Season 5, Episode 20: Going Off the Deep End + Book Tracking Extravaganza
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 62 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: a big milestone and small business Saturday
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Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
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Deep Dive: we go down the rabbit hole of book tracking
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:58 - Bookish Moment of the Week
3:15 - Garcia Street Books
5:11 - Fabled Bookshop
5:53 - Current Reads
6:17 - The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
6:27 - Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie (Meredith)
12:20 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition) by Anton Treuer (Kaytee)
12:52 - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
17:05 - The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier (Meredith)
23:02 - A Lady for A Duke by Alexis Hall (Kaytee)
23:13 - Bookmarks
23:27 - libro.fm
24:50 - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
27:20 - Rizzio by Denise Mina (Meredith)
28:26 - Conviction by Denise Mina
28:33 - Blackwell’s UK
30:24 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
31:48 - An Immense World by Ed Yong (Kaytee)
32:25 - I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
34:49 - Fable App
6:45 - Deep Dive: All Things Reading Trackers
42:58 - Currently Reading Patreon
48:26 - CAWPILE Rating System
49:16 - A Lady for A Duke by Alexis Hall
54:58 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish that Three Pines the show doesn’t disappoint me. (Meredith)
55:38 - Still Life by Louise Penny (Three Pines #1)
56:00 - The Hangman by Louise Penny
56:32 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
56:49 - WSIRN Episode 357 w/Louise Penny
I wish to institute Jolabokaflod in my home this year. (Kaytee)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.4 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.4 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.8 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Meredith Mundish, works a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and Katie |
| 0:38.7 | sometimes I still can't believe people listen to us every week. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and being with fellow bookstore |
| 0:48.1 | lovers brings me so much joy. This is episode number 20 of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.5 | Meredith, I have a lot of questions. |
| 0:57.0 | Okay, well, I've got a lot of answers. |
| 0:58.6 | I've got, I'm excited to get. |
| 0:59.8 | I've got millions of answers for you. |
| 1:02.1 | So many answers. |
| 1:03.1 | Okay, first I'm going to let everybody know right here at the top that our deep dive today is about |
| 1:07.6 | book tracking. Why should you do it? How should you do it? |
| 1:11.2 | Should you do it at all? |
| 1:12.4 | And what's the best way to do it? |
| 1:14.8 | And first, today we want to let you know that this is our last episode of 2022. |
| 1:21.3 | We are off for our Christmas break on December 19th and the 26th. |
| 1:25.3 | We will return to your earbuds on January 2nd with our best books of 2022 episode. |
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