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Season 7, Episode 6: CR Merch + A Conversation with Bill Largent

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

2:00 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:26 - @thewilltoread on Instagram

3:55 - Currently Reading Zazzle store

3:58 - Scary Books Are My Jam mug

5:47 - Our Current Reads

6:03 - The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rasha (Bill)

7:30 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjeh-Brenyah

8:03 - Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

8:05 - Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

9:31 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

11:57 - The Witch of Wild Things by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland (Meredith)

13:26 - The Novel Neighbor

15:30 - The Girls from Corona Del Mar by Rufi Thorpe (Bill, amazon link))

16:55 - Margot’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

18:38 - The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe

19:20 - First Contact by Kim Harrison (Meredith, amazon link)

23:00 - Contact by Carl Sagan

23:59 - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell (Bill)

27:32 - Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

27:36 - The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

28:20 - Instructions for a Heat Wave by Maggie O’Farrell

29:22 - The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden (Meredith)

30:33 - Booker Longlist 2024

30:59 - Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

33:13 - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

33:15 - Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

33:17 - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

34:32 - Deep Dive: Bill’s Reading Life

35:42 - Currently Reading Patreon

36:18 - Ms. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien

36:30 - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’engle

38:48 - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and John Rutherford (translator)

38:48 - The Shining by Stephen King

39:56 - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

41:17 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

41:20 - The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

41:26 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

41:38 - @bookishbetsie on Instagram

47:18 - Dune by Frank Herbert

48:08 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

48:44 - Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

49:11 - Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

49:41 - Meet Us At The Fountain

49:47 - I wish you’d go into a book blind more often. (Bill)

50:18 I wish that more men would read out loud and find bookish community. (Meredith)

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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

0:16.9

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.

0:25.2

We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be

0:29.5

spoiler free.

0:31.3

Today we'll discuss our current reads, do a book of steep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.

0:37.0

I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and Spooky Season is my absolute favorite reading season.

0:46.9

This is episode number six of season seven, and we are so glad you're here.

0:52.6

All right, readers, will you will know from that intro

0:55.8

that something is afoot here as we begin spooky season?

1:00.4

I am here today doing the show with a special guest, a guest that I have wanted to have on for a while.

1:07.6

And that is my friend, my excellent buddy reader, buddy reading partner, Bill Largent, who's agreed to come on and talk

1:15.9

books with me.

1:16.9

Bill, thank you so much for being here.

1:19.3

Thank you for having Meredith.

1:20.7

It's very nice to meet you face to face now in our closets.

1:24.0

I know it's just one of the most 21st century relationships that any two people could

1:30.3

possibly have. That's correct. Yeah. I love it. Yes, we've done so many

1:34.7

Buddy Reed's together but this is our first time actually seeing each other and

1:38.8

talking face to face so that is really really fun. We're gonna do our deep dive later on talking just a little bit about you, Bill, and about what your reading history has been like, about what reading is like for a man on Instagram and in the reading world today so we're going to get into that later

1:55.8

but first let's get to our bookish moment of the week. Do you have a bookish moment this week?

2:00.8

Well I mean I think I'd be lying if I didn't say that it was

2:04.4

preparing for the show right? Yes. Yeah so definitely it's it's preparing for

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