Season 5, Episode 1: Blown-Away Books + What We Did Over Summer Break
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 53 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: reporting back on homework and an exciting interview
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Current Reads: some great summer break reads from both of us, and one spicy opinion
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Deep Dive: we report back on how we spent our five weeks off and how much we missed you all!
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Book Presses: one last time - a very Kaytee book and a series starter to keep you going.
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2:42 - Currently Reading Patreon
3:40 - The Bookshelf Thomasville
4:06 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:32 - Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume
6:58 - Fabled Bookshop
7:22 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard
7:25 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
7:26 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
8:33 - Current Reads
8:44 - Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith (Kaytee)
9:56 - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
11:45 - Scorpica by G. R McCallister (Meredith)
15:27 - Circe by Madeline Miller
16:06 - Furyborn by Claire Legrand
16:31 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Kaytee)
17:06 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
17:08 - Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
20:09 - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Meredith)
22:26 - Half Price Books (They have lots of locations!)
24:12 - A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera (Kaytee)
24:27 - Cafe Con Libros
27:49 - The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger (Meredith)
29:41 - Fabled Bookshop
31:48 - The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
32:38 - Deep Dive: Our Summer Vacation Recaps
34:57 - Glass Houses by Louise Penny
37:12 - Cinder by Melissa Meyer
37:15 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
41:37 - Season 1: Episode 24
43:36 - Books We’d Like To Press Into Your Hands (For the Last Time)
43:58 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley (Kaytee)
46:04 - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
46:13 - Death at Bishop’s Keep by Robin Paige (Meredith)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:18.0 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from those strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.9 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.4 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.0 | 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 |
| 0:38.8 | and I am refreshed from our break and ready to talk about books and I'm Katie Cobb. |
| 0:43.8 | A homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I miss the lake but I'm happy to be |
| 0:48.5 | back on the mic. |
| 0:49.9 | This is episode number one of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.4 | Season five, we're here. |
| 0:57.2 | Five. |
| 0:58.2 | Gosh, that feels like a big number. |
| 1:00.8 | I know, it's not a big number but it does feel like. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, yeah, I mean it's hundreds and hundreds of episodes but it is yes. |
| 1:07.0 | We're both really glad to be back on the mic. |
| 1:09.4 | We are, so a couple of things, we're going to let you know a few things. |
| 1:13.6 | Our deep dive today, as always, the beginning of the season, we do a deep dive about what |
| 1:18.4 | we did on our summer break. |
| 1:20.5 | So what reading did we do or not do? |
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