Season 6, Episode 3: A Change in Rhythm + Boss My TBR
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: a rhythm change and deeper reading
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Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
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Deep Dive: we are bossing the TBRs of some bookish friends that we know really well and don’t know at all
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:40 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
5:26 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
6:14 - The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
8:46 - Three Pines on Amazon Prime
9:03 - Current Reads
9:07 - The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga (Kaytee)
13:13 - What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall (Meredith)
14:36 - Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
17:19 - The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (Kaytee)
20:45 - Severance by Ling Ma (Meredith)
24:27 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
27:09 - The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston (Kaytee)
30:38 - The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
31:44 - Red Queen by Juan Gomez-Jurado (Meredith)
37:32 - Deep Dive: Boss My TBR
From Susan Shaw Hulbert
38:58 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
38:59 - Dinners with Ruth by Nina Totenberg
39:01 - Zero Fail by Carol Leonnig
39:06 - Book Lovers by Emily Henry
39:10 - The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
From Jillian Trinidad
43:05 - I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
43:08 - Jade City by Fonda Lee
43:10 - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
43:13 - Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
43:16 - Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
49:29 - Meet Us At The Fountain
49:37 - I wish everyone would read Love and Saffron by Kim Fay (Kaytee)
49:37 - Love and Saffron by Kim Fay
50:35 - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Henff
52:51 - I wish I would read S.A Cosby before the Hamptons Whodunnit (Meredith)
53:08 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
53:55 - The Rhythm of Time by S.A. Cosby and Questlove
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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 |
| 0:17.6 | read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.0 | We are live on the chit chat, having on the book talk and our descriptions will always |
| 0:27.3 | be spoiler free. Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit |
| 0:32.2 | the fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, |
| 0:37.2 | Texas and sometimes a book hangover is not a bad thing and I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of |
| 0:43.3 | four living in Arizona and I am trying to embrace a new rhythm for this season. This is episode number |
| 0:49.2 | three of season six and we are so glad you're here. Oh Katie you really do have a very new rhythm |
| 0:57.1 | and a big season, a change of seasons here. Yes, yes. Well those often go together so |
| 1:04.0 | I'm assuming we'll talk a little bit more about that. We will. All right, all right and I don't |
| 1:09.1 | want to push you if you're not ready but that's my hope. All right we're going to let you know |
| 1:14.4 | right here at the top of the show that our deep dive today is going to be that regular feature |
| 1:19.5 | you know you love boss my TBR. We are going to boss the TBR of two victim listeners who have said |
| 1:29.3 | these are five books I'm interested in. What order should I read them in? So we'll have lots to |
| 1:34.0 | say about that. Definitely I'm excited to get to that. All right so before we do that let's talk |
| 1:39.6 | about our bookish moments of the week. What have you got Katie? All right Meredith. My bookish |
| 1:44.0 | moment like my bite-sized intro is about trying to dance to the beat of a new drum. We are still in |
| 1:50.1 | that in between space. You and I were just talking about this for a few more weeks. We close on our |
| 1:54.3 | home the day that this episode drops and then we'll be busy busy busy again to get into that new house. |
| 1:59.6 | But in the meantime I'm trying to strike this strange balance between family time and reading time |
| 2:04.7 | and not being anxious about my reading and also wanting to read a lot more than I am and |
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