Season 5, Episode 33: Addicted to Reading + Bait & Switch Books
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 49 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: reading addiction and revisiting a favorite book rec source
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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: the bookish bait & switch - sometimes it’s great, sometimes… not so much
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:24 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:22 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
5:20 - All the Books podcast
8:19 - Current Reads
8:44 - Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (Kaytee)
11:49 - The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett (Meredith)
12:09 - The Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett
14:21 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
16:38 - The Aquanauts by Dan Santat (Kaytee)
20:21 - Kell Gilligan’s Daredevil Stunt Show by Dan Santat
20:40 - McNalley’s Puzzle by Lawrence Sanders (Meredith)
24:57 - Dean Koontz books
25:16 - The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar (Kaytee)
27:50 - All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth (patron content)
28:18 - Black Summer by M.W. Craven (Meredith) Out of stock on Bookshop, but available on AMZ
29:49 - Fabled Bookshop and Cafe
32:44 - Bait & Switch Book Experiences
33:22 - Someday Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli
34:51 - I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
35:22 - Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
35:59 - The Confession by John Grisham
36:10 - Aurora by David Koepp
37:19 - Babel by R.F. Kuang
39:03 - Pony by R.J. Palazzio
39:29 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
40:10 - Piranesi by Susanna Clark
40:20 - Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakaur
40:49 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
41:04 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
41:07 - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
41:23 - Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
43:29 - Meet Us At The Fountain
43:44 - I wish everyone would read my press and heart-filled book All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle (Kaytee)
45:50 - I wish listeners would read my press and fantastic classic Shogun by James Clavell (Meredith)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.4 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.7 | We are light on the chit chat, have you on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.1 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.6 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Meredith Mendes Schwartz, a mom of four and full time CEO living in Austin, Texas |
| 0:37.6 | and back list books are my jam. |
| 0:40.4 | And I'm Katie Combe. |
| 0:41.4 | A homeschooling mom for living in New Mexico and I think I might be addicted to books. |
| 0:46.1 | This is episode number 33 of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:50.0 | Well Katie, that would not be super shocking if you were addicted to books. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, it just came up in my life in a different way this past week that I kind of want to |
| 1:00.0 | process. |
| 1:01.0 | Got it. |
| 1:02.0 | Okay, all right. |
| 1:03.0 | A little bit of bookish therapy. |
| 1:04.0 | Okay, so we will let you know right up front that we are going to be talking this week |
| 1:08.7 | in our deep dive about bait and switch books. |
| 1:12.5 | Katie, those are the books where you start out thinking they're one thing and they end |
| 1:16.7 | up being something completely different. |
| 1:18.8 | That can be both good and bad. |
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