Season 5, Episode 39: Our Favorite Publishers and Imprints
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 48 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: a mom win via a bookish fail, and fielding reader retreat questions
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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: we both got a bit of education this week learning about publishers versus imprints and discussing our favorites
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:36 - Bookish Moment of the Week
6:16 - Current Reads
6:20 - The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas (Kaytee)
6:25 - The Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
8:28 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
8:55 - Jaysen Headley aka EzeeKat on Instagram
10:12 - The Senator’s Wife by Liv Constantine (Meredith)
12:00 - The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
14:13 - Dele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro (Kaytee)
17:27 - The Twist of A Knife by Anthony Horowitz (Meredith)
18:33 - The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
19:24 - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
21:38 - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Kaytee)
22:55 - Garcia Street Books
23:15 - The Booker Prize
23:32 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
24:51 - The Original by Branden Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal (Meredith, audible link)
25:32 - Scribd
29:22 - Publishing Houses and Imprints
30:17 - Flatiron Books
30:18 - Riverhead Books
30:19 - Tor Books
30:20 - Atria Books
30:22 - Balzer + Bray on Instagram
30:44 - Penguin Random House
30:45 - MacMillan
30:46 - Hachette Book Group
32:29 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live
32:25 - Minotaur Books
35:03 - Blackstone Publishing
35:36 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley
36:16 - Simon & Schuster
36:19 - HarperCollins
37:21 - St. Martin’s Press
37:22 - Berkley Books
37:24 - Harlequin Books
39:18 - Legend and Lattes by Travis Baldree
40:16 - Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers
42:27 - Meet Us At The Fountain
42:35 - I wish for everyone to follow Jaysen Headley @ezeekat on socials and reach out to him about coming on the podcast! (Kaytee)
42:37 - Jaysen Headley aka EzeeKat on Instagram
44:10 - I wish everyone would read Bird Box, a great summer read by Josh Malerman (Meredith)
44:10 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman
45:23 - Daphne by Josh Malerman
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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 |
| 0:17.8 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.9 | We are light on a chitchat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be |
| 0:27.5 | 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 Mendeshwarz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and I don't |
| 0:38.4 | do it often but sometimes I love to fall down a bookish rabbit hole. |
| 0:42.9 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and sometimes a book |
| 0:47.4 | failure is a mom win. This is episode number 39 of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.9 | Katie Ear, Bite Ties Intro's even when you come up with them on the fly are always so good |
| 0:58.9 | but you're very good at that. |
| 1:00.2 | Meredith we both forgot to create Bite Ties Intro's today so we had to do those right before we started. |
| 1:05.4 | Quick yeah yeah but yours is really good okay all right so we are so glad to be here today. |
| 1:11.0 | We'll let you know right up at the top that we're going to be talking about publishing houses. |
| 1:15.9 | We're going to be talking about the big publishing houses we're going to be talking about maybe |
| 1:19.4 | the not so big ones that are consistent wins for us. This is a really interesting deep dive |
| 1:26.1 | that I deep dove on and was expecting to so I'm really really excited about this too. |
| 1:32.1 | Yes all right so before we do that let's start out the way we always do with our bookish moment |
| 1:36.9 | of the week. Katie what have you got? All right Meredith so as you know last week I finished |
| 1:42.1 | recording with you within about an hour and a half. I texted you that I was on my way to the |
| 1:47.3 | emergency room with Levi my middle son. Yeah poor buddy he had had an unfortunate incident where the |
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