Season 6, Episode 43: Meeting Bookish Friends + Starting New Books

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: meeting bookish friends and “salt” books
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: difficulty in starting new books
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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:10 - Bite Size Intro

2:14 - Currently Reading Patreon

5:50 - PLEASE send us your Ask Us Anything questions to [email protected]

6:43 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

11:13 - The Stand by Stephen King

12:17 - Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

14:50 - Our Current Reads

14:58 - Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah (Roxanna)

15:02 - Canada Reads

16:56 - How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

19:38 - Diavola by Jennifer Thorne (Meredith)

21:35 - @mother.horror on Instagram

24:10 - The Ghoul of Windydown Vale by Jake Burt (Roxanna)

29:21 - In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides (Meredith)

34:15 - Funny Story by Emily Henry (Roxanna)

38:02 - Small Change by Roan Parrish

43:43 - The Mars House by Natasha Pulley (Meredith - Meredith mistakenly said Mars Room initially. Sorry for the confusion!)

45:03 - Charter Books

45:42 - The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

49:51 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

49:56 - Babel by R.F. Kuang

52:16 - The Measure by Nikki Erlick

53:40 - The Difficulty Of Starting A New Book

57:54 - Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

1:01:19 - The Feast by Margaret Kennedy

1:02:07 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

1:02:12 - The One by John Marrs

1:02:21 - Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

1:04:07 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:04:11 - I wish everyone would watch Butterfly in the Sky on Netflix. (Roxanna)

1:04:14 - Butterfly in the Sky on Netflix

1:06:37 - Hello Bookstore

1:07:11 - I wish everyone would reflect on how summer reading affects your reading life. (Meredith)

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Transcript

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0:16.2	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 those 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 needs, 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 might be reading
0:40.2	too many books at once.
0:42.4	And I'm Roxanna Casam Kara, a mom, a marketer, and a mood reader living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
0:49.0	And I am just so excited to meet my very best bookish friend in person.
0:54.4	This is episode number 43 of season six and we're so glad you're here.
0:58.8	Oh man Roxana we will get into that because I am very very much looking forward to that too. But first
1:05.7	we have a couple of things that we need to get started. This is the first episode
1:10.0	of the month but before we get into what that means I will tell you that our deep dive
1:15.3	today is going to be kind of a reading therapy session and the topic is why is it
1:22.3	sometimes so hard to start new books right this is not necessarily
1:28.3	problem that I have rock dana but it's a problem that you struggle with and that so many bookish friends have brought up.
1:35.1	So I think it's a great deep dive.
1:37.3	Yes and I had seen a Facebook post on this and I just immediately sent it to you
1:41.1	Meredith because I said this is definitely the head space I'm in and I think a lot of other
1:45.8	readers are there and when you offer to talk about it I thought oh great because I could really use
1:51.2	some guidance here and I think a lot of readers going into summer change of
1:55.0	season transition are probably finding this hard too so I think it's going to be a
1:59.1	great deep dive. Exactly. All right let's get a little bit of business managed.
2:03.5	As I said, it's the first episode of the month, which means it's the one time that we talk a little
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