Season 6, Episode 5: Fall Reading + Books That Follow Formulas
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Mary are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: reading with family and choosing family's reads
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Current Reads: lots of books great for fall!
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Deep Dive: books that follow a formula, and when it feels phoned in or not
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:40 - Currently Reading Patreon
3:42 - The Novel Neighbor
4:09 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
4:16 - Elizabeth Barnhill on Instagram @wacoreads
6:13 - This Tender Land by William Kent Kreuger
7:33 - Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
7:40 - Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kreuger
7:46 - Holly by Stephen King
7:58 - Current Reads
8:06 - A Death In Door County by Annelise Ryan (Mary)
9:53 - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
10:44 - Death in the Dark Woods by Annelise Ryan (releases December 2023)
11:43 - Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent (Meredith)
13:39 - Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent
15:36 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live
16:25 - The Maid by Nita Prose
18:17 - The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston (Mary)
18:26 - The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
21:34 - Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia and Bill Gifford (Meredith)
23:06 - Oprah Daily “The Life You Want” talk w/Dr. Peter Attia (this is for Oprah Daily subscribers. I tried finding it elsewhere and no luck. Sorry friends!)
26:08 - Tim Ferriss and Dr. Peter Attia episode #517
27:06 - Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano (Mary)
29:39 - @what_amy_reads on Instagram
29:48 - The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
29:56 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King
32:00 - DM Mary on Instagram if you read Dead Eleven @maryreadsandsips
32:21 - The Governess Game by Tessa Dare (Meredith)
37:58 - Deep Dive: Books That Follow Formulas
38:08 - The Only One Left by Riley Sager
48:43 - Meet Us At The Fountain
48: 53 - I wish everyone would find their bookish joy and be totally extra about it. (Mary)
50:22 - I wish everyone would follow Mary on Instagram! (Meredith)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've |
| 0:17.9 | read recently and as you know we don't shy away from having strong opinions so get ready. |
| 0:24.2 | We are light on the tit chat, heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be |
| 0:28.4 | spoiler free. |
| 0:29.4 | Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive and then we'll visit the fountain. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Meredith Mendeshwarz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas and |
| 0:39.0 | reading with my husband is such a delight. |
| 0:42.1 | And I'm Mary Heim, a therapist and working mom of one living in Wisconsin and I have recently |
| 0:47.1 | been reminded to never say never about your own literary tastes. |
| 0:51.7 | This is episode number five of season six and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:55.6 | Oh Mary, I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:57.3 | We haven't gotten a chance to record together for a long time. |
| 1:00.4 | It's been really long. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm so excited, Meredith. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:04.1 | I know. |
| 1:05.1 | We have a lot of bookish things to talk about for sure. |
| 1:07.1 | Okay. |
| 1:08.1 | So two things that we want to let you guys know about first of all, we're going to let |
| 1:10.8 | you know that our deep dive today is going to be about books that follow formulas. |
| 1:16.7 | Formuleic reading, is it a good thing? |
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