Season 5, Episode 11: The Magic of Bookish Friends + Reading with Guests Around
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mindy are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a bit of bookish magic and a pre-order wish fulfilled
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Current Reads: great books that we couldn’t wait to discuss with each other
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Deep Dive: how do we manage having guests and still making time to read?
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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2:04 - Bookish Moment of the Week
3:38 - Mindy’s Instagram @gratefulforgrace
5:04 - The Winners by Fredrik Backman
5:16 - Bookshop.org
5:36 - The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
5:53 - Booked by Kwame Alexander
5:54 - The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
6:36 - Current Reads
6:45 - Scribd
7:02 - The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (Mindy)
7:31 - Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
10:29 - Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
10:35 - Code Name Helene by Ariel Lawhon
11:08 - The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
11:37 - Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich (Kaytee)
12:52 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
12:56 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
13:24 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
17:02 - The Winners by Fredrik Backman (Mindy)
17:11 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
18:19 - Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
23:35 - @kraysbookclub on Instagram
23:36 - @jordys.book.club on Instagram
24:57 - My Body is Not A Prayer Request by Amy Kenny (Kaytee)
29:49 - True Biz by Sarah Novic
30:03 - The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
31:40 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
31:50 - The Sign for Home by Blair Fell (Mindy)
36:27 - Tumble by Celia C. Perez (Kaytee)
41:22 - Deep Dive: Reading when Guests are Visiting
43:12 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
47:39 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
54:55 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish book jacket copy and summaries would stop ruining the plot for all of us. (Mindy)
I wish that I could put The Once and Future Witches on everyone’s Fall TBR. (Kaytee)
58:05 - The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow
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Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Raiders, welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend |
| 0:15.8 | time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. And as you already know, |
| 0:20.4 | we do not shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:23.9 | We're lying on the chit chat, having the book talk and our descriptions won't always |
| 0:27.6 | be spoiler free. Today, we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll |
| 0:32.5 | visit the found. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico, and I'm thanking my |
| 0:38.3 | past self for great pre-orders. And I'm Mindy Browse, mom to seven, living with earbuds in all the |
| 0:44.2 | time while homeschooling in the mountains outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. And I think there should be a |
| 0:48.9 | special separate carry-on bag for books that doesn't count as luggage. This is episode number 11 of |
| 0:55.0 | season five, and we are so glad you're here. That's right, Mindy A, we are so glad you're here, |
| 1:00.4 | and B, you are packing for a very special trip. I am. I am. That happens to be my bookish |
| 1:06.9 | moment of the week. I'm sure you're not surprised by that at all. Well, I'm very excited to get into |
| 1:11.5 | that. But I have a quick question, which is, do you bring a lot of paper books on planes or, like, |
| 1:16.8 | why would you need a special carry-on just for books? Because I don't feel like you're a huge paper |
| 1:21.3 | reader. I'm not, but I try to do that on planes because it's the one time that I know I can sit |
| 1:26.7 | and not be interrupted. You know, I mean, one of my issues with paper books is the people here |
| 1:32.1 | wearing their responsibilities and all the interruptions, and that's why audiobooks are my |
| 1:37.0 | jam. But for a plane, especially because I'm traveling alone, it's a perfect time for me to sit |
| 1:43.9 | unerrupted with the paper book. I love that. And that actually kind of plays into our deep dive. |
| 1:48.9 | For later, we're going to talk about what it's like to read with guests in your house. How to |
| 1:53.7 | balance having people over being an extrovert, like both of us are, and meeting time to yourself |
| 1:59.9 | to read as well. So I'm excited to talk about that. But first, Mindy, I cannot wait to hear about |
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