Season 5, Episode 19: Happy Surprises + Bookish Vacations
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 58 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: a bookish car surprise and a triumphal return
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Current Reads: all the great stuff we’ve been reading lately
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Deep Dive: the deets on reading vacations!
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:53 - Currently Reading Patreon
4:26 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:57 - Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
8:11 - Current Reads
8:17 - Scribd
8:29 - What Can Be Saved by Liese O’Halloran Schwartz (Mindy)
12:41 - The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan (Meredith)
14:50 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
16:24 - The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Mindy)
19:13 - Garden of Lamentations by Deborah Crombie (Meredith)
23:22 - A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie
24:02 - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Mindy)
24:13 - Denisereads75 on Instagram
24:17 - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
26:02 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
26:51 - Gilded by Marissa Meyer (Meredith)
28:22 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
30:17 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
30:46 - Cinder by Marissa Meyer
31:27 - Cursed by Marissa Meyer
32:37 - Deep Dive: The Ins and Outs of Bookish Vacations
32:49 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
33:41 - The Winners by Fredrik Backman
40:34 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
49:46 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish I could find a series that combined police procedural and courtroom drama like Law and Order. (Mindy)
50:49 - Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
50:52 - The Defense by Steve Cavanagh (Eddie Flynn #1)
50:58 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
I wish that small, concentrated book retreats happen in 2023. (Meredith)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we |
| 0:17.7 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.8 | We're light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.9 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.7 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, have a bookish deep dive, and then we're going |
| 0:33.9 | to visit the fountain. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:40.5 | and happiness for me is a relaxing trip to the library. |
| 0:44.0 | And I'm Mindy Browse, mom to seven, living in the mountains of New Mexico in my favorite |
| 0:49.3 | days or spent with people I love, real or fictional. |
| 0:53.4 | This is episode number 19 of season five and we're so glad y'all are here. |
| 0:58.0 | Hey Mindy, so yeah, sometimes fictional people are easier to spend time around than |
| 1:02.4 | the real people that we love. |
| 1:04.0 | Girl, I'll create, yeah, I think you're absolutely right. |
| 1:08.0 | At this time of year for sure, right? |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah, I see. |
| 1:10.7 | Alright, well Mindy, I'm always so happy to be able to record with you and we are definitely |
| 1:14.1 | looking forward to talking about our deep dive, which we will let you know we are going |
| 1:18.7 | to talk about reading vacations, reading, getaways, how do you do it, why might you want |
| 1:25.4 | to do it and what are some tips and tricks for doing that? |
| 1:28.1 | So Mindy and I both love to do that and we can't wait to talk about that. |
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