Season 5, Episode 46: Reading in Perfect Time + Bookish Travel Agents
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: reading on certain dates and galley homework
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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 bookish travel agents, choosing books to match your travels
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:15 - Bookish Moment of the Week
1:24 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
2:05 - Fable App
4:31 - Beneath the Swirling Sky by Carolyn Leiloglou (pre-order. Release date September 12, 2023)
6:16 - Current Reads
6:23 - Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfield (Mary)
10:24 - CR Season 5: Episode 33
10:44 - The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett (Kaytee)
11:19 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
12:54 - Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcet
13:52 - Royal Blood by Aimee Carter (Mary)
15:04 - Storygraph
15:44 - American Royals by Katharine McGee
15:47 - The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
15:56 - Spare by Prince Harry
16:19 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
16:20 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
17:02 - A Beginner’s Guide to America by Roya Hakakian (Kaytee)
20:00 - What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman (Mary)
21:55 - Go As A River by Shelley Read (Kaytee)
25:39 - Deep Dive: Books To Take You Around the World
25:51 - CR Season 4: Episode 44
26:14 - CR Season 4: Episode 5
27:15 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
27:58 - Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
28:00 - Wild by Cheryl Strayed
28:43 - Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke
29:46 - Murder at the Mena House by Erica Ruth Neubauer
30:56 - How The Word is Passed by Clint Smith
31:57 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
32:50 - Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
34:57 - Happy Place by Emily Henry
35:43 - The Cider House Rules by John Irving
35:46 - A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
36:10 - The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser
36:29 - City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
37:20 - Gods of Jade and Shadow by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
37:35 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
37:48 - Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
38:17 - Violeta by Isabel Allende
38:26 - Storygraph
39:07 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
39:32 - Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
39:44 - Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
39:45 - Love and Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
40:08 - The Dry by Jane Harper
40:31 - The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
40:57 - Big Gay Wedding by Byron Lane
41:00 - Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
42:00 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
42:01 - The Martian by Andy Weir
42:05 - An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
42:03 - ANY J. Ryan Stradal book
42:37 - Meet Us At The Fountain
44:12 - I wish all libraries did adult summer reading programs. (Mary)
45:06 - I wish parents would buy their kids Kindle Fires and turn them into reading only machines. (Kaytee)
45:14 - Kindle Fire (but wait until Prime Day to get a discount!)
45:45 - Hoopla
45:56 - Libby
45:57 - Libro.fm
45:58 - Instructions to download Libro.FM (Libby should have no issues)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Raiders. Welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend |
| 0:16.0 | time every week talking about the books that we read recently. And as you already know, |
| 0:20.7 | we don't shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. |
| 0:23.8 | We are light on the chitchat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.5 | be spoiler free. Today, we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll |
| 0:32.2 | visit the fountain. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico, and I love |
| 0:37.8 | a bookish homework assignment. And I'm Mary Heim, a therapist and mom of one living in Wisconsin, |
| 0:44.0 | and most of the traveling I'm doing this summer is of the armchair variety. This is episode |
| 0:49.1 | number 46 of season five, and we are so glad you're here. We are so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.2 | I'm so happy to be recording with you today, Mary. And I am going to let everybody know at |
| 0:59.1 | the top here that just like you just mentioned, we're about to have our summer break from podcasts. |
| 1:03.6 | So today, you and I are playing bookish travel agents. We're going to tell you all where to go, |
| 1:09.1 | and what books to read when you get there, or before you get there. But before we do that, |
| 1:14.1 | let's talk about our bookish moments of the week. Mary, what is yours? |
| 1:17.7 | Well, Katie, it was probably about a year ago now that you made the offhand comment to me that whenever |
| 1:23.8 | I planned to read the link in highway by Amor Tolls, I should plan to start it on June 12th, |
| 1:29.4 | knowing that this was the day the story gets started. Of course, mood reader that I am, I shuffled |
| 1:34.5 | that information away in my brain, and stuck this one on my summer reads shelf to be forgotten |
| 1:40.2 | about for the better part of nine months. Well, when it started to get close to June, I thought, |
| 1:45.8 | hey, I wonder if anybody else is interested in doing this kind of date targeted read along with me. |
| 1:52.0 | And I put the call out to our bookish friends, Patreon group on Facebook. I got a great response, |
| 1:57.6 | and this week I am deep in the throws of reading this book in real time, quote unquote, |
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