Season 5, Episode 47: Many Kinds of Murder + Forcefully and Directly Pressing a Book
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 59 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 programs + a fun murderful treat
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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’re trying a new thing and pressing books into each other’s hands that we are required to read over break!
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:51 - Currently Reading Patreon
3:18 - Fabled Bookshop
3:52 - Bookish Moment of the Week
5:13 - Murdle: Volume 1 by G.T. Karber
6:04 - Hunt A Killer
7:52 - Current Reads
8:11 - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (Kaytee)
8:22 - Babel by R.F. Kuang
13:15 - The Girls on Chalk Hill by Alison Belsham (Meredith)
18:06 - The Life Council by Laura Tremaine (Kaytee)
20:55 - CR Season 3: Episode 24
21:01 - Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First by Laura Tremaine
23:11 - Laura Tremaine’s Patreon
25:02 - Murdle: Volume 1 by G.T. Karber
25:15 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (Meredith)
30:29 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Kaytee)
32:27 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
33:07 - Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
34:42 - My Murder by Katie Williams (Meredith)
36:49 - Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
37:58 - Deep Dive: We Boss Each Other’s TBR
46:43 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (For Kaytee to read)
46:48 - Matrix by Lauren Groff
46:51 - Florida by Lauren Groff
49:09 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
49:31 - The One by John Marrs
49:45 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (For Meredith to read)
52:33 - Meet Us At The Fountain
52:51 - I wish for good wishes in my impending move and life changes. (Kaytee)
54:47 - I wish we would go into more books “blindly”. (Meredith)
55:42 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
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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 |
| 0:17.9 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.1 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy 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 |
| 0:32.4 | fountain. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Meredith Mundish, a mom of four in full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and with |
| 0:38.4 | reading there is a first time for everything. |
| 0:42.1 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and I am packing |
| 0:47.1 | for the next big Cobb adventure. |
| 0:49.9 | This is episode number 47 of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.1 | Okay Katie, you know what I'm realizing? |
| 0:55.7 | All of a sudden I have no idea what my bite size intro refers to. |
| 1:01.4 | I wasn't listening. |
| 1:03.0 | No, I know, okay. |
| 1:05.0 | I know what it refers to. |
| 1:07.0 | Okay. |
| 1:08.0 | I was like, I don't do that. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, no, I didn't think you did, but now I got it. |
| 1:12.4 | I got it. |
| 1:13.4 | Okay. |
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