Season 7, Episode 25: Reading Resolutions + The Art Of The DNF

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Meredith Schwartz

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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: reading resolutions and reading while being tattooed
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: all things DNF: how we define it, how we do it, etc.
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:59 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

2:43 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

2:59 - Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri

11:17 - Our Current Reads

11:23 - Letters From Cuba by Ruth Behar (Kaytee)

17:33 - Murder Road by Simone St. James (Meredith)

22:41 - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

22:44 - The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James

22:47 - The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

23:12 - The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley (Kaytee)

27:32 - A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush (Meredith)

27:58 - @maryoliversdrunkcousin on Instagram

36:37 - Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Kaytee)

37:14 - @lizisreading_ on Instagram

38:01 - Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

39:41 - The Safekeep by Yael Van der Wouden

40:21 - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney (Meredith)

45:04 - His & Hers by Alice Feeney

45:06 - Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney

45:34 - Deep Dive: The Art Of The DNF

59:59 - Meet Us At The Fountain

1:00:10 - I wish to hang out with you all at the Tucson Festival of Books in March. (Kaytee)

1:00:13 - Tucson Festival of Books

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1:01:39 - I wish to let you know about an app I found to track my Agatha Christie reading journey. (Meredith)

1:01:47 - Agatha Christie Reading List app

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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 do not shy away from having
0:22.1	strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:27.5	and our descriptions will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads,
0:31.5	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Mundy Schwartz, a mom of four
0:36.3	and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas,
0:39.0	and I am still making reading resolutions. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom for living in Arizona,
0:46.1	and sometimes stories are what get me through something painful. This is episode number 25 of
0:51.8	season seven, and we are so glad you're here. Oh, Katie, I am so glad to be
0:56.0	here all the time, but especially today because it's been weeks and weeks since I have been
1:00.5	on a regular episode, just because of scheduling things and end of year stuff, but it feels really good.
1:06.7	Like, I have a lot of books I want to talk about. Yes, this past week you were joking with
1:12.1	Megan and I. Be serious, guys. Have I been fired from the show? Because it's been so long,
1:16.5	especially since I got to talk to you, Meredith. Right. Did you guys let me go? And I just didn't
1:20.5	know about it. Never. We would never. All right. So our deep dive today is a topic that for whatever reason, I just keep thinking
1:30.9	about it. I keep hearing about it everywhere. I wanted to talk a little bit, Katie, with you,
1:34.5	about DNFing. I feel like this has been a hot topic recently. It always is at the beginning of the
1:39.5	year. I have some questions for you and at this point in your reading life, how you feel about DNFs.
1:46.5	Yeah, this is like a regular New Year's resolution for me to get better at this.
1:51.0	Yeah, right. So a lot to unpack around the topic of DNFs. We'll do that in our deep dive. But first, of course, we want to start out the way we always do with our bookish moment of the week.
2:01.3	Katie, what is going on in your bookish life this week?
2:04.5	Well, it was something painful, of course, Meredith, because yesterday I got color added to my octopus tattoo.
2:12.0	And it turns out, so I had never had color added to a tattoo before.
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