Season 6, Episode 42: New Used Books + Our Recent DNFs and NRNs

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: more bookish podcasts and new to us books
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: books we have recently DNFd or NRNd
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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:10 - Bite Size Intro

:57 - Half Priced Books

1:26 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

1:41 - Talking Scared Podcast

1:48 - Tea & Murder Podcast

4:01 - PangoBooks

4:28 - Bookmans

5:34 - Our Current Reads

6:03 - Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis (Meredith)

7:33 - An Unlikely Story

9:11 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

9:26 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

9:57 - Fabled Bookshop

9:58 - Bear Necessity by James Gold-Bourn (Kaytee)

13:38 - The Field Guide To Dumb Birds of the Whole World by Matt Kracht (Meredith)

14:34 - Merlin App

14:55 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

13:48 - Charter Books

17:48 - The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America by Matt Kracht

19:52 - The Rhythm of Time by Questlove and S.A. Cosby (Kaytee)

23:47 - The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson (Meredith)

24:59 - The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker

27:14 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram

27:44 - Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (Kaytee)

28:06 - Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

32:14 - Our Recent DNFs and NRNs

33:08 - The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (Meredith)

34:12 - Jade City by Fonda Lee (Kaytee)

36:37 - The Wolf at the Table by Adam Rapp (Meredith)

38:29 - Sunshine, Sangria and Scandal by Wendy Day (Kaytee)

40:19 - Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

40:44 - The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan (Meredith, Wheel of Time series #2)

41:27 - Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Meredith)

43:16 - Keynan Masters and the Peerless Magic Crew by Davaun Sanders (Kaytee)

44:45 - Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

46:25 - Meet Us At The Fountain

47:16 - I wish there was an easier way to find trusted sources’ reviews on Goodreads. (Meredith)

48:42 - Meredith’s Goodreads

49:02 - I wish to reject the notion that more books equals a better reading life. (Kaytee)

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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
0:17.1	talking about the books that we've read recently and as you know we won't shy away from
0:21.8	having strong opinions so get ready.
0:24.3	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 visit the fountain.
0:34.0	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas,
0:39.0	and I love to find a new bookish podcast.
0:42.0	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom for living in Arizona and
0:45.4	sometimes trading in used books for used books feels like magic. This is episode
0:50.4	number 42 of season six and we are so glad you're here.
0:54.0	Oh Katie, we, I just sent Johnny to the half-price books with a look, like every quarter.
1:00.6	He goes with like a load of books and then comes back with credits and I'm just like that's real magic it's so exciting I love a good half-price books session yeah for sure okay I'm to let everybody know at the top here that we're going to talk about something that we don't think we've ever done before. We're going to toss around some of our recent DNF or not right now books that we've had lately in our reading lives but first we'll get
1:25.0	started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week. Meredith what is
1:29.2	yours? All right well as I said it is a joy of my life when I find a new book
1:35.4	podcast that I'm really, really into.
1:37.8	And I talked a couple of months ago about finding talking scared, which is a fantastic podcast about horror. I have found a new
1:47.2	podcast called T. And Murder, which is hosted by Rebecca Tandy Norman.
1:53.4	Basically, she takes one Agatha Christie book, every episode,
1:58.0	and talks about it with spoilers,
2:01.0	with an author who also happens to really love Agatha Christie.
2:06.2	So they, it's really good.
2:08.7	The content is excellent.
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