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Season 5, Episode 25: Reading in Other Formats + The Time and Place for a Quiet Book

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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

  • Bookish Moments: TBR evaluation and a great e-reader setup

  • Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately

  • Deep Dive: an exploration and praise of the Quiet book

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

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1:44 - Bookish Moment of the Week

4:14 - Kindle Oasis

4:16 - Casebot Kindle Oasis Case

7:01 - Kindle Paperwhite

7:38 - Current Reads

7:53 - Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (Kaytee)

12:29 - The Drift by C.J. Tudor

12:44 - The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor (Meredith)

17:52 - The Whisper Man by Alex North

17:53 - The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup

17:54 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

18:42 - Chef’s Kiss by TJ Alexander (Kaytee)

19:18 - Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

23:35 - The Candymakers by Wendy Mass (Meredith)

25:46 - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

26:53 - Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

27:25 - The Book Scavengers by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

27:27 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson

27:53 - The Einsteins of Vista Point by Ben Guterson

28:28 - Violeta by Isabel Allende (Kaytee)

28:34 - An Unlikely Story

32:11 - Never Lie by Freida McFadden (Meredith)

38:02 - The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

38:38 - Deep Dive: Quiet Books

43:00 - Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

44:07 - The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

45:42 - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

47:18 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay

48:09 - Tara Road by Mauve Binchey

48:35 - We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

48:37 - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein

48:45 - The Dutch House by Anne Patchett

48:46 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

50:45 - What Should I Read Next w/Anne Bogel

50:58 - From the Front Porch w/Annie B. Jones

51:30 - Meet Us At The Fountain

I wish we all had readerly “What Should I Read Next” bubbles that popped up when talking with new readers. (Kaytee)

I wish everyone would shake up their reading formats and do something outside their “norm”. (Meredith)

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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 those strong opinions,

0:23.5

so get ready.

0:24.7

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

0:28.1

be spoiler free.

0:29.5

Today, we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit

0:32.9

the fountain.

0:33.9

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

0:39.1

and I never thought I'd be obsessed with an e-reader, but I am.

0:43.6

And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in Mexico, and my bookshelves and

0:48.3

TBR piles are teetering.

0:50.7

This is episode number 25 of season five, and we are so glad you're here.

0:55.2

I'm also obsessed with my e-reader, Meredith.

0:57.8

Yes, yes, and I've realized that when I load books onto my e-reader, I feel less guilty

1:03.0

about them.

1:04.0

Oh, well, that's very delightful.

1:08.0

It's not real books, because they're just digital.

1:10.8

It's fine.

1:12.1

Exactly.

1:13.1

All right.

1:14.1

Right.

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