Season 6, Episode 19: Book Subscriptions + Books That Kept Us Up At Night

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: book subscriptions and bookish advents
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: the types of and specific books that kept us up at night
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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2:01 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

5:40- OwlCrate

6:24 - Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

7:36 - Fairyloot

8:11 - Current Reads

8:28 - Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (Kaytee)

12:46 - The Cook’s Book by Bri McKoy (Meredith)

14:07 - Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat

15:48 - The Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi

18:26 - Hummingbird by Natalie Lloyd (Kaytee)

21:43 - The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale (Meredith)

23:12 - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

23:33 - Waterstones UK

24:55 - Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (Kaytee)

31:51 - One of the Boys by Jayne Cowie (Meredith)

36:58 - Curfew by Jayne Cowie

37:29 - The Measure by Nikki Erlick

38:36 - Deep Dive: Books That Kept Us Up At Night

41:24 - The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien

41:52 - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

42:27 - The Whisper Man by Alex North

42:25 - The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

43:12 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

44:06 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips

44:28 - The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

44:46 - An Immense World by Ed Yong

44:55 - Falling by T.J. Newman

44:56 - Drowning by T.J. Newman

46:19 - The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes

46:33 - I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

47:13 - Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

47:18 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

47:22 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

50:20 - The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

50:42 - Meet Us At The Fountain

50:56 - I wish to completely abandon Goodreads for StoryGraph in 2024. (Kaytee)

50:59 - StoryGraph

52:41 - libro.fm

52:42 - bookshop.org

53:38 - I wish, if you like Christmas reading, for you to read The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan (Meredith)

58:39 - The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

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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.
0:23.8	We are light on the chit chat, having on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be
0:27.4	spoiler free.
0:28.9	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:33.2	I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas,
0:38.2	and I am a total sucker for a really pretty book.
0:41.8	And I'm Katie Kopp.
0:43.0	A homeschooling mom for living in New...
0:45.0	I don't live anymore.
0:47.0	That's called Autopilot.
0:51.0	And I'm Katie Kopp. A homeschooling mom before living in Arizona.
0:55.4	And I love a checklist that I can easily accomplish. This is episode number 19 of season 6, and we are so glad you're here.
1:02.8	All right well Katie honestly I've been waiting for you to be on autopilot
1:07.0	and make a mistake like that because when I moved from the Bay Area to Austin it
1:10.9	took me like six episodes to get it.
1:13.0	Well, you know why it didn't happen until now is because I moved during the summer,
1:17.1	during our summer break.
1:18.4	So I had time to like tell myself, no Katie, you live in Arizona now, you live in, I don't live in New Mexico anymore, Meredith.
1:26.3	I know. Muscle memory is like one of the strongest kinds of memory.
1:30.5	It's so bad. It's so bad. I did it for like 200 and some odd episodes when I lived in New Mexico. So where we are. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. All right. Well, we are going to let you know that we're going to do a deep dive today talking about books that have kept us up all night.
1:47.6	Very excited for you to carry this one, Meredith.
1:50.4	Okay, excellent, excellent, because I do read a lot of that kind of book, so I'm looking forward to talking about it, for sure.
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