Season 6, Episode 15: Creating Bookish Community + Having Hobbies Outside of Reading

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: creating bookish community in a new place and being bossed to read books NOW
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: how to have hobbies outside of reading
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:33 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:09 - Changing Hands Bookstore

2:15 - Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree

4:19 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

5:43 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

7:16 - Current Reads

7:24 - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Kaytee)

12:38 - Creature Feature by Various Authors (Meredith, Audible Original link)

13:33 - Libro.fm

13:44 - In Bloom by Paul Tremblay

14:24 - Big Bad by Chandler Baker

14:26 - The Husbands by Chandler Baker

14:28 - Cutting Teeth by Chandler Baker

15:03 - The Pram by Joe Hill

15:27 - It Waits in the Woods by Josh Malerman

16:27 - Ankle Snatcher by Grady Hendrix

18:01 - Going Zero by Anthoney McCarten (Kaytee)

18:24 - Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

18:26 - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

20:36 - @codyhill__ on Instagram

21:55 - Glossy by Marisa Meltzer (Meredith)

27:20 - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

28:18 - It Was An Ugly Couch Anyway by Elizabeth Passarella (Kaytee)

30:29 - Good Apple by Elizabeth Passarella

30:35 - 10 Things To Tell You episode 178 w/Elizabeth Passarella

31:29 - Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter (Meredith)

36:45 - Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

36:57 - Deep Dive: Having Hobbies Outside of Reading

37:05 - Currently Reading Patreon

47:42 - Meet Us At The Fountain

47:57 - I wish to mark the end of an era for the Sorta Awesome podcast. (Kaytee)

48:03 - Sorta Awesome podcast

50:35 - I wish books could be searched like playlists such as books with jump scares, books with full cast narration, etc. (Meredith)

51:23 - Libro.fm

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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
0:16.2	every week talking about the books that we've read recently and you should know we won't shy
0:21.2	away from having strong opinions so get ready. We are light on the
0:25.3	chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler free.
0:28.8	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a book is steep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:33.4	I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I love
0:39.2	being book-bost around. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, living in Arizona, and I look for book
0:46.1	community wherever I go. This is episode number 15 of season six, and we are so glad you're here.
0:51.7	Oh Katie, do you feel since your move to Arizona,
0:55.0	that book community has been flowing toward you?
1:00.0	Well, I'm trying to manifest that within this episode, so we'll see if it works out or not.
1:04.8	All right good well that's what I did when I moved to Austin and it really worked out so that's
1:08.9	that's what'll happen to you. Okay so we are going to let you guys know later on in the episode we are going to be talking about the concept of reading along with other hobbies. How does it work? Are you a multi hobbyist?
1:24.5	So we're gonna talk about whether we are
1:26.1	and kind of our thoughts about that.
1:27.4	That will be our many deep dive later on.
1:30.4	But first, let's start the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week. What have you got Katie?
1:35.8	Okay, Meredith my bookish moment this week is that I finally got off my Tookus enough to get started on forming in-person currently reading bookish community here in Arizona.
1:47.6	We have had a busy few months, but I'm excited to tap into the very large number of bookish friends that live in Arizona.
1:55.9	I've already connected with, I think I sent an email today to 15 or 17 Arizona bookish friends to invite them to a first meet up and before that even happens
2:06.1	I also invited them to meet me at an event at Changing Hands Book Store in Temb where we will get to see
2:12.0	Travis Baldry live and in person the day after bookshops and bone dust releases.
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