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Season 8, Episode 10: Squeeze Your Tenders + When Reading Gets Dangerous

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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

  • Bookish Moments: bookish wishes coming true and picture books we love

  • Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we’ve been reading lately

  • Deep Dive: Kaytee gets silly about how reading can be dangerous

  • The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site).

1:34 - Ad For Ourselves

4:33 - Currently Reading Patreon

5:02 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

5:50 - The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

7:08 - Novel Neighbor

8:09 - Don’t Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson

8:17 - Dog Eared Books

9:34 - Our Current Reads

9:54 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Vol.1 by Beth Brower (Meredith)

10:00 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion Vol. 2 by Beth Brower

16:03 - A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh (Kaytee)

16:11 - An Unlikely Story

20:09 - 44 Poems on Being with Each Other by Padraig O Tuama (Meredith)

20:18 - Poetry Unbound podcast

24:24 - In the Shelter by Padraig O Tuama

24:40 - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

25:37 - The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown (Kaytee)

26:27 - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

32:45 - Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand (Meredith)

34:18 - Feral and Hysterical by Sadie Hartmann

37:41 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

38:11 - 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered by Sadie Hartmann

38:40 - Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi (Kaytee)

42:16 - Deep Dive: When Reading Gets Dangerous

46:08 - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

51:05 - Meet Us At The Fountain

51:07 - I wish that more books came in volumes. (Meredith)

51:18 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion Vol.1 by Beth Brower

53:10 - I wish to press an Immense World by Ed Yong. (Kaytee)

53:11 - An Immense World by Ed Yong

53:15 - The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

54:15 - An Immense World by Ed Yong (young reader’s edition)

 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast.

0:14.1

We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently.

0:19.3

And as you know, we won't shy away from

0:22.5

strong opinions. So get ready. Eeks. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,

0:28.8

and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads,

0:33.6

a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz. I'm both a mom

0:38.5

and a Mimi and a full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas. And this week, my biggest bookish

0:44.9

wish came true. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom before living in Arizona, and indie booksellers

0:51.6

really know their stuff. This is episode number 10 of season 8, and we are so glad you're here.

0:57.1

Oh, Katie, they do know their stuff.

0:59.1

They do.

0:59.9

It's fun.

1:01.1

You know what, Meredith?

1:01.9

We have some mischief to manage today.

1:04.5

And also, I'm going to let people know at the top of the show that I got to be in my bonnet because I got a weird injury last week.

1:11.9

So this week, we're going to talk about when reading gets dangerous, the things that could

1:16.9

happen to you while reading, why we should be careful while we're reading.

1:22.7

This is one of those details where Katie just gets a little bit silly and a little bit ridiculous.

1:27.3

And I hope you're all here for it. But first, like I said, a little bit of mischief to manage.

1:32.5

This month, we are doing the one ad that we do for ourselves at the beginning of every month.

1:37.4

It is the first Monday of October. And this month I really wanted to highlight our bookish friends

1:43.5

groups because not only do we have a

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