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Season 7, Episode 14: Bookish Lego + Boss My TBR

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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

  • Bookish Moments: following us on Instagram and new bookish lego sets

  • Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately

  • Deep Dive: we are bossing more TBRs!

  • The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site)

1:24 - Ad For Ourselves

1:37 - Currently Reading Patreon

5:02 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

5:44 - @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram

9:40 - Books Are My Passion Lego

12:23 - Our Current Reads

12:39 - The Hollow by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

16:41 - Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie

16:43 - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

17:26 - A Pirate’s Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne (Kaytee)

18:52 - Can’t Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

20:15 - @megs.tea.room on Instagram

20:21 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

21:09 - Daily Rituals by Mason Currey (Meredith)

26:27 - On Writing by Stephen King 

27:07 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Kaytee)

27:14 - CR Season 7: Episode 7

31:40 - 17 Years Later by J.P. Pomare (Meredith)

36:53 - Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Kaytee)

40:00 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

41:40 - Boss My TBR

From Morgan N.

42:35 - The Art Thief by Michael Finkle

42:37 - Hyde by Craig Russell

42:39 - Diavola by Jennifer Thorne

42:41 - The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman

42:43 - Slewfoot by Brom

42:50 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

42:52 - The Examiner by Janice Hallett

From Katie P.

46:42- Making It So by Patrick Stewart

46:50 - The Dry by Jane Harper

46:52 - Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (amazon link)

47:02 - The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

47:06 - The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

47:24 - This Motherless Land by Nikki May

47:27 - Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London

50:55 - Meet Us At The Fountain

51:30 - I wish books would have shorter chapters. (Meredith)

51:03 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

51:11 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

53:13 - @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram (Meredith’s wish #2 is to follow us!!)

53:24 - I wish to press Taste by Stanley Tucci into everybody’s hands. (Kaytee)

53:24 - Taste by Stanley Tucci

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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 talking about the books that we've read recently. And as you know, we won't shy away from those

0:21.6

strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, and our

0:26.7

descriptions will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive,

0:31.6

and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time

0:35.9

CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I want to connect with more readers.

0:40.7

And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in Arizona, and I'm looking forward to building more bookshelves.

0:46.9

This is episode number 14 of season seven, and we are so glad you're here.

0:51.2

Meredith, you know I love it when you connect with readers.

0:55.7

Right. And also, never, ever a bad time for more bookshelves. You know, and I have a very special bookshelf to talk

1:00.7

about today. Oh, good. Good. First, though, I'm going to let everybody know right here at the top

1:05.5

that our deep dive today, we are bossing two new victims, volunteers for their TBR this week, and I'm very excited to get to

1:13.5

them. And we also have a bit of mischief to manage. So it's the first Monday of the month. It is

1:19.5

November 4th right now. And that means it's time for our only ad of the month, an ad for ourselves.

1:25.8

This month, for November, we are just trying

1:28.1

to save you money, girls and friends and gays and days. We got all of you in this money saving train.

1:34.4

Starting in November of 2024, all new Patreon memberships made through the app on Apple devices

1:41.2

are going to have 40% added to the cost because of Apple's new store

1:46.2

fee. We don't want to pass those charges along to you, but otherwise we have to eat it ourselves.

1:52.6

40% of the cost, Meredith, that's so much money. So we just want you to make sure to use a computer

1:58.7

to join Patreon or a browser or a laptop or just not an

2:03.1

Apple App Store device in order to avoid that fee. There's no reason for you to have to pay that.

2:10.1

And this only applies to new memberships going forward. So if you have already been our patron

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