Season 6, Episode 27: Meredith Meeting Authors + Tropes We Are Tired Of Reading

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Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: even more bookshelves and Meredith potentially meeting authors
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: tropes we are tired of reading
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:32 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

3:46 - Laundry Love by Patrick Richardson

4:11 - Ikea Ivar System (Kaytee mixed and matched as needed/wanted)

5:09 - Hamptons Whodunit

8:25 - Our Current Reads

8:36 - The Kingdom Over the Sea by Zohra Nabi (Kaytee)

8:42 - Foyles UK

10:02 - The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty

10:05 - The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

10:07 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

11:15 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

11:46 - The Work of Art by Mimi Matthews (Meredith)

15:59 - The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

16:37 - The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker (Kaytee)

16:49 - Libro.fm

20:01 - While Idaho Slept by J. Reuben Appelman (Meredith)

26:14 - Soil by Camille T. Dungy (Kaytee)

29:35 - The Cabin in the Woods by Sarah Alderson (Meredith)

33:29 - Deep Dive: Tropes We Are Tired Of Reading

34:23 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

49:14 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:20 - I wish to give all our listeners a heads up about Booktenders, the indie bookstore. (Kaytee)

49:20 - @Booktenderswv on Instagram

51:26 - I wish we would get more content around books besides JUST a blurb and a tour - for example, a book trailer. (Meredith)

52:31 - @birdbrainbooks on Instagram

52:38 - @heartsanddaggerspod on Instagram

54:04 - The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

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Transcript

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0:24.0	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. We are light on the 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 bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:33.4	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I might actually
0:39.8	be excited about meeting some authors.
0:42.3	Ooh, and I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom. be excited about meeting some authors.
0:42.8	Oh, and I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in Arizona,
0:46.8	and I have to tell myself, at least it's only books,
0:49.4	pretty regularly.
0:50.8	This is episode number 27 of season six, and we're so glad you're here.
0:55.0	Right, we could have worst vices, we could have worse shopping habits.
0:58.6	I don't collect Birken bags.
1:00.4	Right.
1:01.4	That could get very pricey.
1:03.0	Exactly, exactly. So these are the things we tell ourselves.
1:06.0	All right, so we are going to tell you right up here at the top that our deep dive this week is going to be full of spicy opinions because it is going to be about
1:16.1	tropes we are so sick of.
1:20.3	And I know I have several, Katie I'm sure you have several
1:23.1	I do.
1:24.2	Trops that we're tired of.
1:25.6	We wish people would just move on.
1:27.6	So we'll get to that later on.
1:29.3	But first, let's go to our bookish moments of the week.
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