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Season 6, Episode 28: Book to Film Excitement + Boss My TBR

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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

  • Bookish Moments: an exciting look at a book to film preview

  • Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately

  • Deep Dive: bossing two listeners’ TBRs

  • The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site)

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1:35 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:07 - The Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

5:42 - Our Current Reads

6:01 - The Broken Girls by Simone St. James (Meredith)

10:53 - Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver (Kaytee)

SKIP TO 16:30 IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO LISTEN TO THIS SETUP

13:52 - Storygraph

13:54 - Reel by Ezeekat about trigger warnings of Butcher & Blackbird

16:48 - Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death by M.C. Beaton (Meredith)

21:26 - The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

22:25 - Landlines by Raynor Winn (Kaytee, Blackwell’s UK link)

22:30 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

23:42 - The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

27:00 - Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford (Meredith)

28:18 - Fabled Bookshop

28:20 - @wacoreads on Instagram

29:04 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

31:19 - All About Love by Bell Hooks (Kaytee)

33:48 - Deep Dive: Boss My TBR

From Wendy T.

34:25 - The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

34:28 - The City We Became by N.K. Jemison

34:31 - The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

34:34 - The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

34:37 - House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

37:10 - @birdbrainbooks on Instagram

37:18 - The Hearts and Daggers Pod on Instagram

From Sarah O.

41:03 - Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro

41:06 - Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

41:08 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

41:11 - Death in the Family by Tessa Wegert

41:14 - Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman

43:31 - Babel by R.F. Kuang

46:47 - Scythe by Neal Shusterman (a follow up from a previous Boss My TBR they loved!)

47:09 - Meet Us At The Fountain

47:26 - Cabin in the Woods by Sarah Alderson

48:26 - I wish to see more blurbs from Netgalley readers on books instead of author blurbs. (Meredith)

50:18 - I wish it were easier to find fandom recommended reading order for authors with series that are within the same universe. (Kaytee)

52:44 - @birdbrainbooks on Instagram

53:08 - The Hearts and Daggers Pod on Instagram

53:27 - Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

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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

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every week talking about the books that we've read recently and as you know we won't shy away

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from having strong opinions so get ready.

0:24.0

We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler free.

0:28.9

Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.

0:33.6

I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I love

0:39.2

it when a fictional book boyfriend comes to life.

0:42.8

And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in Arizona,

0:46.4

and I love to get a little book bossy sometimes.

0:49.1

This is episode number 28 of season 6, and we are so glad you're here. Meredith I want

0:54.4

wait how did you manifest a book boyfriend into existence I cannot wait to hear

0:58.5

about this yes well it it was a lot of it was a lot of manifesting yeah I bet it was a lot of, it was a lot of manifesting.

1:03.4

Yeah, I bet it was.

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Interesting.

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Okay, I am driving today.

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So I'm gonna let everybody know that our deep dive,

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we are going to Boss TBR's again again today which we haven't done in probably about three months

1:15.9

so it was time for another bit of bossiness and we're excited for that.

1:19.3

I love it. You picked two really really good case studies.

1:22.8

I'm very excited about it.

1:24.5

Yeah, I had fun kind of reading into them a little bit.

1:27.8

Yeah.

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