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Season 5, Episode 38: Bookshelf Joy + Boss My TBR

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

Allthebooks, Books, Read, Arts, Bookpodcast, Reading, Whatshouldireadnext, Society & Culture

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:

  • Bookish Moments: new bookshelves and Bookstores for Bob

  • Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately

  • Deep Dive: we are bossing our bookish friends into reading the next three books on their TBRs

  • The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!

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1:37 - Ad for Ourselves

2:03 - Currently Reading Patreon - just $5 a month! You get the Indie Press List, All Things Murderful, and Trope Thursday along with great community, and you keep the big show ad-free!

5:09 - Bookish Moment of the Week

5:25 - Ikea Billy Bookshelves

5:30 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram

8:22 - Bookstores for Bob Graphic

9:05 - Tag @maryreadsandsips in your shares!

10:35 - Current Reads

10:55 - Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (Meredith)

12:24 - Richard Osman’s books start with The Thursday Murder Club

16:06 - Ana Maria and the Fox by Liana de la Rosa (Kaytee)

18:02 - Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

20:33 - I Have Some Questions for You By Rebecca Makkai (Meredith)

21:47 - The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

25:05 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Interview with Rebecca

30:06 - Inciting Joy by Ross Gay (Kaytee)

32:02 - David Sedaris

33:36 - The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf (Meredith)

35:06 - We figured it out! This was recommended by Aubree @mnreadingmama

37:38 - Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang (Kaytee)

37:44 - Cafe Con Libros

40:59 - Boss My TBR

41:06 - Ashley Currin

41:14 - Babel by RF Kuang

41:17 - Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

41:20 - Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Reybourn

41:23 - Scythe by Neal Schusterman

41:25 - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

42:28 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

42:33 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

45:11 - Caroline Francois

45:17 - Upgrade by Blake Crouch

45:19 - Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

45:21 - Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

45:25 - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

45:27 - We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Berry

50:53 - Meet Us At The Fountain

51:12 - I wish for everyone to try the Generations Podcast((Meredith)

51:15 - @lonestarwords on Instagram

52:24 - @fictionmatters

53:48 - I wish for people to rabbit hole via books (Kaytee)

54:10 - The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

54:13 - The Devil’s Teeth by Susan Casey

54:26 - Babel by RF Kuang

54:37 - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

54:52 - Zero Fail by Carol Leonnig

Connect With Us:

Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram

Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram

Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram

Roxanna is @roxannathereader 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

0:18.0

read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready.

0:24.0

We are light on the chit chat, having on the book talk and our descriptions will always

0:27.5

be spoiler free.

0:28.8

Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain.

0:33.2

I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and

0:38.3

a new wall of bookshelves gives me life.

0:42.1

And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I love when

0:46.4

books to Graham comes together for good.

0:49.0

This is episode number 38 of season five and we are so glad you're here.

0:53.4

Oh Katie, I know exactly what your bookish moment is going to be about and I really can't

0:57.8

wait to get to that.

0:59.3

Me too.

1:01.3

First before we do that though, I'm going to let everybody know that we are going to tackle

1:04.9

that boss my TBR segment again for our deep dive today.

1:08.8

I'm excited to have a new crop of readers to harass with our suggestions which of course

1:13.4

are always gentle but also we want you to do what we tell you to.

1:17.9

Spot on.

1:18.9

They're spot on is what they are.

1:20.7

They're correct is the thing.

1:23.4

I wasn't going to use that word.

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