Season 7, Episode 1: Reading What We Want + What We Did Over Summer Break

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: reading about new hobbies and talking about books to everyone IRL
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: recapping our summer vacation
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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:10 Ad For Ourselves

1:35 - Currently Reading Patreon

4:03 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

4:37 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

4:40 - Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb

4:44 - Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper

7:00 - Our Current Reads

7:05 - Acts of Forgiveness by Maura Cheeks (Kaytee)

10:48 - Nine Lives by Peter Swanson (Meredith)

12:51 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

14:35 - Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nacosta (Kaytee)

18:11 - Unhinged by Vera Valentine

18:16 - The Dragon’s Bride by Katee Robert

19:44 - Day One by Abigail Dean (Meredith)

21:39 - Girl A by Abigail Dean

23:29 - The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill (Kaytee)

23:38 - The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

28:08 - Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman (Meredith)

29:23 - Falling by T.J. Newman

29:25 - Drowning by T.J. Newman

39:01 - Deep Dive: What We Did On Our Summer Break

35:03 - The Boulder Bookstore

35:10 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

38:49 - Half Price Books

49:43 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:57 - I wish for us all to vote in any upcoming election you may have. (Kaytee)

52:18 - I wish that every July Texas would be cloudy and rainy because it does wonders for my reading life. (Meredith)

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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
0:15.8	time every week talking about the books that we've read recently, and as you know, we won't shy
0:20.6	away from having strong opinions, so get ready. We are light on the chit-chat,
0:25.0	heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler free.
0:28.8	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive,
0:31.7	and then we'll visit the fountain. I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:33.2	I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and it turns
0:38.6	out I absolutely need to talk about books regularly.
0:42.3	And I'm Katie Com, a homeschooling mama four,
0:44.4	living in Arizona, and I am energized and ready
0:47.1	for a brand new season.
0:48.4	This is episode number one of season seven,
0:51.4	and we are so glad you're here. Oh season 7 I love it I love it so much it sounds so good. I know
0:57.9	7 is like so many people's lucky number I'm very excited about this season. I love it. I love it so much. All right, so we will let you know that we are going to talk in our deep dive today about of course what we did over our summer break. That's always how we come back into each
1:14.9	new season. So we'll get to that in a little bit. But first we are going to talk a little bit because
1:22.2	it's the first episode of the month.
1:24.6	We are going to talk a little bit about our bookish friends and all the things that you get
1:30.9	if you become a bookish friend, which of course means you join us as a
1:35.6	patron subscriber. It's five dollars a month. Katie this month of course our big
1:41.1	thing that we've been talking about is we launched our brand new temple
1:45.3	content Love and Chili Peppers which is completely focused on the romance genre
1:51.8	with you and Rebecca Hoffer and we got a tremendous response to it
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