Season 5, Episode 41: Summer Reading + Book Hangovers
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 54 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: summer reading guides and plane reading
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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 are chatting about the dreaded book hangover, the ways we deal with it, and what it means about our reading lives.
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:44 - Bookish Moment of the Week
2:01 - MomAdvice Summer Reading Guide
2:15 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Summer Reading Guide
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Sarah’s Patreon if you want access to Summer Shelves
2:22 - Modern Mrs. Darcy’s FREE minimalist reading guide
2:34 - Paperback Summer Reading Guide w/FictionMatters
2:40 - Kellyhook.readsbooks on Instagram
5:53 - Current Reads
6:13 - Nic Blake and the Remarkables by Angie Thomas (Kaytee)
6:36 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
6:54 - Libro.fm
10:17 - Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson (Meredith)
10:37 - Parnassus Books
14:21 - The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
16:15 - If Only You by Chloe Liese (Kaytee)
20:19 - Drowning by TJ Newman (Meredith)
21:53 - Falling by TJ Newman
22:47 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
24:28 - The Marriage Act by John Marrs (Kaytee)
24:38 - The One by John Marrs
28:52 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (Meredith)
31:33 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
33:59 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
34:00 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
35:18 - Furyborn by Claire Legrand
35:20 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
37:21 - The Dreaded Book Hangover (or is it dreaded??)
37:41 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
38:10 - Babel by R.F. Kuang
38:31 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
44:08 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
45:59 - The Wager by David Grann
47:37 - Meet Us At The Fountain
47:45 - If you liked my current reads, I wish you’d go back to each other and read their first books. (Kaytee)
48:04 - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
48:14 - Only When It’s Us by Chloe Liese
48:25 - The One by John Marrs
49:07 - I wish everyone would try pink or brown noise to help focus their reading. (Meredith)
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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 |
| 0:27.7 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.2 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Meredith Mundishwarts, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.8 | my happiest reading is done at 40,000 feet. |
| 0:42.5 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I love when summer |
| 0:47.0 | reading guide season arrives. |
| 0:49.1 | This is episode number 41 of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.2 | Oh yes, summer reading guide season, I love it too, there are so many good ones coming |
| 0:57.8 | out. |
| 0:58.8 | I can't wait to talk about all my favorites. |
| 1:01.2 | All right, good. |
| 1:02.2 | Okay, well then let's let you know right up here at the top that we are going to be discussing |
| 1:07.3 | something that affects every reader. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm confident in saying we all share the scourge that is the reading hangover and we're |
| 1:18.4 | going to get into it, we're going to get into why it happens and what it feels like |
| 1:23.2 | so you know you're not alone and we're going to let you know what we do to get out of |
| 1:27.1 | them. |
| 1:28.1 | Well, I might need some tips. |
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