Season 5, Episode 37: Following the Schedule + Reader Retreat Reconnaissance
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 68 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: book therapy and reading as cardio
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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: planning a reading retreat with all the details
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:41 - Bookish Moment of the Week
1:57 - Better Help (go to another podcast you love to get a referral code if you’re interested!) This one is my personal referral
4:25 - Drowning by TJ Newman
4:30 - All Things Murderful is a Currently Reading Patreon Benefit
4:47 - Falling by TJ Newman
6:55 - Current Reads
7:00 - Platonic by Marisa G. Franco (Kaytee)
7:23 - The Life Council by Laura Tremaine
11:58 - Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (Meredith)
14:31 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
16:21 - Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray (Kaytee)
19:34 - The Black Cat Murders by Karen Baugh Menuhin (Meredith)
19:41 - Murder at Melrose Court by Karen Baugh Menuhin
20:01 - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
24:43 - Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb (Kaytee)
24:58 - The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
27:14 - Sarah’s Bookshelves
28:09 - All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley (Meredith)
33:07 - Gretchen Rubin’s post about guard shadows
34:05 - Reading Retreat Reconnaissance
39:34 - Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
44:46 - Snackle Box
50:46 - The Life Council by Laura Tremaine
50:48 - Platonic by Marisa G. Franco
57:18 - Meredith’s Mug Warmers
59:44 - Death at the Dive Bar Game
1:02:30 - Meet Us At The Fountain
1:02:46 - I wish for a “Reading Blinders” invention (Kaytee)
1:03:01 - Book Neck Light
1:03:03 - Noise Canceling Headphones
1:05:05 - I wish that other readers could deeply explore a book you love together (Meredith)
1:05:13 - Journey to Three Pines debuts on Friday!
1:05:40 - Still Life by Louise Penny
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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 |
| 0:17.9 | 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 |
| 0:27.8 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.4 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Meredith Mundy Schwartz, a mom of four and full time CEO living in Austin, Texas |
| 0:38.6 | and my reading can be cardio if I'm doing it right. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Katie Cobb, I'm schooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I am a book therapy |
| 0:47.0 | aficionado. |
| 0:48.7 | This is episode number 37 of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.0 | Alright Katie, I have a feeling this episode might be a long and be wacky. |
| 0:57.5 | Apparently we're both a little slap happy this afternoon, exactly, which we shouldn't |
| 1:02.2 | be. |
| 1:03.2 | We're recording in our normal time. |
| 1:04.2 | Okay, we are going to let you guys know right off the top that we are going to be deep |
| 1:08.1 | diving today into a topic that is very, very close to my own heart, the reading retreat. |
| 1:14.7 | I just came back from one. |
| 1:16.0 | I think I've nailed the format at least for the kind of reading retreat that I want to |
| 1:20.6 | go on and Katie and I are going to deep dive into that and all the minutia as to what |
| 1:26.6 | made it great and what we would do differently next time. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm so excited about this for my own selfish self-interest and for everybody else to get |
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