Season 7, Episode 19: New Book Subscriptions + Wishes To The Holiday Book Fairy
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: new book subscriptions and audiobooks coming in clutch
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Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
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Deep Dive: we make wishes to the holiday book fairy
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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:10 - Bite Size Intro
1:01 - Book of the Month
1:36 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week
1:46 - Aardvark Book Club
4:07 - Book of the Month
6:28 - The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
7:58 - AirPods 4
9:34 - Our Current Reads
9:37 - Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin (Kaytee)
11:33 - Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb
13:48 - The Echo Man by Sam Holland (Meredith)
18:08 - The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup
18:24 - We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado (Kaytee)
24:47 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (Meredith)
24:55 - A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
27:24 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
29:24 - The Night In Question by Susan Fletcher (Kaytee)
31:35 - A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
31:39 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
32:07 - Roscoe’s Books
32:21 - CR Season 6: Episode 48
33:39 - A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews (Meredith)
39:50 - Wishes To The Holiday Book Fairy
50:29 - Meet Us At The Fountain
50:44 - I wish to press The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede. (Kaytee)
50:45 - The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
52:47 - I wish to remind you about Christmas ASMR rooms. (Meredith)
53:08 - Old Library Christmas ASMR Room
53:19 - Winter Morning ASMR Room
53:36 - Christmas Fireplace ASMR Room
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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 |
| 0:21.7 | having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, |
| 0:27.0 | and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads, |
| 0:31.6 | a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four |
| 0:36.7 | and full-time CEO living in Austin, |
| 0:39.3 | Texas, and apparently audiobooks are my best friend too. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling |
| 0:44.7 | mama four living in Arizona, and my current book subscription is really scratching the itch. |
| 0:49.8 | This is episode number 19 of season seven, and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:54.0 | Well, that'll be good, Katie, because, you know, this weekend, I feel like I've been hearing a lot of grumblings of people saying they are not as happy with Book of the Month as they have been. |
| 1:03.1 | Well, I have a lovely alternative. |
| 1:05.6 | I know, I know. |
| 1:06.7 | I love that. |
| 1:07.2 | All right. |
| 1:07.8 | First, we will let you know that we are going to make three bookish wishes |
| 1:13.2 | of the holiday book fairy. All right. We did an episode where we wished different things from |
| 1:19.6 | the book fairy a while ago, but it wasn't holiday related. This is the holiday book fairy, |
| 1:24.9 | and I'm very excited to visit her. Yes, me too. |
| 1:28.2 | She grants wishes like Santa. |
| 1:30.1 | Exactly. |
| 1:31.0 | But in a very bookish way. |
| 1:32.6 | All right. |
| 1:33.4 | Before we get into that, though, let's talk about our bookish moments of the week. |
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