Season 7, Episode 48: Our 2025 Group Show!
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are joined by show regulars Roxanna and Mary and they are discussing:
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Unique or Shared!: We give you a statement that may make us either unique or shared, and discuss!
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2:52 - Unique Or Shared
3:22 - I am the worst library user ever. (Roxanna)
5:21 - Wundersmith by Jessica Townsend
12:37 - I love a buzzy book moment. (Mary)
14:23 - Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
14:46 - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
14:47 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
15:27 - The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett
17:49 - I LOVE finding backlist hidden gems over buzzy moments. (Meredith)
18:22 - The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
18:45 - Lexicon by Max Barry
20:15 - Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
20:30 - The Odyssey by Homer
23:27 - I am the only one that purposefully seeks out five chili pepper books. (Kaytee)
25:22 - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Mass
28:44 - I will never read a book without checking Goodreads first. (Roxanna)
37:24 - My book slump reset is a complete genre change. (Mary)
47:09 - I will “experience” a book I know won’t be for me. (Meredith)
47:43 - Dream State by Eric Puchner
48:02 - The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
52:15 - While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
53:15 - Schuler Books
53:36 - I keep my TBR in rainbow order. (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 time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. |
| 0:19.0 | And as you know, we won't shy away |
| 0:21.7 | from those strong opinions. So get ready. We are kind of light on the chit-chat, heavy on the |
| 0:28.0 | book talk, and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today, we have a very special episode for you. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas. And if two hosts is great, four hosts is better. |
| 0:42.8 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four living in Arizona. And I like to pretend I'm a precious and unique flower. |
| 0:49.4 | This is episode number 48 of season seven. And we are so glad you're here. Katie, you are a precious and |
| 0:55.3 | unique flower. Aren't we all? We are all so precious and unique and adorable. And that is especially |
| 1:00.4 | true today because we have all four of us here for a group show. We do one at the end of every episode. |
| 1:06.4 | So let's welcome Mary and Roxanna to currently reading again. Yay. Hi, friends. So nice to see you all. |
| 1:13.6 | I love it. Love it when we're all together. Yes, this is our seventh. Ask Us Anything, End of |
| 1:21.2 | Season, group show dynamic. So this year I did play around a little bit on the internet, |
| 1:27.4 | coming up with some different |
| 1:28.4 | icebreaker type activities. So rather than asking for group show questions or playing a |
| 1:33.9 | different type of game, today we're going to play a game that I'm calling unique or shared. |
| 1:38.9 | So each of us has come up with some things, some statements about ourselves that we think are |
| 1:43.6 | unique and precious |
| 1:44.7 | and so different from everybody else. |
| 1:47.1 | And then we're going to see if that's actually true or not. |
| 1:49.5 | Because that's the thing about humans, right? |
| 1:51.9 | The fun is actually finding out we have something in common. |
| 1:55.0 | So even when you think you're super unique and special, maybe you're not, right? |
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