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 strong opinions.

So get ready.

We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, and our conversations will always be spoiler-free.

Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain.

I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin,

Texas, and my favorite thing is a pulse-pounding read. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four,

living in Arizona, and I'm all about the bookish accessory. This is episode number 36 of season

seven, and we are so glad you're here. I need some pulse pounding, Meredith. I would like that.

Yes, I have been having it this week, so I'm going to talk about that.

All right. I'm sure it's one of those like Fitbit checks on you. Are you okay?

Right, exactly. It is episode 36. That means I'm driving, which means I'm going to tell you that our deep dive today is we're going to talk about a post from the bookish friends group in which somebody wanted to know what are some of the downsides of having a bookish podcast. What's not the coolest thing? So we're going to have a conversation about that. See where it goes. But first we'll get started the way we always do with our bookish

moments of the week. All right, Katie, the reason that this came, I actually was thinking about

doing another bookish moment of the week, but up until literally three minutes before I had to

get up and come in here and start recording all morning. I have been reading the ninth book in the Louise Penny series, How the Light

gets in, because we're getting ready to do our deep dive on that episode for a journey to

Three Pines. But what I had forgotten about this book, and keep in mind, this is my third time

reading this book. What I had forgotten is as we, you know, people talk so much about the Louise Pony

Three Pines series and like, oh, I can't get through the first three books. And we talk a lot about

that early part of the series. But what I think gets kind of lost in the shuffle or is only

spoken about for people who are reading all of the series or deeper into it is how once the series hits its stride

at book like four, five, six, and then on, these books are so pulse pounding. This particular novel

has a two-plot thread, right, like an A plotplot and a B-plot. In this particular book, both of them

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