Season 7, Episode 7: Bookish Fitness + How To Fit In Books When We Don't Want To

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: How books will always be there for us and how ratings easily influence reading
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately
Deep Dive: answering the question “How do you handle reading a book you’re not going to enjoy or HAVE to read”. from listener Adrienne.
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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1:40 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

6:50 - The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield

6:52 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

6:54 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

6:56 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

11:34 - Our Current Reads

11:41 - Democracy in Retrograde by Sami Sage and Emily Amick (Kaytee)

12:21 - Betches Media

12:23 - @emilyinyourphone on Instagram

16:13 - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

16:16 - Thriftbooks

17:27 - People Like Them by Samira Sedira (Meredith)

18:52 - Foyles

21:48 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

22:54 - Butter by Asako Yuzuki (Kaytee)

23:03 - The Boulder Bookstore

26:16 - The Secret, Book, and Scone Society by Ellery Adams

27:32 - The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan (Meredith)

34:26 - Colton Gentry’s Third Act by Jeff Zentner (Kaytee)

37:54 - The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (Meredith)

40:34 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

42:18 - The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields

44:55 - Deep Dive: Reading Books We “Have” To Read

52:17 - Meet Us At The Fountain

52:23 - I wish to press What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. (Kaytee)

52:29 - What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

55:09 - I wish to remind you to make a plan for your fall reading NOW before time gets away from you - - AND get your mammogram if you need to! (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 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.
0:25.0	We are light on the chit chat, having on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be
0:28.6	spoiler free.
0:29.9	Today we'll discuss our current reads, a book is deep dive, and then we'll visit the fountain.
0:34.3	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four, and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas.
0:39.4	And I think I might be too easily led in my reading life. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of
0:45.6	four living in Arizona. And I love reading, but right now it doesn't love me back.
0:50.3	This is episode number seven of season seven and we are so glad you're here.
0:54.7	Okay, you're reading always loves you back. It might just be complicated. You know
1:00.3	Facebook you can like put a relationship status. Right it's complicated right right it's just a little quieter
1:06.5	It's just in a yes it's in a complicated face but it always loves you. Yes hopefully
1:29.0	All right so we will let you know that our deep dive today is a question from one of you. We've got a question from a reader. And she asks, how do we work in books that we want to read, but maybe we don't feel like reading in the moment? And I have a lot to say about this topic. Katie, I think you do too.
1:32.0	I absolutely do. All right good. Hopefully we'll have some
1:35.5	helpful strategies there. So let's get started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week.
1:41.9	Katie, what's going on with you this week?
1:44.0	Meredith, I'm a mess.
1:45.3	Okay, so I am in a major reading slump,
1:48.6	and this is of the kind that I've never had before.
1:51.3	I've definitely had moments where I'm like, I don't have time to read as much as I want or I'm not really like feeling grabbed by anything I'm reading. But right now, as you know, I've got a lot going on in my personal life and instead of books being an escape
2:05.2	and a comfort which usually they are I am not just not reading quickly I'm not enjoying
2:10.6	the books I am reading I feel like I need a clean slate,
2:14.9	but some are buddy reads that are slow,
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