Season 7, Episode 10: Readers In The Wild + Authors We Would Mourn Over

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: being the bookish person at work and discussing books in grocery stores
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: authors we would take a day off to mourn over
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:24 - Ad For Ourselves

1:28 - Currently Reading Patreon

1:59 - The Novel Neighbor

4:08 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

4:38 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

4:44 - Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara

6:50 - The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

8:14 - Our Current Reads

8:29 - Defy the Night by Brigid Kemmerer (Meredith)

8:33 - CR Season 6: Episode 48

10:19 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

14:19 - Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly (Kaytee)

14:25 - A Room of One’s Own bookshop

17:12 - Interesting Facts about Space by Emily Austin

17:16 - An Unlikely Story

17:41 - Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley (Meredith)

17:52 - The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

24:57 - Let the Games Begin by Rufaro Faith Mazarura (Kaytee)

28:15 - Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent (Meredith)

29:47 - Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent

33:08 - River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer (Kaytee)

36:58 - Authors We Would Mourn Over

46:03 - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

50:00 - Meet Us At The Fountain

50:09 - I wish I could sometimes read like my husband does. (Meredith)

51:33 - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

53:36 - I wish to press This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (Kaytee)

53:37 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

53:57 - Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly

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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
0:16.4	talking about the books that we've read recently and as you know we won't shy away from
0:21.0	having strong opinions so get ready. We are light on the
0:24.8	chit chat heavy on the book talk and our descriptions will always be spoiler free.
0:28.6	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:33.6	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I love
0:38.9	being bookish in all corners of my life.
0:42.2	And I'm Katie Kom, a homeschooling mom of four, living in Arizona,
0:45.5	and I'll take some groceries with my book talk.
0:48.0	This is episode number 10 of season 7,
0:50.0	and we are so glad you're here.
0:52.0	Meredith, I'm sensing a theme. Yes absolutely we are bookish
0:56.0	absolutely everywhere we go all the places that's correct let's let everybody know right at the top
1:02.0	here that we are gonna have a deep dive today on which authors we would have to take a day off for morning if they died.
1:09.0	This is very fresh for me today, so let's hope I can make it through. But first we have some mischief to manage. It's the first Monday of the month, the first Monday of October, one of our favorite months of the year. And so we want to talk a little bit about the indie press list this month on our one ad for ourselves.
1:26.0	Right, so if you join us as a bookish friend, you guys have heard us talk about this, it's $5 a month and you get access to all of our
1:34.6	content you get all things murderful you get love and chili peppers you get the
1:41.2	indie press list where of course we work with an independent bookstore each month all around the country and they give us a stack of usually five books.
1:50.0	In October, we have really, really started in the last several years,
1:56.1	October has been very special.
1:57.9	We work with the novel neighbor in St. Louis, Missouri,
2:01.3	and they are just especially good at spooky reading.
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