Season 6, Episode 12: Recapping Our European Travels

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

Allthebooks, Books, Read, Arts, Bookpodcast, Reading, Whatshouldireadnext, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:

Bookish Moments: Scottish books and author interviews
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: we gush about our travels and our favorite bookshops we got to visit
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:24 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

1:52 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live Episode 152 Feat. Liz Nugent

2:01 - Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

3:07 - Waypoints by Sam Heughan

3:19 - The Clanlands Almanac: Season Stories from Scotland by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish

4:45 - andythehighlander on Instagram

5:32 - Current Reads

5:53 - None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell (Meredith)

11:03 - How Not To Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz (Kaytee)

15:10 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers (Meredith)

19:21 - Congratulations, The Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas (Kaytee)

19:35 - Here For It by R. Eric Thomas

23:19 - The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins (Meredith)

27:01 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

27:14 - The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger (note: Meredith says “Hotchburger” in the episode. Apologies for the confusion!)

27:16 - Aurora by David Koepp

27:38 - Not Too Late by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua

28:39 - The Hanging City by Charlie N. Holmberg (Kaytee)

32:35 - Deep Dive: Recapping Our European Vacations

34:00 - Blackwell’s UK

35:57 - Foyles

36:15 - Daunt Books

45:19 - Toppings and Company

45:45 - Word on the Water

47:29 - Currently Reading Patreon

47:58 - The Novel Neighbor

49:01 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:30 - If you want creepy and monsters in your reads, I wish you’d try Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Meredith)

49:57 - Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

50:47 - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

52:05 - I wish book club stickers would be actual stickers. (Kaytee)

52:47 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

52:50 - Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

53:53 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

53:56 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

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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 time every week talking about the books that we've read recently, and as you know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready.
0:24.0	We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:26.5	and our descriptions will always be spoiler free.
0:29.2	Today we'll discuss our current reads,
0:31.1	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:34.0	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I love traveling,
0:40.3	but I love reading at home most.
0:42.8	And I'm Katie Kopp, a homeschooling mom of four living in Arizona, and I may still be suffering
0:47.5	from jet lag, but I'm also riding a travel high.
0:50.8	This is episode number 12 of season 6, and we are so glad you're here.
0:54.4	Meredith we've got a theme. We do have a theme and it's gonna make sense to
1:00.2	absolutely everybody who knows what the month of September, October has been for us.
1:05.4	Oh my gosh, it's been so busy. So of course our deep dive today is going to be a circle back on the vacations
1:11.6	that you and I both got to take over the past few weeks and just kind of touching based on how it went and what kind of reading we did and all the bookish delights that awaited us across the sea. But first we're going to get started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week.
1:25.7	Meredith, what do you got? All right. Well, I'm definitely still in a UK mindset with my reading. It's what I'm currently reading. It's also what I'm thinking
1:35.6	about and it's what I'm listening to on my podcast. So I had to make sure that I
1:40.4	highlighted, bright-lined, spotlighted the episode of Sarah's Book Shelves Live that came out just a couple of weeks ago where her guest was the Irish author Liz Nugent and she talked about a lot of things in her writing career
1:56.2	but she also really talked a lot spoiler free about her book Strange Sally Diamond
2:02.2	which you guys know I've brought to the show I absolutely loved and I love it
2:07.5	when Sarah talks to any author, but especially this episode just gave so many aha moments for me having love strange Sally Diamond
2:17.0	so much. Sarah asked Liz several questions that I would have wanted to ask if I had been
2:22.3	sitting in that chair which is what Sarah does so well.
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