Season 7, Episode 38: Crying Over Books + A Book That Surprised Us

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: silencing notifications and crying over books
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: a book that surprised us and how we can replicate that experience
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

6:01 - Amari and the Despicable Wonders by B. B. Alston

8:21 - Our Current Reads

8:49 - Death on Ocean Boulevard by Caitlin Rother (Meredith)

13:12 - Death at the Mansion: Rebecca Zahau on Apple TV

14:38 - Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson (Kaytee)

14:43 - Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

18:04 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

18:05 - A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett

18:32 - From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks (Meredith)

24:14 - She Came to Slay by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Kaytee)

24:32 - Libro.fm

27:39 - Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes (Meredith)

34:38 - A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales (Kaytee)

34:53 - CR Season 6: Episode 7

35:00 - Schuler Books

35:07 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

38:09 - A Terribly Nasty Business by Julia Seales (pre-order, releases June 24, 2025)

39:08 - A Book That Surprised Us

39:39 - In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden (Meredith’s book)

41:55 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

43:49 - Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin (Kaytee’s book)

45:55 - A Most Agreeable Murder by Julia Seales

51:12 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:33 - I wish for you to let us know what you want us to deep dive about. Send us an email to [email protected] (Meredith)

54:00 - I wish to circle back to my wish about reading repair manuals and let you know about some books that fulfill that wish. (Kaytee)

54:21 - The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud

55:49 - Bibliotherapy by Molly Masters

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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
0:21.6	from having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:27.2	and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads,
0:31.6	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four
0:36.5	and full-time CEO living in Austin,
0:38.7	Texas, and adding a level of focus has upped my reading game. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling
0:45.2	mom of four living in Arizona, and I love when a series just keeps getting better. This is episode
0:50.5	number 38 of season seven, and we are so glad you're here.
0:54.6	Oh, Meredith, I'm excited.
0:57.3	Yes, yes, and hopefully we have more series updates in our future from you.
1:03.0	Well, I mean, we'll see, but for now I'm excited about a series.
1:07.2	All right, good, good.
1:08.8	Who knows what future Katie will want?
1:10.7	All right, y'all, I am ready myself to let you know that today for our deep dive, we're
1:15.9	going to chat about a book that surprised each of us and then figure out if there's anything
1:20.3	we can pull from that experience to help replicate it.
1:23.6	Very excited to get into that, but first we'll get started the way we always do with our
1:27.3	bookish moments of the week. Meredith, tell us. What have you got?
1:31.1	All right. My bookish moment of the week, Katie, really serves as an update to the conversation that you and I had last week.
1:38.2	I told you when we were actually while we were recording, I was like, if I'm looking down, it's because I'm silencing my
1:44.8	notifications. One of the things you talked about was, I mean, it's so obvious, but I just realized
1:52.6	as we were talking how many notifications I had myself set to get. Yes. And so I set about while we
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