Season 7, Episode 20: Book Superlatives + Fitting In Reading Around The Holidays

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: mistletoe horror and book to screen adaptations
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: how to fit in reading during the holidays
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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4:03 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

4:21 - 25 Days by Per Jacobson

8:50 - Wicked by Gregory McGuire

9:23 - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

9:37 - The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

9:39 - Landlines by Raynor Winn

9:49 - Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

10:43 - Our Current Reads

10:56 - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty (Meredith)

16:15 - The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (Kaytee)

16:24 - Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

16:37 - Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson

16:38 - Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

16:48 - White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson

21:00 - Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth (Meredith, amazon link)

25:29 - Many Things Under a Rock by David Scheel (Kaytee)

28:01 - Secrets of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery

28:03 - The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

29:05 - The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

33:23 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Kaytee)

35:39 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35:54 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

35:55 - Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree

36:56 - Fitting In Reading Around The Holidays

48:27 - Eye of the World by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time #1)

51:37 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:32 - I wish we would take the time to rate our books by superlatives. (Meredith)

54:00 - I wish to have a holiday book exchange instead of a cookie exchange. (Kaytee)

55:46 - Currently Reading Patreon

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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 you should know we will not shy away from
0:21.8	having strong opinions, so get ready.
0:24.7	We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be
0:28.7	spoiler-free.
0:29.7	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a book is steep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:34.3	I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin,
0:38.6	Texas, and I might be into mistletoe horror. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four,
0:45.3	living in Arizona, and I love it when my expectations are blown out of the water. This is
0:50.1	episode number 20 of season seven, and we are so glad you're here.
0:58.7	Yes, having our expectations blown out of the water is one of the best bookish feelings.
1:04.6	It truly is. It so is. I'm excited to hear about mistletal horror, Meredith.
1:16.2	But first, we have a little mischief to manage today. This is our last regular episode of 2024, Meredith, which is very fun. Next week,
1:20.6	we should let everybody know right here at the top that we will have a dark week. It is the Monday leading into the Christmas week. It's just a little bonkers for everybody. It gives us
1:25.4	a little time off, a little breather. The week after that, we do what we've been doing for the past few years, and we are revisiting
1:31.6	a classic currently reading episode. It will be our best of 2020 book lists, which is fun because
1:38.7	that was a whole year in a big way for all of us. Yes. And that list, at least my list, was fantastic.
1:47.8	Honestly, your list is fantastic. I have words. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My list, I was like, good job,
1:53.3	Pass Meredith. Truly, truly good job, past Meredith. We're going to kind of rehash that. We're
1:59.0	going to intro the classic audio, and then we're going to kind of rehash that. We're going to intro the classic audio and then we're
2:01.4	going to recap and reconsider what was happening during 2020 at the end of that episode. So it is
2:07.4	worth a re-listen, but it's not going to be all brand new content. It'll just be like a fun,
2:12.2	easy way to kind of enjoy that week between Christmas and New Year's. But as Anne Patchett says, if you haven't read this book, then it's new to you.
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