Season 5, Episode 7: Seasonal Reading Bonanza + Diverging Strong Opinions
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Mary are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: being a beta-reader and a new school routine
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Current Reads: perfectly seasonal reads for your TBRs
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Deep Dive: a discussion of books that M&M had diverging opinions on
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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2:09 - Bookish Moment of the Week
6:22 - Mr. Delia’s resources for readers
6:54 - Millionaires for the Month by Stacy McAnulty
8:40 - Current Reads
9:06 - The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones (Mary)
13:08 - The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (Meredith)
13:48 - The Novel Neighbor
13:53 - @novelneighbor on Instagram
14:14 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
16:09 - The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
17:55 - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (Mary)
18:31 - Book Depository
21:50 - The Appeal by Janice Hallett
22:26 - Booth by Karen Joy Fowler (Meredith)
24:17 - The Booker Prize 2022
24:29 - Blackwell’s UK
28:17 - This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (Mary)
31:33 - The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman (Meredith)
32:07 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
35:14 - Deep Dive: When Opinions About Books Collide
35:26 - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
48:47 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
53:54 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
53:56 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
1:00:31 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish I could let fans of Finlay Donovan know about the Booking Agents series by Cherie Priest. (Mary)
1:01:45 - Finlay Donovan is Killing it by Elle Cosimano
1:01:53 - Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest (Booking Agents #1)
1:02:43 - Flight Risk by Cherie Priest
I wish I could go into reading experiences without any expectations (Meredith)
1:05:27 - Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:18.2 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong and sometimes diverging |
| 0:24.0 | opinions so get ready. |
| 0:26.1 | We are light on the titschat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:30.4 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:31.7 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we will visit the fountain. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Meredith Mandeishwartz, a mom of four and full time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:41.7 | I love it when my kids have teachers who love reading as much as I do. |
| 0:46.5 | And I'm Mary Heim, a working mom of one and I love it when my books are both a window |
| 0:51.4 | and a mirror. |
| 0:53.0 | This is episode number seven of season five and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:56.9 | Oh Mary, I'm so glad that we finally get to be back on the mic together with our rotation |
| 1:02.2 | schedule. |
| 1:03.7 | You and I don't get to do this very often but it's always so much fun when we do. |
| 1:08.1 | It's been a while, I'm so excited Meredith and I am especially, I have been pumped about |
| 1:12.9 | this particular episode that we are doing today for a very long time. |
| 1:17.4 | So I'm so ready for it and I'm so happy to be here with you today. |
| 1:20.8 | Yes, so we are going to be deep diving today on a topic that, man, we hear about all |
| 1:26.9 | the time. |
| 1:27.9 | Mary and I are going to have a conversation about a couple of books that we each had strong |
| 1:33.4 | feelings about and the other person had opposite and also strong feelings about. |
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