Season 8, Episode 18: Re-Reading + How We've Changed For Good
Currently Reading
Meredith Schwartz
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
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Bookish Moments: book advent and making wood bookends
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Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
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Deep Dive: how Meredith and Kaytee have both changed for good due to the podcast and each other
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The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives
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1:12 - Ad For Ourselves
1:41 - Currently Reading Patreon
8:13 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week
8:27 - 25 Days by Per Jacobson
14:10 - Our Current Reads
14:33 - North Sun by Ethan Rutherford (Meredith)
16:14 - The Terror by Dan Simmons
21:29 - Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McCallister (Kaytee)
26:39 - And the World Spins Anyway by Georgie Jones (Meredith)
26:47 - georgie_jonez on instagram
32:56 - Awake by Jen Hatmaker (Kaytee)
33:23 - 7 by Jen Hatmaker
37:49 - Lady Tremaine by Rebecca Hochhauser (Meredith)
39:39 - Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
42:23 - Fabled Bookshop
42:37 - A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat (Kaytee)
42:52 - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
45:58 - CR Season 4: Episode 45
46:46 - How We've Been Changed For Good
59:09 - Meet Us At The Fountain
59:38 - I wish that you would follow @mondaynextpodcast on instagram for a limited series for business minded individuals!
59:40 - @mondaynextpodcast on Instagram
1:01:17 - I wish for us to finish the year strong in our reading lives. (Kaytee)
1:02:39 - The Never King by Nikki St. Crow
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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 |
| 0:22.2 | having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk, |
| 0:28.1 | and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today, we'll discuss our current reads, |
| 0:32.6 | 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. |
| 0:41.3 | And readers have the best ideas. |
| 0:44.4 | And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in Arizona. |
| 0:47.9 | And I'm a girl with many hobbies, all of which are somewhat bookish. |
| 0:51.5 | This is episode number 18 of season 8, and we are so glad you're here. |
| 0:57.1 | Oh, Katie, we are so, so glad to be here. There are so many things going on as we get ready for the end of the year and then the beginning of the new year. |
| 1:06.3 | So we have a lot of things we want to talk about today. |
| 1:09.2 | Yes, and that gets us perfectly into the fact that |
| 1:12.1 | we have some mischief to manage today. It is absolutely shocking to me that we are right here |
| 1:18.5 | on the 1st of December already of 2025. We're almost done with what? What? How? I know. I don't |
| 1:24.6 | understand it. But since it's the first Monday of the month, that means we do our one and only ad for ourselves in this episode. |
| 1:32.8 | The entire rest of the time when you're listening to currently reading, we are commercial free. It's good for us. It's good for you. |
| 1:38.4 | This time, we're going to tell you a little bit about our Patreon and how you can support the show. And this month, we are very |
| 1:45.8 | excited to talk about the 2026 reading tracker. It's coming up so soon, Meredith. I'm so excited. |
| 1:52.5 | We are opening the doors on our favorite time of year, Katie. Indeed, we are. And just like every other year, I get so excited at this |
| 2:04.6 | time of year because I use my own spreadsheet brain powers, but I also ask the bookish friends, |
| 2:12.1 | what worked for them? What's their big dream wish list for this tracker? How can it make the most sense for their reading lives? |
| 2:19.6 | And I have already gotten 100 comments on the request form asking me or telling me things that they would love to see. |
| 2:28.5 | I can already tell you, we have some very exciting things planned for 2026, including comparing your rating with whichever |
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