Season 6, Episode 2: Circling Back on Direct Presses
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: comfort social accounts and mother daughter bonding
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Current Reads: four regular reads and our two bossy presses
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Deep Dive: how we felt about pressing books to each other and our experiences reading them
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:20 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
1:40 - @megs.tea.room on Instagram
1:40 - @megstearoom on Tiktok
2:01 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
3:56 - Book of the Month
6:21 - Current Reads
6:28 - Clean Air by Sarah Blake (Meredith)
8:40 - @fictionmatters on Instagram
10:30 - The Need by Helen Phillips
10:33 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
10:56 - The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger
10:57 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
10:58 - Curfew by Jayne Cowie
11:22 - Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler (Kaytee)
13:35 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
13:39 - Everything Happens podcast
15:36 - Dark August by Katie Tallo (Meredith)
17:55 - The Book Drop Subscription
19:49 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
20:29 - Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa (Kaytee)
20:37 - CR Season 5: Episode 45
25:07 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Meredith)
29:55 - Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
34:22 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (Kaytee)
42:38 - Deep Dive: Being The Presser and the Pressee
44:33 - BookRiot
45:45 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
47:19 - Matrix by Lauren Groff
51:32 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
52:20 - Meet Us At The Fountain
53:58 - I wish those of us with littles would let them choose our reads sometimes. (Meredith)
54:07 - I wish we would practice letting go of the reins. (Kaytee)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | 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. |
| 0:24.6 | We are in Light on Chit Chat, have you on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.9 | be spoiler free. |
| 0:29.4 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Meredith Mandeishworts, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:38.6 | I love it when my reading surprises me and I'm Katie Cobb. |
| 0:42.2 | A homeschooling mom of four living in Arizona and I love a bookish serotonin hit. |
| 0:47.6 | This is episode number two of season six and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:52.2 | Bookish serotonin hit is always a good idea. |
| 0:55.8 | It is a good idea. |
| 0:56.8 | That plays into my bookish moment but first I'm going to let everybody know that for our |
| 1:01.7 | deep dive this week we are going to circle back on those books that we pressed forcefully |
| 1:06.3 | and directly into each other's hands at the end of season five. |
| 1:09.8 | So if you read along or if you've been waiting for that that's coming today. |
| 1:14.4 | We're doing it in a special way. |
| 1:15.8 | We're going to figure it out together. |
| 1:17.2 | First, we'll get started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week Meredith. |
| 1:21.8 | What is yours? |
| 1:22.8 | All right. |
| 1:23.8 | For my bookish moment of the week I want to bring a Instagram and TikTok account that I |
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