Season 5, Episode 43: Way Past a Book Hangover + All Things Fourth Wing
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Roxanna are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: even worse than a book hangover, it’s a book coma!, and single-track 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: It’s possible to love each other and not love the same books! Here’s an example of that!
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:28 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
2:12 - Currently Reading Patreon - Thank you for helping to keep us ad free!
3:04 - Bookish Moment of the Week
3:15 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
3:37 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
9:18 - Current Reads
9:28 - The Thief Knot by Kate Milford (Roxanna)
9:34 - Greenglass House by Kate Milford
13:10 - The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo (Meredith)
20:58 - Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey (Roxanna)
24:46 - My Life in France by Julia Child
24:48 - Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
24:50 - Infused: Adventures in Tea by Henrietta Lovell
25:46 - The Bookshop and the Barbarian by Morgan Stang (Meredith, Amazon link)
26:54 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
27:13 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram
27:50 - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
30:17 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty (Roxanna)
37:47 - The Only One Left by Riley Sager (Meredith)
40:32 - CAWPILE system
41:31 - Survive the Night by Riley Sager
43:21 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
44:31 - Deep Dive: All Things Fourth Wing
44:49 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
46:13 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
48:34 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
48:36 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
49:22 - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
49:32 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
59:36 - Meet Us At The Fountain
59:45 - I wish everyone would read Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center. (Roxanna)
59:45 - Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
1:00:16 - Wild by Cheryl Strayed
1:00:42 - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
1:02:10 - The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
1:02:23 - Read to make you happy, and don’t always follow the hype. (Meredith)
1:02:46 - In Memoriam by Alice Winn
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | 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. |
| 0:26.1 | We're light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:30.0 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:31.6 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Meredith Munde Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO, living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:41.3 | and I am all up in my feelings today. |
| 0:44.9 | And I'm Roxana Casamcara, a mom, a marketer, and a mood reader living in Toronto, Ontario, |
| 0:50.5 | Canada. |
| 0:51.5 | And I'm slowly emerging from the world's biggest book, coma. |
| 0:54.8 | This is episode number 43 of season five, and we're so glad you're here, right? |
| 0:59.3 | You're not just hungover, you've taken it to a new level that you're naming the book |
| 1:03.9 | coma. |
| 1:04.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.9 | It's not a hangover. |
| 1:06.9 | No, it's a coma. |
| 1:07.9 | It's, yes, you've been in a bad way for sure. |
| 1:10.2 | All right guys, so we want to let you know a couple of things right up front. |
| 1:14.3 | First of all, our deep dive today is one that I think a lot of you are going to be interested |
| 1:19.3 | in because Roxana and I, as breeding partners, are going to be discussing the juggernaut |
| 1:26.4 | of the summer, and that is the fourth wing. |
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