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 you should know we won't shy away

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

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

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

and a Mimi and a full-time

CEO living in Austin, Texas. And buying books on the road is one of my favorite things.

And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom-of-hor, living in Arizona. And this week, I have a true

confession about my reading life. This is episode number 12 of season eight, and we are so glad you're here.

Ooh, a confession. That's my favorite. Is it really? All right. Well, we will look forward to

getting to that. But first, I will let you know that our deep dive today is probably not going to

survive. Not going to surprise. Hopefully it survives. It survives. Yes.

It's not going to surprise a lot of people. But we are going to talk about how to buy books

when you travel. Kind of what are the tips and tricks if you want to do that for making that

happen? Yes. I'm excited to get into that. All right, but before we get there, let's go over our

bookish moments of the week. What have you got for us, Katie? This week, my bookish moment is that I

am sometimes a dumb dumb. I think I'm a pretty smart person overall, right? But I have been distracted.

My reading life has been a little bit muddled sometimes over the past year,

year and a half. So my true confession this week, I went to a book event at a local brewery.

The fact that it was at a brewery does not bear on this confession. But it was here in Phoenix.

It was a few months ago. And I bought the second book in a series where I had enjoyed the first one

quite a bit. Sometime later, let's say a month or two later, I pick it up book in a series where I had enjoyed the first one quite a bit.

Sometime later, let's say a month or two later, I pick it up. I'm excited that I read the first one last year. I'm positive. I remember enough. I remember a lot of the books that I read. It's going to be fine. So I'm just going to dive back in, no refresher. It was fine or okay. It was okay. there were some of the elements I remembered, but it must have been like a romance series instead of a fantasy series because these character names were not at all familiar to me. No idea what's going on. It's okay. I can adapt. But I got about 75% of the way through this book. And I realize I still haven't made the connections to the plot and

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