Season 7, Episode 35: Piles of Books + How We Purge Our Shelves

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: piles of books and bookishness in non bookish places
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: how we purge our shelves
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:47 - Ad For Ourselves

2:08 - Currently Reading Patreon

3:24 - Fabled Bookshop

4:56 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

5:52 - Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis (Finnish version)

5:53 - The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis (Finnish version)

10:41 - Become a CR Patron to access the reading tracker!

12:20 - Our Current Reads

12:25 - There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Kaytee)

16:12 - This House is Haunted by John Boyne (Meredith)

20:56 - The Plan by Kendra Adachi (Kaytee)

21:55 - The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

21:57 - The Lazy Genius Kitchen by Kendra Adachi

25:52 - CR Season 4: Episode 42 w/Kendra Adachi

26:29 - Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson (Meredith)

32:18 - Columbine by Dave Cullen

33:20 - The Trees by Percival Everett (Kaytee)

35:25 - Erasure by Percival Everett

36:42 - James by Percival Everett

38:07 - Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Meredith)

38:27 - Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

39:48 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

45:56 - How We Purge Our Shelves

51:43 - Half Price Books

57:00 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:08 - I am wishing for a good laugh, so send me recs of books that made you laugh. (Kaytee)

58:47 - Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

58:48 - The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon

59:09 - @hollyslitmagic on Instagram

59:29 - I wish to have the discussion about whether book publishing has gone the route of fast fashion. (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
0:21.9	from having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:27.8	and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads,
0:32.4	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas,
0:40.1	and I love evangelizing the bookish life.
0:43.9	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in Arizona,
0:47.1	and the stacks of books around my house are now just decor.
0:50.8	This is episode number 35 of season seven, and we are so glad you're here. I am anti-piles of
0:57.0	anything except books. Books are the only thing that piles of them can be left around my house.
1:03.5	Same. Yes. Clear all the surfaces, put away the dishes, the dishes, the mail, everything, right?
1:09.1	Clothing? Oh, put it away. Books, you're just friends.
1:13.0	You're just friends visiting my lovely home. Please make yourself comfortable. Right. Piles are
1:17.9	cozy. Piles are. Yes, they're decor. I love it. All right. Speaking of piles and books,
1:27.2	of accumulating lots and lots of books, our deep dive today is going to be about how do we purge our shelves? This is a question that we got from a listener. So we're going to chop it up a little bit later on. But first, let's get to our bookish moments of the week. What have you got, Katie?
1:46.1	No, Meredith. First, we have mischief to manage. Oh, dang it. I was trying to go right past the
1:51.0	mischief. It's the first Monday of the month, Meredith. We do have mischief to manage. So, as you know,
1:58.5	the way we keep our show commercial free is that just one time a month,
2:04.6	the first episode of the month, we talk a little bit about our Patreon community. And it's that
2:10.5	community that keeps this show completely ad-free. So buckle up for just a little bit. This
2:17.0	month, we are going to talk
2:18.7	specifically about a piece of content that we offer every month behind the paywall at Patreon.
2:24.0	And that is a lot of people's favorite piece of content. It's all things murderful, Katie. People
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