Season 7, Episode 27: Booktube + Finishing A Book Well
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: booktube and libraries enabling our hobbies
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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: how to finish a book well
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:35 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week
4:08 - Megwithbooks on Youtube
6:29 - Blackwell’s UK
6:35 - Our Current Reads
6:43 - All Along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols (Kaytee)
9:04 - Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman (Meredith)
13:13 - Whalefall by Daniel Kraus (Kaytee)
15:25 - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
16:00 - Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
17:08 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
17:27 - A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett (Meredith, releases April 1, 2025)
21:57 - Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang (Kaytee)
24:28 - American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
25:23 - The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson (Meredith)
26:26 - A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
28:37 - Deep Dive: How To Finish A Book Well
38:12 - StoryGraph
39:45 - Currently Reading Patreon (to get the tracker Kaytee mentions)
46:52 - Meet Us At The Fountain
46:56 - I wish it was more socially acceptable to be nosy in people’s reading lives. (Kaytee)
48:49 - I wish everyone would schedule a reading retreat this year. (Meredith)
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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 |
| 0:21.5 | having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, |
| 0:27.0 | and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads, |
| 0:31.7 | a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four |
| 0:36.6 | and full-time CEO living in Austin, |
| 0:38.8 | Texas, and I am still finding new ways to get book recommendations. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling |
| 0:45.1 | mom of four, living in Arizona, and the library is bringing me inspiration in spades. This is episode |
| 0:51.2 | number 27 of season seven, and we are so glad you're here. So many sevens. |
| 0:56.1 | Yes, for sure. And Katie, I am all about my library these days. I am just book after book after |
| 1:02.5 | book is coming to me because of that ability to use my library. It's just the best thing for my |
| 1:08.3 | reading. Reinvigorated. We love that. Yeah, for sure. |
| 1:12.0 | All right, we are going to talk today in our deep dive about how to finish a book well. |
| 1:18.8 | We've had a conversation about how to start a book well. |
| 1:21.8 | Now we're going to talk about what we do when we finish a book and what we think you should be doing too. |
| 1:26.9 | And we're going to have an announcement of an interesting new thing what we think you should be doing too. And we're going to have |
| 1:28.2 | an announcement of an interesting new thing that we're going to be doing to help you out. But before |
| 1:33.2 | we do that, we are going to talk about our bookish moment of the week. Katie, what have you got |
| 1:38.6 | this week? All right, Meredith. Lately, the library has just been enabling me in a lot of ways. |
| 1:44.1 | Thankfully, it is saving me tons of money, which is why we love the library has just been enabling me in a lot of ways. Thankfully, it is saving me |
| 1:45.5 | tons of money, which is why we love the library, right? I love looking for crochet patterns online |
| 1:52.1 | because I'm not an animal, right? Every hooker loves being online looking for crochet patterns. |
| 1:58.0 | I love that crocheters are called hookers, so I will be working that |
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