Season 7, Episode 31: New Learning Apps + Prioritizing Our Own TBR

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: finishing physical books and new learning apps
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: how we balance our TBRs and new releases
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:27 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

3:41 - Vocabulary app

7:54 - @Literallybookshop on Instagram

7:20 - Our Current Reads

7:26 - House of Cotton by Monica Brashears (Kaytee)

8:54 - Exile in Bookville

11:50 - The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha (Meredith)

11:56 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

14:44 - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

16:40 - The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) (Kaytee)

21:33 - It’s Easier Than You Think by Sylvia Boorstein (Meredith)

25:39 - The Best Way To Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale (Kaytee)

25:48 - Booktenders

27:38 - @alexia.casale on Instagram

28:52 - The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore (Meredith)

30:19 - The Sherlockian by Graham Moore

30:21 - The Holdout by Graham Moore=

34:20 - Prioritizing Your Shelves

34:45 - Fabled Bookshop

45:29 - The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

48:20 - Fabled Storybound Subscription

49:30 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:35 - I wish to press (again) the book Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts. (Kaytee)

49:41 - Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

49:48 - Wicked by Gregory Maguire

51:09 - I wish if you have kids and they interrupt your reading, to try reading aloud to them until they get annoyed and leave. (Meredith)

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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 having
0:21.9	strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:27.1	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
0:36.9	and full-time CEO living in
0:38.7	Austin, Texas, and my love of words is a huge part of my love of reading. And I'm Katie Cobb,
0:44.8	a homeschooling mom of four living in Arizona, and I love it when I can drink books down like
0:49.3	shots. This is episode number 31 of season seven, and we are so glad you're here.
0:54.7	Oh, yes, that is very good, and I can't wait to find out exactly what part of shots.
0:59.9	Quick or pleasurable afterwards.
1:04.3	Is it? So we'll get into that.
1:07.3	All right. So we are deep dive today. We will let you know is going to be about, it's going to
1:13.1	actually be an answer to a question that we got from a listener who said, tell me how you
1:17.6	prioritize reading books you already own. How do you prioritize reading your own shelves? So we're
1:23.7	going to get into that. But first, let's get into our bookish moment of the week.
1:28.9	Katie, what have you got? Okay, Meredith, this would not have been a big deal at other times in my
1:34.6	reading life or even other times over the course of the podcast. But this week, I got sucked in
1:40.2	enough to two books that I blasted through two books on paper. And that doesn't seem that
1:47.1	exciting. Although most people know that I'm like 60% audio in my reading. I finished no audio books
1:53.4	this week and two books on paper. And that was huge for me. A, because I really love reading on paper.
1:59.6	And so to have it suck me in enough that I
2:02.3	couldn't put, that I was like walking around with my book is a big deal. And my reading has been
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