Season 7, Episode 4: Reading Routines + The Journey Of Currently Reading

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: reading routines and meeting local authors
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: the journey from season one to season seven of Currently Reading
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

5:49 - Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman

6:17 - Changing Hands bookshop

6:18 - Poison Pen bookshop

9:58 - Our Current Reads

10:11 - Five Strangers by E.V. Adamson (Meredith)

11:55 - Novel Memphis

15:56 - Bits and Pieces by Whoopi Goldberg (Kaytee)

16:03 - Libro.fm

18:13 - Finding Me by Viola Davis

19:56 - The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller (Meredith)

28:42 - Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce (Kaytee)

33:46 - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie (Meredith)

38:18 - The Silence of Bones by June Hur (Kaytee)

39:53 - Garcia Street Books

41:13 - The Noh Mask Murder by Akimitsu Takagi

41:58 - Deep Dive: The Journey of Currently Reading

46:40 - Currently Reading Patreon

56:13 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:06 - We wish to grow the listenership of the Big Show with YOUR help! (Meredith AND Kaytee)

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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
0:16.2	time every week talking about the books that we've read recently and as you know we won't
0:21.4	shy away from those strong opinions, so get ready.
0:25.1	We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be
0:28.8	spoiler free.
0:30.1	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:34.4	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas,
0:39.3	and for better or for worse, I benefit from reading routines.
0:43.0	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four, living in Arizona,
0:46.0	and I love big and small reasons to celebrate the bookish life.
0:50.0	This is episode number four of season seven, and we are so glad you're here.
0:54.0	All right Katie we have a lot of things to celebrate.
0:57.0	We have a lot of things to celebrate and one of them is a very long routine that we've both
1:02.1	maintained for a very long time. So today our deep dive is that we are celebrating our
1:07.0	300th episode of the big show which weirdly just game me goosebumps, even though I've been preparing for this for six years at this point.
1:16.2	We're going to talk a little bit about how that has looked for six years and the consistency and the value that it has added to our lives for a deep dive.
1:25.0	But first we'll get started the way we always do
1:27.0	with our bookish moments of the week.
1:29.0	Meredith, what is yours?
1:30.0	All right, Katie, well obviously yes,
1:32.0	celebrating and preparing as we think through our 300th episode, that definitely put a lot of bookish moments of the week in play for me.
1:39.6	On a more prosaic level, what I realized this week was that well I mean I knew not I
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