Season 5, Episode 34: Many Generations of Readers + No-Prep Current Reads
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 67 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: the generations after us and before us in our reading lives
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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: what did we learn from a no-prep current read section?
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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2:37 - Currently Reading Patreon
3:26 - Bookish Moment of the Week
4:52 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
8:23 - New York Times article “Reading Around New York”
8:50 - Hot Dudes Reading on Instagram
9:03 - New York Times article “When Listening to a Book is Better than Reading It”
13:40 - Current Reads
13:49 - Cover Story by Susan Rigetti (Meredith)
16:05 - Fabled Bookshop
17:32 - Whistleblower by Susan Fowler (aka Susan Rigetti)
18:13 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett
19:35 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse (Kaytee)
26:27 - Venco by Cherie Dimaline (Meredith)
27:18 - libro.fm
30:17 - Aurora by David Koepp
34:57 - The Attic Child by Lola Jaye (Kaytee)
35:47 - Babel by RF Kuang
39:47 - Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Meredith)
39:52 - I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
45:24 - Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty (Kaytee)
45:36 - Schuler Books
51:24 - Prepping For CR Episodes
52:50 - Venco by Cherie Dimaline
55:38 - Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
58:06 - Meet Us At The Fountain
59:02 - I wish listeners would pick up a book, read the first paragraph, then say “And that’s when the murders started” and enjoy the giggles that ensue. (Meredith)
45:50 - I wish listeners would support the creators they love. (Kaytee)
1:00:44 - The Popcast with Knox and Jamie Patreon
1:00:48 - Laura Tremaine’s Patreon
1:00:57 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live Patreon
1:01:00 - Sorta Awesome Patreon
1:03:46 - Mindy on Instagram
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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 |
| 0:17.7 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.8 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy 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. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Meredith Mane Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO, living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.4 | I am embracing possible imperfection. |
| 0:42.2 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I come from a long |
| 0:46.9 | line of readers. |
| 0:48.8 | This is episode number 34 of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.1 | Meredith I'm excited to hear a little bit about imperfections and how that relates to |
| 0:57.5 | your reading life but first we have some mischief to manage this month. |
| 1:01.6 | It is the first Monday of April and that means as always it's also time for our one and |
| 1:07.2 | only ad on currently reading podcast. |
| 1:09.8 | That's right. |
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| 1:11.8 | So as you guys know our episode at this point for the big show are averaging about an hour |
| 1:16.9 | and you get that every single week and in four hours of bookish content you are only |
| 1:23.4 | having to sit through or fast forward through one ad. |
| 1:30.0 | And so we thought we would tell you that the reason we're able to do that is because |
| 1:35.6 | we put all our time and intention and income focus on our Patreon. |
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