Season 6, Episode 33: Crumble and Chronicles + Changes In Our Reading Lives Over Time

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: pastries while reading and huge bookish hangovers
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: the ways our reading lives and changed and expanded over time
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

3:11 - Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

4:45 - All The Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Releases June 25, 2024)

7:30 - Our Current Reads

7:36 - The Night Raven by Johan Rundberg (Roxanna)

14:09 - The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson (Meredith)

18:09 - The Fact of a Body by Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich

21:54 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang (Roxanna)

22:51 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

26:06 - Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber (Meredith)

27:14 - Caraval by Stephanie Garber

31:22 - In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (Roxanna)

31:51 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

31:54 - Finding Me by Viola Davis

36:23 - Better the Blood by Michael Bennett (Meredith)

41:24 - Deep Dive: Changes In Our Reading Lives Over Time

47:27 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

48:07 - City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

49:55 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

50:39 - 10 Things To Tell You podcast w/ Sara Hildreth

50:42 - @fictionmatters on Instagram

53:36 - Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

53:45 - Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

55:48 - Burning Roses by S.L. Huang

58:55 - A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P. Djeli Clark

1:00:32 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:00:45- I wish everyone knows about shepherd.com (Roxanna)

1:00:52 - Strong Sense of Place podcast

1:01:17 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

1:03:19 - Shogun by James Clavell

1:03:28 - CR Season 1: Episode 14

1:04:45 - I wish more people would read Shogun. (Meredith)

1:05:18 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

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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
0:15.8	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.
0:24.0	We're light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free.
0:29.0	Today, we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:33.7	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I read very
0:40.0	differently than I did five years ago. And I'm Roxanna Kasam Kara, a mom, a marketer, and a mood reader living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
0:49.0	And I love to play reading ping-pong.
0:51.0	This is episode number 33 of season six, and we're so glad you're here.
0:54.9	All right well we are so glad to be here together Roxana it's been a while since we've
0:59.6	recorded this show together we do journey to three Pines of course, but we haven't been able to
1:05.2	record this show together for a long time, so it was super excited that we were
1:08.9	going to get a chance to do it. We'll let you guys know right up front that we are
1:12.3	going to talk later in the show about the different ways that Roxanna and I have expanded our reading lives, right?
1:20.0	So we're not the same readers we were a few years ago.
1:23.2	Some of that is just organic change,
1:25.4	and some of it is changes we've made on purpose.
1:27.9	So we're going to talk a little bit more about that.
1:29.8	Can't wait.
1:30.4	All right, but first, let's get to our bookish moments of the week.
1:34.3	What is the most bookish thing for you this week, Roxanna?
1:38.0	Well, Meredith, I have been on a real bookish tear
1:41.0	these past few weeks, which is not usual for me you know you once so
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