Season 5, Episode 8: Unexpected Book Opinions + Fall Reading Ambience
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 55 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: finding our best reading time and bookstore trauma double visits
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Current Reads: we thought we knew what we were getting with these books, but we had no idea
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Deep Dive: curating the perfect fall reading ambience, all the goodies and links
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:50 - Bookish Moment of the Week
5:58 - Back of Beyond Books
7:16 - All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury (Meredith’s short story reference)
9:58 - Current Reads
10:17 - The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-Mo (Meredith)
111:46 - Cafe Con Libros
14:43 - We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen (Kaytee)
18:24 - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune
18:26 - Hench by Natalize Zina Walschots
18:46 - The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab
19:03 - Tattered Cover Book Store
19:23 - Child Zero by Chris Holm (Meredith)
21:44 - The Twin Paradox by Charles Wachter
23:01 - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Kaytee)
23:19 - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
23:22 - CR Season 4: Episode 27
23:29 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
28:06 - Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney (Meredith)
29:22 - Fabled Bookshop
30:27 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
32:37 - Native Son by Richard Wright (Kaytee)
35:34 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
35:53 - The Street by Ann Petry
37:11 - Deep Dive: Creating the Perfect Fall Reading Ambience
37:48 - Garnet Hill
38:03 - Barefoot Dreams throw blanket
40:54 - Hillhouse Naturals Harvest Candle
42:33 - List of ASMR rooms:
43:13 - RainRiderAmbience on Youtube
44:33 - Cackle by Rachel Harrison
46:04 - The Novel Neighbor
47:54 - Meet Us At The Fountain
I wish I realized sooner to slow but steady my audiobooks. (Meredith)
49:05 - A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris
50:09 - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
50:26 - Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
51:24 - Libro.fm
I wish you would follow SparkNotes on Instagram. (Kaytee)
51:57 - SparkNotes on Instagram
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend |
| 0:15.6 | time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and as you know we won't |
| 0:20.4 | shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.1 | We are light on a chit chat, having on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.6 | be spoiler free. Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll |
| 0:32.4 | visit the fountain. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Meredith Munde Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.6 | I am so excited to be reading outside again. |
| 0:42.6 | And I'm Katie Combe, a homeschooling mom of four living in New Mexico and spending all |
| 0:46.4 | my money on books makes me a happy shopper. This is episode number eight of season five |
| 0:51.8 | and we're so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.4 | Okay, yes, spending the amount of money that we spend on books is crazy. |
| 0:58.8 | I think I'm going to do our currently reading budget at the end of the year and see how |
| 1:02.9 | much we spent just for like podcast official books. I don't even want to touch my personal |
| 1:08.0 | bank account. That can be a lovely gray area that nobody ever needs to know about. |
| 1:13.7 | We do not need to put a number on that exactly. |
| 1:16.9 | Correct. |
| 1:17.9 | Okay, so today, y'all, we want to let you know right at the top that we are going to |
| 1:21.6 | be talking about for our deep dive, creating the perfect fall reading ambiance, not the |
| 1:27.6 | perfect for all TBR. That was a few episodes ago. Meredith already assigned you homework |
| 1:32.1 | and you are reporting back in expert precision. But this week, we're going to, we're going |
| 1:37.5 | to make that environment perfect for fall reading. And I'm excited. |
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