Season 5, Episode 28: Lighting Up Our Reading Lives + Travel Inspired by Books
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 59 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 wonderful reading gift and an upcoming literary festival
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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: today we are making a travel list based on the (real) places we’ve traveled in books
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:30 - Bookish Moment of the Week
2:04 - Anwick Book Lamp
4:14 - Santa Fe International Literary Festival
6:18 - Current Reads
6:32 - Silent Voices by Ann Cleaves (Meredith)
6:51 - BritBox
11:10 - The Long Call by Ann Cleaves
11:29 - The Crow Trap by Ann Cleaves
11:42 - Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano (Kaytee)
18:32 - Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Meredith)
23:50 - How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price (Kaytee)
27:34 - The Daily Stoic
27:36 - The Painted Porch Bookshop
29:04 - The Rook by Daniel O’Malley (Meredith)
33:35 - Hench by Natalize Zina Walschots
33:36 - The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett
35:12 - We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (Kaytee)
35:18 - Libro.fm
37:17 - Fabled Bookshop
37:18 - Times Undoing by Cheryl A. Head
38:08 - Deep Dive: Travel Inspired by Books
40:22 - The Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker
41:03 - Violeta by Isabel Allende
41:49 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
42:17 - Shogun by James Clavell (y’all! I said China. Shogun takes place in Japan. Sentiment still applies, but thanks to listener Erin for pointing out my mis-speak)
43:06 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
43:53 - The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
44:19 - How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
44:50 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
45:11 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
45:15 - A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adrianna Herrera
45:34 - BookPeople
46:57 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle Mcnamara
47:41 - A City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller
49:24 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish mediocre books would be saved by turning them into amazing shows. (Meredith)
50:34 - Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barber (Amazon link)
I wish every bookstore sold bookstore stickers. (Kaytee)
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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 |
| 0:17.9 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.2 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.6 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.7 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the |
| 0:32.8 | fountain. I'm Meredith Mundy Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas |
| 0:39.2 | and Katie I did not do a bookish intro, gosh, the bite-sized bookish, all right, hang on, give me a |
| 0:47.1 | second. Okay, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it. I'm Meredith Mundy Schwartz, |
| 0:53.9 | a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and reading is the light of my life. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, living in New Mexico and I love looking forward |
| 1:09.5 | to a bookish event. This is episode number 28 of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 1:15.6 | Okay, I'm gonna let everybody know at the top here that today our deep dive is about books that |
| 1:20.2 | make us want to travel somewhere. Sometimes a book makes you want to just pack up your suitcases |
| 1:24.7 | and go. Yes. And I want to talk about that. I'm very excited, but first we'll get started like we |
| 1:29.6 | always do with our bookish moments of the week, Meredith. What have you got for us? |
| 1:33.6 | All right, my bookish moment of the week is a product which I don't often bring, but for Christmas, |
| 1:39.8 | my second son, Paxton, who just graduated from college, he lives in California and he was so |
| 1:46.0 | sweet to send me one of my favorite gifts that I've gotten in a really, really long time. |
| 1:52.2 | And that, Katie, is this. I'm gonna show you. Ready? Okay, can you see me? I'm ready. |
| 1:59.0 | I want one of those so bad. Okay, so you guys have seen this. This is one of those lamps. |
| 2:05.7 | They're on Amazon. It's like $23. We're gonna put the link in the show notes. |
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