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Season 5, Episode 2: Reading Realizations + A Slow But Steady Primer

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

Allthebooks, Books, Read, Arts, Bookpodcast, Reading, Whatshouldireadnext, Society & Culture

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

  • Bookish Moments: reading to a new generation and an online event

  • Current Reads: six books we read over the summer that we want you know to about

  • Deep Dive: slow but steady reading, what works in this format and where do we fit it in?

  • The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes over our reading lives

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!

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1:38 - Bookish Moment of the Week

2:45 - Stanley’s Library by William Bee

3:54 - @teenybookshelf on Instagram

4:36 - Fabled Bookshop

6:24 - Current Reads

7:09 - American Predator by Maureen Callahan (Meredith)

12:47 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

13:00 - The Amityville Horror Jay Anson

13:32 - The Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Kaytee)

13:40 - Brilliant Books - K Edit: this bookstore is actually located in Traverse City in the LOWER peninsula of Michigan. Thanks to the many (many many) of you who pointed out my mistake.

13:40 - Brilliant Books Monthly

14:21 - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

16:21 - Circe by Madeline Miller

16:22 - Lobizona by Romina Garber Russell

16:41 - Scorpica by G.R. McCallister

18:08 - The Search by Nora Roberts (Meredith)

23:14 - The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake (Kaytee)

23:33 - Libro FM ALC program

25:10 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

25:23 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

25:44 - The Atlas Paradox by Olivie Blake (pre-order)

26:13 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldtree

27:00 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher (Meredith)

33:06 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

33:45 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch (Kaytee)

36:57 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

37:00 - Recursion by Blake Crouch

37:15 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

38:17 - Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson

39:17 - Deep Dive: The Slowest and the Steadiest

39:21 - @Marys_bookish_musings on Instagram

41:26 - Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

41:34 - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

41:48 - Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby (Amazon link)

41:49 - The New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby

42:22 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

42:49 - Roots by Alex Haley

45:34 - The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili

45:45 - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

45:48 - Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke

48:11 - It by Stephen King

48:13 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King

48:37 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher

48:56 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish I could implement a family reading time in the evenings. (Kaytee)

I wish everyone could experience what we experience with the Indie Press List (Meredith)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey readers, welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast.

0:14.3

We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we

0:18.2

read recently and as you know we don't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready.

0:25.1

We are light on the chit chat, having on the book talk and our descriptions will always

0:28.5

be spoiler free. Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then

0:33.1

we'll meet you at the fountain.

0:34.6

I'm Meredith Mendes Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas

0:39.7

and raising a new generation of readers is making me so happy. And I'm Katie Cump, a

0:45.3

homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I'm gearing up for school as the summer

0:49.4

winds down. This is episode number two of season five and we're so glad you're here.

0:54.9

Oh yeah, you are gearing up for school. So have you five, have you now landed on your

0:58.8

date, Katie, that it's school is going to start again?

1:02.0

Well I made my August calendar and I penciled in a date and then I realized we have like

1:05.8

three medical appointments that week so I need to pick either the week earlier or the

1:09.5

week later because I can't start and have it be a screwy week right at the back.

1:13.4

Right.

1:14.4

We're going to play with that.

1:15.4

Got it.

1:16.4

Okay.

1:17.4

Well again, it's great that you have the flexibility to do that. That is that is one of the huge

1:21.1

benefits of doing what you do. It certainly is. I'm going to let everybody know at the

1:25.6

top of the show here that today we are talking all things slow but steady. We're going to

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