Season 5, Episode 16: Mind-Blowing Books + Finding Your Nonfiction Fit
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: snow day reading + scheduled reading time
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Current Reads: books that blew us away
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Deep Dive: finding your nonfiction fit
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:32 - Bookish Moment of the Week
6:09 - Current Reads
6:16 - A Place Called Home by David Ambroz (Kaytee)
11:20 - Death and Croissants by Ian Moore (Meredith)
12:36 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
15:04 - Blackwell’s UK
15:29 - Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth (Kaytee)
15:37 - The Novel Neighbor
16:45 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard
19:19 - My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (Meredith)
22:58 - The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill (Kaytee)
23:14 - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
23:20 - When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
27:24 - Bookmarks
27:47 - Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente (Meredith)
30:45 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
31:05 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
32:44 - Fable App
34:54 - Finding Your Nonfiction Niche
36:59 - CR Season 4: Episode 24
38:32 - A Place Called Home by David Ambroz
38:49 - Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
38:56 - Down and Out in Paradise by Charles Leerhsen
39:16 - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
39:24 - You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe
40:13 - Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Carol Leonnig
40:33 - The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
41:12 - Happy At Any Cost by Kirsten Grind and Katherine Sayre
44:13 - The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
44:25 - The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
45:04 - Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
46:00 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay
46:12 - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
46:16 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
46:19 - The Black Count by Tom Reiss
46:37 - The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
47:39 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish to let everyone know about Everyday Reading. (Kaytee)
47:55 - Everyday Reading blog
48:09 - Everyday Reading Instagram
48:22 - Everyday Reading Christmas Reading Advent Calendar
I wish everyone would jump on the ASMR bandwagon. (Meredith)
0:33 - The Vault of Ambience on Youtube
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | 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 having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.4 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:28.0 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.2 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas |
| 0:39.2 | and I'm finding my reading momentum again and it feels so good. |
| 0:43.9 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and waking up to a |
| 0:47.8 | snow day makes for a perfect reading experience. |
| 0:51.2 | This is episode number 16 of season five and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.7 | Oh, Katie, a snow day sounds so nice. |
| 1:00.2 | Yes, it's so exciting. |
| 1:02.0 | We love our first snow day of the year. |
| 1:04.6 | Oh, that is really, really fun. |
| 1:06.0 | Okay, all right. |
| 1:06.6 | We're going to let you guys know that we are going to be doing a deep dive later on in |
| 1:11.3 | this episode because it is November. |
| 1:13.7 | We're going to do a deep dive into how can you find your nonfiction fit, right? |
| 1:20.2 | It's not fiction, November. |
| 1:21.8 | You might want to take part, but you might not have found that sweet spot for yourself. |
| 1:25.3 | So we're going to see if we can poke around a little bit and help you. |
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