Season 7, Episode 15: Book Talks In The Wild + Reading Rituals

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: book talks in the wild and new Louise Penny books
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: our reading rituals
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:29 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

2:26 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

3:37 - The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

5:10 - Our Current Reads

5:15 - Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood (Kaytee)

8:29 - Peg and Rose Solve a Murder by Laurien Berenson (Meredith)

12:50 - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

14:25 - Bear by Julia Phillips (Kaytee)

14:31 - Booktenders

18:24 - Winter Hours by Mary Oliver (Meredith)

19:02 - A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

21:13 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

22:17 - Upstream by Mary Oliver

22:39 - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (Kaytee)

27:14 - CR Season 6: Episode 48

25:08 - The Book Wanderers by Anna James

27:12 - Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby (Meredith)

31:36 - Our Reading Rituals

38:47 - Book Darts

45:11 - Dual Side cooling blanket

49:36 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:43 - I wish for you to reflect on your “grades” of your reading rituals. (Kaytee)

54:06 - I wish for you to listen to the Poirot Pals podcast if you are like me and getting through all the Hercule Poirot books by Agatha Christie. (Meredith)

54:21 - Poirot Pals Podcast

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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
0:21.7	having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:27.1	and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads,
0:31.1	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four
0:35.9	and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I am living my best bookish life.
0:42.2	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in Arizona.
0:45.3	And if you tell me you like to read, we're already best friends.
0:48.0	This is episode number 15 of season seven, and we are so glad you're here.
0:51.8	Oh, Katie, I do like to read.
0:54.0	Yay! And you are one of my best friends
0:56.6	merrith perfect it already worked see it's like magic it is all right well we are going to tell you
1:03.0	that we are going to have a fun deep dive today we are going to talk about our reading rituals
1:09.2	those silly superstitious strange things that we do as readers
1:16.0	every time the exact same way. And I'll bet that our listeners have some things that they do
1:21.2	themselves. Yes, definitely. I had a lot of fun prepping this deep dive. I know. I love it.
1:26.6	All right. Let's get started, though,
1:28.2	first by talking about our bookish moments of the week. What have you got, Katie? Okay, Meredith.
1:33.1	Last night, I went to this business function, like a real estate business function with a friend.
1:38.4	She's in real estate. I was a clinger. It was very fun. It was outside and gorgeous and just cool enough to need a light jacket,
1:45.0	like the perfect date, right? Which was an exciting change for me because our temperatures just
1:49.3	dropped 20 degrees. So I finally get to get out like pants. Nice. I know. I'm so excited. We met a
1:56.2	couple. We met a lot of people, but one couple, the conversation turned to books. My new best friend,
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