Season 7, Episode 34: Reading What We Want + Our Reading Life Temp Checks

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Meredith Schwartz

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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: reading what we want and bookish get togethers
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: we check in on our reading lives
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:40 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

2:17 - The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

4:19 - Warwick’s

5:29 - Our Current Reads

8:03 - The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda (Meredith)

13:37 - Confessions by Kanae Minato

14:25 - Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salenda Godden (Kaytee)

15:05 - Foyles Bookstore

19:52 - The Joy of Watercolor by Emma Block (Meredith)

21:43 - The Big Book of Watercolor by Mallery Jane

22:27 - Keeping a Creative Sketchbook by Emma Block

28:36 - House of Frank by Kay Synclaire (Kaytee)

28:48 - Ezeekat on Instagram

28:57 - Ezeekat Press

34:14 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

34:18 - Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

34:49 - Burn After Reading by Catherine Ryan Howard (Meredith)

36:40 - Blackwell’s UK

38:46 - The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

38:48 - 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard

38:52 - Rewind by Catherine Ryan Howard

40:21 - The Resurrectionist by A. Raye Dunlap (Kaytee)

40:38 - Fabled Bookshop

40:43 - Aardvark books

46:04 - James by Percival Everett

47:04 - Our Reading Life Temp Checks

58:54 - Meet Us At The Fountain

59:19 - I wish there was a “previously in” page for series books. (Meredith)

1:00:49 - I wish for a reading repair manual. (Kaytee)

1:02:13 - Safe and Sound by Mercury Stardust

1:02:25 - The Pool Care Handbook by Swim University

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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
0:21.8	from having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:27.5	and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads,
0:32.2	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four
0:37.0	and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas.
0:39.8	And I just love being off-the-cuff, lucy-goosey, and imperfect.
0:44.8	I am raising my eyebrows.
0:46.4	I am Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom-of-four living in Arizona.
0:49.8	And the bookish life is richer when it's more than books.
0:52.7	This is episode number 34 of season
0:55.1	seven, and we are so glad you're here. You'll notice I did not say I love being off the cuff
0:59.4	and Lucy Goosey. Yes, I'm just trying to convince myself that I'm good with stuff, just going with
1:06.0	the flow. See, that's a little preview, folks, because tomorrow is April Fool's Day. And if you've been with us for any length of time, you've probably been around for our annual April Fool's Day episode where we do no prep current reads. So that's what we're doing today. Neither of us knows which books the other one has chosen for us to talk about, we're going to see how
1:28.5	it goes. Our deep dive is going to be a reading life temp check. So we're going to see what our
1:33.8	reading lives look like in general now, kind of a broad overview. I'm excited about that slash not
1:38.3	excited at all. But first we'll get started with our bookish moments of the week the way we always do.
1:43.0	Meredith, what is yours?
1:51.7	All right, Katie, going along with the theme of not needing to be perfect and perfectly planned and ticking every single box in our reading life because our reading life should be a place
1:56.4	where we can just do what we want. I had a moment this week that I knew in the moment was my bookish
2:04.2	moment of the week because I made a decision to skip the next Agatha Christie Hercule book on my
2:10.8	list because I just didn't want to read it. I wanted to read in Agatha Christie, but I knew that
2:15.9	the next one, which happens to be the mystery on the blue train, I think is what it's called, I knew that the next one, which happens to be the
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