Season 6, Episode 35: Book Subscriptions + Book Wishes To The Book Fairy
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: changing up book subscriptions and implementing new technology into our 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: what would we ask the book fairy to change in our books
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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**We are aware of a sound quality issue with Kaytee’s audio. We are in the works to hopefully get that fixed soon! Thanks for hanging with us through it!
1:35 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
1:51 - Satisfiction Book Subscription
2:18 - Fairyloot
2:19 - Illumicrate
2:20 - OwlCrate
3:00 - @Meredithmondayschwartz on Instagram
7:33 - Our Current Reads
7:42 - Betty by Tiffany McDaniel (Kaytee)
7:48 - Booktenders
10:57 - @authortiffanymcdaniel on Instagram
12:02 - An Unlikely Story
12:04 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Meredith)
17:58 - Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones (Kaytee)
20:14 - I Take My Coffee Black by Tyler Merritt
20:49 - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
21:49 - Born A Crime by Trevor Noah (young readers version)
22:21 - Rabbit by Patricia Williams
22:46 - The Gathering by C.J. Tudor (Meredith)
24:18 - The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
24:20 - The Drift by C.J. Tudor
26:49 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune (Kaytee)
28:48 - The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune
28:52 - The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
28:54 - Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
31:35 - The Force of Such Beauty by Barbara Bourland (Meredith)
36:14 - Deep Dive: Book Wishes To The Book Fairy
40:01 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
56:38 - First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
49:09 - Meet Us At The Fountain
49:21 - I wish everyone would follow @weeklyhomecheck on Instagram. (Kaytee)
50:36 - I wish everyone would listen to the podcast The Canada Reads Podcast (Meredith)
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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 every week |
| 0:16.7 | talking about the books that we've read recently and as you know we won't shy away from having |
| 0:21.6 | strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.1 | We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be |
| 0:28.1 | spoiler free. Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll |
| 0:32.3 | visit the fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I love |
| 0:39.4 | technology that improves my reading life. Me too. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Katie Kom, a homeschooling mom before living in Arizona, |
| 0:46.0 | and I get a big serotonin hit from book mail. |
| 0:49.0 | This is episode number 35 of season six, |
| 0:52.0 | and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:53.2 | All right, we are so glad to be here. |
| 0:56.2 | Katie, I'm really looking forward to this deep dive that we're going to do later on in the show |
| 1:01.7 | because I had no idea about it until I looked at our document, which is the document that just tells me, hey, this is the deep dive for this week. |
| 1:08.0 | Here it is. What spells would the Book Fairy perform on your books if you could sort of have anything I love |
| 1:16.1 | this idea yes this came from a tick talk that one of our bookish friends shared in the |
| 1:20.7 | bookish friends group so it's a little bit of a draw from a library, I believe in Michigan that decided to put this spell into action. |
| 1:29.0 | I love it. I'm so excited. So that's going to be our deep dive. first let's get started the way we always do with |
| 1:35.5 | our bookish moments of the week Katie what have you got all right Meredith I have |
| 1:39.6 | been switching up my book subscription services to try to get my reading dialed back in to where I love getting new books and book mail and whatnot. |
| 1:48.5 | This week I got off the wait list for one called Satisfiction, that Satisfaction, but with Fiction in the back end. |
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