Season 8, Episode 20: Finding Bookish Twins + Organizing Our Recommendation Sources

Currently Reading

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: overwhelming feelings when reading and finding book twins
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
Deep Dive: how to organize all the book recommendation sources we come across
The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives

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2:09 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week

4:25 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

8:40 - @kaitlynmlilly on instagram

8:41 - @klill01 on TikTok

9:22 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore

10:43 - Our Current Reads

10:49 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Kaytee)

11:15 - The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

15:25 - Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo (Meredith)

16:35 - Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

20:06 - Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves (Kaytee)

20:13 - The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

26:30 - Forensics by Val McDermid (Meredith)

27:46 - Foyles

32:53 - I, Medusa by Ayana Gray (Kaytee)

33:03 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

35:04 - Beast of Prey by Ayana Gray

36:40 - The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper (Meredith)

38:11 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

38:17 - Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper

41:09 - Murdle by G.T. Karber

42:34 - Organizing Recommendation Sources

43:56 - Currently Reading Patreon

47:21 - @kaitlynmlilly on instagram

48:18 - Fabled Bookshop

51:44 - Literally, A Bookshop

52:37 - Goodreads

52:38 - The Storygraph

57:44 - Meet Us At The Fountain

57:49 - I wish we gave ourselves grace to start small in our reading lives. (Kaytee)

59:04 - I wish you all knew that you can sort podcasts from oldest to newest in Apple Podcasts. (Meredith)

1:01:27 - Crime Time FM podcast

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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
0:21.9	from having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book
0:27.3	talk, and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads,
0:32.7	a bookish deep dive, and then we'll visit The Fountain. I'm Meredith Munday Schwartz. I'm a mom and a Mimi and a full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas.
0:41.3	And few things are as much fun as discovering a book twin.
0:45.4	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in Arizona.
0:48.6	And my reading life is rarely a full body experience.
0:52.5	This is episode number 20 of season 8, and we are so glad you're here.
0:56.5	Katie, that sounds fun. Well, full body experience. This is a whole discussion that I'm excited to get
1:01.5	into. But Meredith, we got a comment on Spotify this week that somebody said, they think you're saying
1:07.5	a mom and a meanie. Oh, that's interesting.
1:12.0	And I was like, oh, I like that.
1:14.1	It's kind of cute.
1:15.8	I'm a mom and a meanie.
1:20.1	Well, you know, Jackson, so what I'm saying is a Mimi because that's what my grandsons call me, right?
1:25.0	But Jackson, my 14-year-old,old, when he's not so happy with me,
1:29.9	he'll call me mean, me, me. Oh, no. So it actually works a little bit. That's cute. That's cute.
1:37.8	Yeah, 14-year-olds are adorable. All right, Katie, let's talk about the fact that our deep dive today
1:43.5	is going to be a reader question. It's a really, really good one, and it talk about the fact that our deep dive today is going to be a reader question.
1:45.8	It's a really, really good one.
1:47.0	And it's about tracking and curating our recommendation sources.
1:51.0	And I feel like for any of us who track our reading, this is a piece of the puzzle that is squidgy and hard to manage.
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