Season 6, Episode 32: Book Signings + Revisiting What Is Working and Not Working In Our Reading Lives

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: book signings and reading retreats
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: revisiting what is working and what isn’t working in our current reading lives
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:23 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:45 - CR Season 5: Episode 37

4:17 - An Unlikely Story bookshop

4:45 - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

6:20 - Our Current Reads

6:51 - One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall (Meredith)

12:21 - My Other Husband by Dorothy Koomson (Kaytee)

12:26 - The Friend by Dorothy Koomson (amazon link)

15:23 - Blackwell’s

16:33 - The Golden Gate by Amy Chua (Meredith)

18:15 - The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (Penguin Random House link)

21:42 - @pieladybooks on Instagram

22:43 - A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow (Kaytee)

25:48 - The Deep by River Solomon

25:51 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

25:53 - Sing Me To Sleep by Gabi Burton

27:17 - Near the Bone by Christina Henry (Meredith)

28:54 - @mother.horror on Instagram

32:10 - No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister (Kaytee)

35:50 - Deep Dive: Revisiting What Is Working and Not Working In Our Reading Lives

44:06 - Eye of the World (Wheel of Time #1) by Robert Jordan

44:18 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

57:14 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:27 - I wish if you buddy read, find a reader who reads in different genres than you do. (Meredith)

59:32 - I wish to implement SSR in my home. (Kaytee)

1:00:05 - @books.are.word.tacos on Instagram

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0:00.0	Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend
0:16.1	time every week talking about the books that we've read recently, and as you know, we won't
0:20.9	shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready.
0:24.5	We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be
0:27.9	spoiler free.
0:28.9	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:33.5	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and reading
0:39.4	for days on end is my favorite thing.
0:42.8	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom for living in Arizona,
0:46.1	and I'm wondering if it's possible to fall head over heels for someone you've never met.
0:50.4	This is episode number 32 of season six, and we are so glad you're here.
0:54.4	Meredith I can't wait to hear about your retreat because I'm guessing that's going to be
0:58.1	your bookish moment this week. That is right yes we had a very, very good time.
1:03.0	Excellent. We will get to those in just a minute.
1:05.8	First, I want to let everybody know at the top of the show
1:08.4	that our deep dive today, we've visited this before.
1:11.0	It's time for a revisit of what's working or not working in our reading lives right now.
1:15.8	It's always good to have a little bit of time for self-reflection on that front, so we'll be doing that for the deep dive.
1:20.9	But first, we'll get started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week.
1:25.0	All right Katie yes so this week once a year me and a few of my bookish best friends go away to not very far away here in Texas we go to the lake we rent an
1:36.1	air b and we have our annual reading retreat which consists of a very, very tight schedule.
1:44.0	I mean, we are extremely devoted to our schedule.
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