Season 8, Episode 19: Reading Short Books + Deep Dive w/ Megan P. Evans

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: finally reading a big book and nerdy bookends
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
Deep Dive: how the podcast has changed Megan P. Evan's life in all ways.
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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2:01 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

2:26 - From the Front Porch podcast

2:28 - Bookshelf Thomasville

2:33 - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and John Rutherford (translator)

2:39 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

3:39 - The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

4:33 - Wicked Lego Bookends

6:36 - Our Current Reads

7:04 - The Book of I by David Greig (Megan)

10:07 - Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivy (Kaytee)

10:15 - Booktenders

10:31 - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivy

15:46 - The Deep End by Julie Mulhern (Megan)

21:11 - House Love by Patric Richardson (Kaytee)

21:43 - Laundry Love by Patric Richardson

23:25 - Safe and Sound by Mercury Stardust

23:26 - Right at Home by Bobby Berk

25:19 - Above the Fire by Michael O'Donnell (Megan)

27:05 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

27:44 - Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

27:51 - Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

27:52 - These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

29:20 - Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell (Kaytee)

35:03 - Megan's Reading Life

49:54 - Meet Us At The Fountain

50:12 - I wish you would consider reading more short books. (Megan)

51:05 - I wish for a book parade like the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. (Kaytee)

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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 already know, we don't shy away
0:21.3	from having strong opinions. So be ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:26.4	and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today, we'll discuss our current reads,
0:31.6	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama
0:36.4	four living in Arizona, and my books needed a little something to change them for the fountain. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in Arizona, and my books
0:38.8	needed a little something to change them for the better. And I'm Megan Poudafong Evans, a mom,
0:44.9	an editor living in Nashville, Tennessee, and reading big books is really hard for me right now.
0:50.6	This is episode 19 of season 8, and we are so glad you're here.
0:54.5	Y'all, I am so excited today because as you can hear, we do have a different voice on
1:01.4	microphone today. I am joined by our editor, our producer, our magic maker behind the
1:08.1	scenes, Megan, to record this episode today. We asked her to step in.
1:12.8	It's Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S. So everybody was a bit busy. I'm thrilled for you
1:18.2	get to hear directly from Megan today. And we're going to learn a little bit about her reading
1:22.6	life. Megan, thank you for hanging out with me. Of course. I may have had to change my pants before this because I was so excited.
1:30.3	But I'm here.
1:31.8	Were you nervous? Were you excited?
1:33.3	I was very excited. Very excited.
1:35.3	I'm not that nervous, but I'm excited. So we'll see. We'll see. I got to slow my talking
1:40.8	and take out all my things. So I don't have to edit as much later. We'll see.
1:46.3	Right. As editor, you know what happens behind the scenes if somebody has a lot of verbal
1:51.7	tics or a lot of things going on. So I'm excited for you to get to be on the other side of things.
1:57.3	We will see. As you know, we are going to get started the way we always do with our bookish
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