Season 7, Episode 47: Reading Life Temp Check + Pressing Books Into Each Other's Hands

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Meredith Schwartz

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4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: readerly badges and DNFing books
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: we check in on our reading lives and press book into the other’s hands
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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2:19 - Our Bookish Moments Of The Week

8:02 - Our Current Reads

8:30 - A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera (Kaytee)

8:46 - A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera

8:49 - CR Season 5: Episode 1

8:53 - Cafe Con Libros

8:55 - An Island Princess Starts A Scandal by Adriana Herrera

8:57 - CR Season 6: Episode 6

12:29 - With A Vengeance by Riley Sager

14:09 - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

14:10 - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

14:14 - The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

14:20 - Survive the Night by Riley Sager

14:52 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

14:54 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

15:11 - Nine Lives by Peter Swanson

18:29 - Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodges (Kaytee)

22:29 - The Midsummer Bride by Kati Wilde (Meredith)

25:43 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

28:02 - Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (Kaytee)

31:19 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

32:05 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

33:42 - The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Meredith)

37:17 - This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (Meredith mistakenly titled this book. This is the correct one!)

39:21 - Reading Life Temp Check + Pressing Books Into Each Other’s Hands

40:19 - Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodges

51:38 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

52:01 - All The Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

54:49 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

56:13 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

57:32 - Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

57:54 - Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

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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 from having
0:21.4	strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, and our
0:26.5	conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive,
0:31.7	and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas,
0:38.0	and I'm kind of scared at how good I'm getting at DNFing books.
0:42.3	Ooh, I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in Arizona, and I have a new Reader Scout badge.
0:48.6	This is episode number 47 of Season 7, and we are so glad you're here.
0:52.9	Oh, yeah, Katie, it is, it is, it is, it is rough going over here
0:56.7	with the DNFing. I actually am kind of proud of how many books I've DNF lately. So I'm calling it a
1:04.2	win, even though I hear what you're saying. Yes, yes, no, it definitely can and should be seen that way.
1:10.6	All right, we will let you know that a couple things. We, our deep dive today is going to be a reading temp check, right? Every few months we're trying to incorporate how are we feeling about our reading, what's working, What's not? And then, because today is the last
1:29.1	regular episode of season seven, there will be multiple special episodes still coming up.
1:36.0	And Katie will let you know about that. But we are going to press a book into each other's
1:41.7	hands that we have agreed. We did this two years ago, right, Katie?
1:45.7	Yeah. Last year, readers picked for us. This year, we're going to go back to you pressing a book into my
1:51.2	hands. I'm pressing a book into your hands that we are agreeing sight unseen that we will read
1:57.3	over our summer break. And then when we come back for season eight, we will come back
2:01.7	and talk about our thoughts on it. So we're going to do that later today. Yes, I'm excited,
2:06.1	although I had a bit of a internal crisis about it. So it's one of the more difficult things that
2:11.4	we do, I think. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Let's then get started like we always do with our bookish moment of the week. Katie,
2:21.4	what is yours? Okay, Meredith. I did get a new Reader Scout badge this week, which is what I'm calling
2:27.2	it because I'm trying to frame it in a positive light. I, as a 41 year old woman, for the first time,
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