Season 6, Episode 8: Getting Chatty + What Is Working In Our Reading Lives

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: trips overseas and checking out home decor books
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: what is working for us in our reading lives
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:53 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

6:15 - Current Reads

6:46 - The Last One by Will Dean (Meredith)

9:41 - Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard

10:58 - To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Kaytee)

11:05 - Capital Books

11:08 - Parnassus Books

14:36 - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novick (Meredith)

18:33 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

19:01 - All The Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby (Kaytee)

20:22 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

23:08 - Down the Hill by Susan Hendricks

23:24 - In Light of All Darkness by Kim Cross (Meredith)

24:45 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

28:51 - Waypoints by Sam Heughan (Kaytee)

30:16 - Wild by Cheryl Strayed

33:59 - Deep Dive: What Is Working In Our Reading Lives

Switching up the format of a book (Meredith)

36:26 - Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Freedom of reading… within constraints (Kaytee)

Going in blind to books (Meredith)

Putting ebooks or audiobooks on hold via the library that I already physically own and limiting myself to one stack at a time (Kaytee)

42:18 - The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

Doing close reads of not just Three Pines, but any other book I feel the urge (Meredith)

43:01 - Ezeekat on Instagram

44:15 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

Finding a new time to read (Kaytee)

46:35 - Meet Us At The Fountain

47:02 - I wish more people would explore the works by Anne Perry, specifically the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series. (Meredith)

47:13 - The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry

48:18 - I wish to press The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

48:20 - The Anthroprocene Reviewed by John Green

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast.
0:13.9	We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've
0:17.7	read recently, and as you know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions.
0:23.0	So get ready.
0:24.0	We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always
0:27.4	be spoiler free.
0:28.6	Today, we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the
0:32.7	fountain.
0:33.7	I'm Meredith Munde Schwartz, a Mama 4 and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, but by the
0:38.7	time you hear this, I'll be in London.
0:41.6	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling Mama 4 living in Arizona, and I am carving out new
0:46.0	reading spaces in my home and in my life.
0:49.0	This is episode number 8 of season 6, and we are so glad you're here.
0:53.2	Katie, we're so glad to hear about the newness in your reading and in your life.
0:57.1	That's going to be fun.
0:58.1	Meredith, I could have echoed your exact same bite-sized intro because I will also be
1:02.3	oversees by the time this episode airs, and I'm so excited.
1:05.9	I know.
1:06.9	We are abandoning the US here at Currently Reading.
1:09.7	We're going to make sure the ship sails itself while we are gone, but yes, we are abandon
1:15.4	ship.
1:16.4	That's true.
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