Season 6, Episode 40: Accepting Feedback + Our Top 5 Reads of 2024 (So Far!)

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Meredith Schwartz

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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: accepting bookish feedback and purging our bookshelves
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: our current top 5 reads of 2024
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:29 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

9:18 - Our Current Reads

9:53 - The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Meredith)

17:02 - Gwen & Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher (Kaytee)

20:29 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartman (Meredith)

20:36 - @mother.horror on Instagram

25:57 - The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe (Kaytee)

28:18 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

28:20 - One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

29:07 - Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy (Meredith)

30:05 - An Unlikely Story

30:30 - Commonplace Books

32:26 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

33:43 - Sociopath by Patric Gagne (Kaytee)

39:23 - Our Top 5 Reads of 2024 (So Far)

42:36 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker

43:24 - Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsen (Kaytee)

43:56 - The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger (Meredith)

44:43 - A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams (Kaytee)

44:57 - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

45:12 - Confessions by Kanae Minato (Meredith)

46:11 - Wolfsong by T.J. Klune (Kaytee)

47:30 - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Meredith)

48:36 - James by Percival Everett (Kaytee)

49:32 - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Meredith)

50:06 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

51:17 - Family Family by Laurie Frankel (Kaytee)

52:19 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Meredith)

54:40 - Meet Us At The Fountain

54:51 - I wish you could bottle up the feeling of reading a book for the first time. (Meredith)

54:56 - Family Family by Laurie Frankel

54:57 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

55:45 - I wish I could press All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle. (Kaytee)

56:17 - All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle

57:11 - Minisode w/Mike Gayle

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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 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 are light on the chit chat, having on the book talk,
0:26.3	and our descriptions will always be spoiler free.
0:28.5	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive,
0:31.3	and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:32.8	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas,
0:37.8	and I love reading all kinds of books.
0:41.2	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling momama for living in Arizona, and I can always get behind a good
0:46.6	bookshelf purge.
0:48.3	This is episode number 40 of season 6, and we are so glad you're here.
0:52.1	Yes, a good purge that feels so good.
0:55.8	There's something to be said for grabbing a book and saying you know what I just
1:00.4	know you are not the right book for me in my bookshelf like it takes something to get over that.
1:05.3	Yeah well yeah in a lot of ways for sure we're gonna talk about that a little more I'll let everybody know here at the top though that today for our deep dive we are going to be trying to figure out if we can identify our top five books of the year so far.
1:20.0	It's like a little fun mid-year-ish check-in not quite mid-year obviously but we're going to talk about that for a little bit
1:26.8	First we'll get started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week Meredith what is yours
1:31.8	All right Katie so we in the last couple of weeks have gotten a couple of pieces of feedback
1:38.5	that were really similar one to the other, and whenever you get some really similar similar feedback I think you have to look at it and say okay let me look let me look at that and the feedback was that I have been bringing a lot of murder to the podcast.
1:56.5	And so I don't know if you know this about me, Katie,
1:59.3	but I don't take criticism very well initially.
2:03.4	Well, I know you.
2:05.4	Yeah, I know.
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