Season 5, Episode 13: Reading Genes + Books That Should Blow Up Bookstagram
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 61 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: reading genetics and scary saturation
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Current Reads: backlist gems and TBR surprises and bookish serendipity
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Deep Dive: we visit The Wayback Machine to give you books we think would go viral on Bookstagram and BookTok if they came out today
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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2:12 - Bookish Moment of the Week
6:18 - Current Reads
6:51 - Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (Kaytee)
7:34 - Check Please by Ngozi Ukazu
7:50 - The Sorta Awesome Podcast
10:14 - Read-Aloud Revival
11:07 - Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Meredith)
13:33 - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
17:18 - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Kaytee)
17:27 - CR Season 3: Episode 47 - The Listener Press
17:31 - The Twin Paradox by Charles Wachter
21:25 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (Meredith)
25:55 - Matrix by Lauren Goff
30:20 - A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf (Kaytee)
33:17 - Daphne by Josh Malerman
34:33 - Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates (Meredith)
39:11 - From Below by Darcy Coates
39:54 - Deep Dive: Backlist Books The Would Go Viral Today
40:47 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
41:20 - The Selection by Kiera Cass
41:35 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
43:01 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram
43:04 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge
44:40 - The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
44:56 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
45:47 - Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
46:48 - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
48:12 - In the Woods by Tana French
48:58 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
49:45 - The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
51:31 - The Villa by Nora Roberts
52:38 - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
53:37 - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
53:49 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
53:50 - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
54:31 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish every reader would keep a simple reading log. (Kaytee)
I wish November and December could get here quicker for some highly anticipated releases. (Meredith)
57:18 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
57:41 - Three Pines Series Trailer
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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 never shy away from those strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.1 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.7 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.7 | Today, we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the |
| 0:33.2 | fountain. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:39.0 | and I am done scaring the TT out of myself for the season. |
| 0:43.8 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in Mexico, and both my love of |
| 0:48.4 | reading and my nerdy ass are genetic. |
| 0:51.6 | This is episode number 13 of season five, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.8 | Katie, speaking of genetics, do you know that your dad friended me on Facebook, and |
| 0:59.2 | I about died of joy? |
| 1:01.2 | Really? |
| 1:02.2 | Yes. |
| 1:03.2 | Well, you started friending my friends, and your daughter friended me, and I died of joy. |
| 1:08.2 | So I feel like we're all just one big happy family here now. |
| 1:11.2 | Right. |
| 1:12.2 | I needed to be friends. |
| 1:13.2 | I needed to be friends with your dad, but I was too nervous to ask, and I was so, so happy. |
| 1:18.8 | So you have great parents. |
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