Season 5, Episode 3: Hold Onto Your Butts + Secret Pleasure Reads
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 56 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: DNF progress and a new way of enjoying a book
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Current Reads: five books we’re excited to talk about and one that might cause some clutched pearls
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Deep Dive: the books we know are terrible but are our secret pleasures
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes over our reading lives
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1:43 - Bookish Moment of the Week
6:59 - The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World (Amazon Link)
9:45 - Current Reads
10:01 - Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales (Kaytee)
14:25 - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex (Meredith)
16:04 - Blackwell’s
18:00 - Descent by Tim Johnston
18:01 - The Current by Tim Johnston
18:18 - The Lighthouse Witches by C. J. Cooke
18:19 - The Novel Neighbor
19:17 - When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor S. Schumann (Katyee)
23:35 - Masterminds and Wingmen by Rosalind Wiseman (Meredith)
24:02 - Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman
25:51 - NurtureShock by Po Bronson
28:15 - The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph (Kaytee)
30:24 - How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
31:44 - CONTENT WARNING FROM HERE TO THE FOUNTAIN. LITTLE EARS AND MINDY ARE NOT RECOMMENDED.
32:36 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert (Meredith)
38:34 - Deep Dive: Books We Want to Hide While Reading
39:27 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
41:03 - Blackout by Candace Owens
45:12 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert
45:27 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
45:30 - 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James
50:37 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish that everyone had access to a great library card collection. (Kaytee)
51:04 - Libby
51:29 - Libro.fm
I wish everyone could experience fall reading to its fullest extent. (Meredith)
53:15 - Plain Bad Heroines by Emily Danforth
53:23 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
53:30 - All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage
53:41 - The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
53:48 - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
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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 |
| 0:18.3 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.6 | 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 | And today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we will visit |
| 0:33.4 | the fountain. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Meredith Munde Schwartz, a mom of four and full time CEO living in Austin, Texas |
| 0:39.5 | and I am happy that I've been using books in a different way lately. |
| 0:43.8 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I'm not great |
| 0:48.0 | at DNFing but I'm working on it. |
| 0:50.4 | This is episode number three of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.6 | Katie, why is DNFing so hard? |
| 0:58.0 | We know we should do it, but why is it a struggle? |
| 1:01.6 | I hate it. |
| 1:03.6 | We do struggle. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, it's a it's a work in progress. |
| 1:07.2 | We'll see what happens. |
| 1:08.7 | Right, right. |
| 1:09.7 | Okay, all right. |
| 1:10.7 | We'll hopefully we'll hear a little bit more about that. |
| 1:12.8 | So we are going to let you know that our deep dive this week is answering a question that |
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