Season 5, Episode 5: Fangirl-Itis + If (Genre) Taught Me Anything
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 50 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: unhauling books and chatting live with a favorite author
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Current Reads: dystopia and middle grade and funny memoir and fantasy and graphic novels and murder
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Deep Dive: the lessons we learned from certain sections of the bookstore
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes over our reading lives
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1:11 - Bookish Moment of the Week
1:18 - Pangobooks
2:48 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
4:40 - Half Priced Books
5:12 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard
6:17 - Fabled Bookshop
7:00 - Current Reads
7:08 - The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan (Kaytee)
7:16 - Tattered Cover Bookstore
8:30 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
12:23 - The Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White (Meredith)
14:25 - Hide by Kiersten White
16:33 - The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
17:03 - The Vampiric Vacation by Kiersten White
17:58 - Downtown Shabby by Hopwood DePree (Kaytee)
20:18 - Scribd
21:06 - The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Meredith)
25:46 - Anne of West Philly by Ivy Noelle Weir (Kaytee)
25:48 - The Secret Garden on 81st Street by Ivy Noelle Weir
26:05 - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy by Ivy Noelle Weir
26:35 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
29:22 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard (Meredith)
34:05 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
34:06 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard
34:08 - Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard
35:10 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
36:03 - Deep Dive: If (Genre) Taught Me Anything
44:29 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish every book came with an interactive experience. (Kaytee)
44:44 - The Violin Conspiracy by Brenden Slocumb
44:46 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt
44:54 - Shine Bright by Danyel Smith
45:39 - Downtown Shabby by Hopwood DePree
46:59 - Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
I wish Blackwell’s had a section just for popular books with different international covers. (Meredith)
47:36 - Blackwell’s UK
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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 |
| 0:18.0 | read recently and as you know, we don't shy away from having those spicy opinions so |
| 0:23.6 | get ready. |
| 0:24.9 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:28.4 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.4 | We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Meredith Munney Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, |
| 0:39.8 | and all my girl crushes lately seem to be authors. |
| 0:43.6 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and sometimes unloading |
| 0:48.0 | books is the best part of finishing them. |
| 0:50.6 | This is episode number five of season five and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, I'm so excited to hear about some girl crushes. |
| 0:57.1 | You know, I've had a girl crush for a really long time, but my bookish moment of the week, |
| 1:00.2 | I'm going to talk a little more about that. |
| 1:02.0 | So let's get to that, Katie. |
| 1:04.9 | What is your bookish moment of the week? |
| 1:07.0 | Okay. |
| 1:08.0 | My bookish moment this week is the discovery of and then use of Pango Books. |
| 1:13.6 | So bookish friend Candace told me about Pango Books a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago. |
| 1:19.2 | It's an app and she lists every book as soon as she's done reading it, if she's not going |
| 1:24.5 | to keep it. |
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