Season 5, Episode 27: Popcorn Reading + Joys and Challenges of Reading as Our "Job"
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a meeting with an app and a personal audiobook win
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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’ve been asked how it affects our reading lives to have to do it as a “job,” and we’re answering those questions today!
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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2:19 - Currently Reading Patreon
3:54 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:02 - CR Season 5: Episode 12
4:09 - Fable app
4:11 - CR Season 5: Episode 15
5:56 - Zeel app
8:36 - Current Reads
8:45 - The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler (Kaytee)
9:05 - Sea Change by Gina Chung
9:27 - Bookmarks
12:36 - The Getaway by Lamar Giles (Meredith)
14:18 - Fantasticland by Mike Bockoven
14:19 - Hide by Kiersten White
16:14 - Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Kaytee)
18:29 - Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
20:16 - A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett (Meredith, amazon link)
21:54 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher
25:04 - The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (Kaytee)
29:25 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
31:00 - The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell (Meredith)
31:08 - Hearts and Daggers podcast
34:58 - Deep Dive: When Reading is Your Job
40:48 - NetGalley
40:52 - Libro.fm
47:40 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish everyone knew about the library extension you can add to your browser (Kaytee)
47:47 - LibraryExtension
49:12 - The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
I wish romances would delineate spicy scenes with different colored text. (Meredith)
50:06 - The Popcast
50:11 - The Popcast episode 489 - The Nos of Books
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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 strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:24.4 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.9 | be spoiler free. Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll |
| 0:32.6 | visit the fountain. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Meredith Mundy Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.6 | reading is definitely my relaxation. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, |
| 0:44.1 | living in New Mexico and buddy reading brings me such joy. This is episode number 27 of |
| 0:49.8 | season five and we're so glad you're here. Katie, I do not know. I have never known. I have |
| 0:57.4 | never even come close to understanding how you do as much buddy reading as you do, but I know |
| 1:04.0 | it brings you so much joy and I love it so much. I legitimately love how much you love it. |
| 1:10.5 | It's a really big part of my reading life and we actually, this is not, you know, the episode, |
| 1:15.8 | but we had a lot of conversations in the bookish friends group about how some people are more |
| 1:20.2 | reading partner people because of your episode with Roxana and they want that one solid committed |
| 1:26.2 | relationship and some people are more social butterflies and they want to be able to flip |
| 1:30.4 | from buddy group to buddy group and read with different readers and get different experiences. |
| 1:35.2 | And I'm actually, I'm a bit of both. I'm like, by buddy reader, I guess, because I have a |
| 1:41.0 | reading partner in Katie and then I buddy read with all kinds of people and I love both. |
| 1:45.6 | All right, so we want to let you know right here at the top of the show that we are going to talk |
| 1:51.6 | later in the show about the perks, the upsides and there are some and the downsides and there are |
| 1:58.7 | some of reading being your job. So Katie and I are going to deep dive on that a little bit later. |
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