books. And I'm Mindy Brouse, a mom of seven, living in the mountains of New Mexico, |
| 0:53.2 | and I think you should never stop buying books no matter what. So Meredith, that's funny. |
| 0:58.3 | We didn't even plan that. That is funny. This is episode number seven of season four, |
| 1:04.2 | and we're so glad you're here. Mindy, we were on the same page. We clearly are mind-melding |
| 1:10.8 | for this episode, which is going to be a really, really good thing, because we have a lot |
| 1:17.3 | to talk about, and you and I both have very much been looking forward to recording together. |
| 1:23.4 | So our deep dive today is going to be filled with fraught. It is going to be fraught, |
| 1:31.8 | fraughtly filled, because we are going to be talking about, in general, what happens |
| 1:38.6 | when your very favorite author comes out with a brand new book, and your feelings about |
| 1:44.4 | that book are complicated. I will say that we are going to be doing a deep dive within |
| 1:50.2 | the deep dive, talking about Luis Penny's new book, the 17th book in the three-pine series |
| 1:57.9 | called The Madness of Crowds. So that is going to be coming up later. Mindy and I had to |
| 2:03.3 | be the ones to talk about it together, because we read it at the same time. Mindy allowed |
| 2:08.1 | me to kind of text her in real time as I was going through it. So we need to hash out |
| 2:12.8 | our feelings about this brand new book. We'll do that later on. We have feelings. We do. |
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