Season 6, Episode 1: What We Did On Our Summer Break
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 53 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: VHS tapes and tender hearts
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Current Reads: lots of swings and lots of new releases
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Deep Dive: what we did on our “summer break”
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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2:02 - Currently Reading Patreon
4:19 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4:21 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
5:05 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
6:01 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
6:03 - Anne of Green Gables by Mariah Marsden
6:03 - Anne of West Philly by Ivy Noelle Weir
7:19 - Scary Books Are My Jam Mug on our Zazzle Store
7:52 - Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker
7:56 - The Husbands by Chandler Baker
8:30 - Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
9:10 - Current Reads
9:19 - Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi (Kaytee)
9:26 - Pride by Ibi Zoboi
12:18 - The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard (Meredith)
13:54 - Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard
14:07 - Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard
14:08 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard
15:56 - The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer (Kaytee)
19:50 - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
22:42 - September by Rosamunde Pilcher (Meredith)
23:32 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
24:14 - Half Price Books
27:23 - Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
27:47 - The Adventures of Amina Al Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty (Kaytee)
29:38 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
30:16 - Fairyloot
32:23 - Mister Magic by Kiersten White (Meredith)
35:21 - The Wretched Waterpark by Kiersten White
37:27 - Deep Dive: What We Did For Summer Vacation
41:28 - September by Rosamunde Pilcher
44:18 - Kindle Oasis
44:54 - CaseBot Kindle Oasis Case
45:05 - Fintie Origami Oasis Case
47:16 - Meet Us At The Fountain
47:28 - I wish to encourage all of you to speak your truth about your bookish opinions. (Kaytee)
50:00 - I wish you’d consider amplifying your summer reading spot. (Meredith)
50:21 - Ownkoti blankets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.8 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:23.9 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.3 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:28.8 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Meredith Mendes Schwartz, a Mama 4 and full time CEO, baking in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.8 | I give myself permission in my reading to change. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling Mama 4 living in Arizona and I am so excited to see |
| 0:48.8 | what this new season brings. |
| 0:51.6 | This is episode number one of season six and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:56.0 | I just got goosebumps. |
| 0:58.0 | Meredith? |
| 0:59.0 | I know it's really fun. |
| 1:00.0 | When you do make a big move it's really fun to add that to your intro for the first time. |
| 1:03.9 | I remember when I did that in Austin and just so I'm clear I'm baking because it's so hot |
| 1:08.2 | not like physically baking baked good, I realized that was the worst idea ever. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah exactly exactly but it's hot where you are too in Phoenix. |
| 1:17.4 | It is very hot and it was a big change for us. |
| 1:20.8 | It's like a solid 30 degree swing from the highs of Santa Fe, New Mexico to the highs |
| 1:25.5 | of Phoenix, Arizona and it's not a good 30 degree swing. |
| 1:29.7 | It's the bad way. |
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