Season 5, Episode 24: Journeying Together + Reading Partnership Answers
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Roxanna are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: reading peccadilloes and reading as a race
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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: questions and answers about a reading partnership, and how that works in the real world of Roxanna and Meredith
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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2:02 - Bookish Moment of the Week
3:49 - Season 5: Episode 21
8:47 - Current Reads
8:56 - Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (Roxanna)
15:36 - Babel by R.F. Kuang (Meredith)
26:29 - The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (Roxanna)
26:43 - The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
30:56 - The Drift by C.J. Tudor (Meredith)
32:38 - The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
35:41 - The Bodyguard by Katherine Center (Roxanna)
35:56 - Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
38:11 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
39:52 - A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (Meredith)
42:44 - Glass Houses by Louise Penny (Meredith mistakenly said castle instead of houses)
46:43 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
47:29 - The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
50:45 - If you are interested in a new Louise Penny segment called “A Journey to Three Pines” featuring Meredith and Roxanna, reach out in all the ways to let us know! [email protected], @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram, or in the Bookish Friends Group if you’re a member of Patreon.
52:09 - Still Life by Louise Penny
52:52 - Deep Dive: Cultivating a Reading Partnership
56:42 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (ACOTAR #2)
59:11 - Babel by R.F. Kuang
1:00:01 - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
1:08:38 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish to read more contemporary fiction and Own Voices in 2023 (Roxanna)
I wish everyone would realize you can have a fulfilling reading year no matter how many books you read (Meredith)
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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 won't shy away from having strong opinions, so get |
| 0:23.6 | ready. |
| 0:24.6 | We're light on the chitchat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be |
| 0:28.0 | spoiler free. |
| 0:29.0 | Today, we'll discuss our current needs, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit |
| 0:33.2 | that fountain. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm Meredith Monde Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:39.2 | and having a reading partner makes my life better. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Roxana Casumcara, a mom, a marketer, and a mood reader living in Toronto, Ontario, |
| 0:48.8 | Canada. |
| 0:49.8 | And in 2023, I'm going to lean into my bookish peccadillos to help me build a more fulfilling |
| 0:54.9 | reading life. |
| 0:56.1 | This is episode number 24 of season five, and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:59.8 | Oh, that sounds like a really interesting thing for you to do to lean into your peccadillos. |
| 1:05.0 | Where you're going to hear all about it in our bookish moments. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh, I can't wait. |
| 1:09.0 | I can't wait. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay. |
| 1:11.0 | So, we will tell you right up front that our deep dive today is going to be what we have |
| 1:16.2 | gotten a lot of questions about Roxana, and that is our reading partnership. |
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