Season 7, Episode 17: Book Dealers + Raising Readers

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: book buying sprees and being book pushers
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: how to and how not to raise readers
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

2:04 - Thriftbooks

2:09 - I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

2:15 - Bookshop.org

5:57 - Our Current Reads

6:09 - Us by Sara Soler (Kaytee)

8:51 - Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

9:47 - Foe by Iain Reid (Meredith)

11:43 - I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

14:40 - The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Kaytee)

16:26 - Hatchet by Gary Paulson

16:45 - CR Season 2: Episode 21

18:13 - Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson (Meredith)

21:24 - Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

22:38 - How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

23:06 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes (Kaytee)

23:15 - CR Season 5: Episode 31

25:07 - A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

25:17 - The Children of Jacosta by Natalie Haynes

26:46 - The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny (Meredith)

30:38 - State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton

37:45 - Raising Readers

40:55 - CR Season 1: Episode 28 w/ Jackson and Micah

45:40 - Dungeons and Drama by Kirsty Boyce
46:29 - The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer (Land of Stories #1)
50:26 - The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

53:23 - Meet Us At The Fountain

53:29 - I wish for someone to pick your next read. (Kaytee)

55:57 - I wish to recommend the book The Family Game by Catherine Steadman (Meredith)

55:57 - The Family Game by Catherine Steadman

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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
0:22.5	strong opinions. You're going to need to get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book
0:27.5	talk, and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free. Today, we'll discuss our current reads,
0:32.1	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four
0:37.1	and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas,
0:39.8	and I love that books help me find so many points of connection.
0:43.7	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, living in Arizona,
0:46.8	and I have been stressed buying books like there's no tomorrow.
0:50.1	This is episode number 17 of season seven, and we're so glad you're here.
0:53.7	Oh, there is nothing so glad you're here.
1:00.5	There is nothing like a good stress buying session.
1:02.9	Of anything that brings you joy, really.
1:03.5	Sure.
1:05.8	Yeah, but books are my go-to.
1:06.3	Oh, for sure.
1:07.0	For sure.
1:08.0	All right.
1:10.4	We are going to get into that more. We also will tell you that our deep dive today
1:13.5	is about raising readers. We got a question from one of our listeners about how to raise readers or
1:22.2	how not to, which is kind of an interesting spin on it too. So we'll get into that later on. But first,
1:28.7	let's get to our bookish moment of the week. Katie, did you have a bookish week this week?
1:33.5	I actually did, Meredith, with a, it's just so exciting for me because I've had a lot of bookish
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