Season 6, Episode 36: New Kinds of Books + Managing Our Massive TBRs

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: learning of new kinds of books and creating outdoor reading spaces
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: how we manage our massive TBRs and how we choose our next read
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!

2:55 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

5:56 - Breathless by Amy McCulloch

7:54 - Our Current Reads

8:18 - Confessions by Kanae Minato (Meredith)

11:21 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram

11:22 - @readlexyread on Instagram

11:36 - The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

12:34 - Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum (Kaytee)

14:57 - 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

15:48 - There’s Something I Have To Tell You by Michelle McDonagh (Meredith)

18:25 - The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth

19:40 - Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin (Kaytee)

20:08 - The Happier Podcast

23:48 - Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

27:55 - A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Kaytee)

28:10 - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

32:01 - Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver

32:29 - Deep Dive: Managing Our Massive TBRs

33:09 - Hearts and Daggers Pod

33:43 - Currently Reading Patreon

44:00 - 3 tier rolling cart on Amazon

47:16 - NetGalley

47:51 - Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

50:53 - Half Price Books

51:55 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:14 - I wish people would read The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino. (Meredith)

54:31 - My wish is to share a collaboration between Mychal Threets and PBS. (Kaytee)

55:00 - Mychal Threets on Instagram

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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
0:16.2	time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and as you know we won't shy
0:21.1	away 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.
0:29.0	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a book is steep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:33.7	I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and reading
0:39.1	outside is my new favorite thing.
0:41.6	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for, living in Arizona, and even all these years later,
0:46.8	I'm still learning about new kinds of books.
0:49.6	This is episode number 36 of season 6, and we are so glad you're here.
0:53.4	Hey Katie can I ask you a question I've never asked you before?
0:56.2	Mm. Yes, please.
0:58.0	Is there anything that you do right before we record like every time like a not a not a like a ritual like a
1:06.0	ritual not something that is superstitious but just as a ritual before we
1:11.0	actually sit down or before we hit record.
1:13.0	Either one.
1:14.0	Okay, yeah, every time before we actually hit the record button or while you are doing your intro,
1:19.0	I do a very deep breath in and a very deep breath out as quietly as possible in order to like
1:26.8	center myself in this space and like tune in I guess I don't know it's a little woo-woo but I do it every
1:34.2	single time but you've always done it yeah I think every episode all you know 280
1:39.6	or however many we're up to now that's interesting right obviously'm talking, so I had no idea that you were doing that. You know this about me, but I eat a piece of chocolate every single time before we record, before we record on someone else's show. Anytime I get in front of the mic, I eat one small piece of chocolate.
1:56.6	It just was Easter, so of course we do seed candy for Easter candy.
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