Season 8, Episode 32: Exciting Adaptations + How To Audiobook

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: Book adaptations and giving out book recs IRL
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
Deep Dive: How to audiobook
Before We Go: our new segment featuring bookish friend posts and something Kaytee is curious about

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1:21 - Bookish Moments of the Week

1:35 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

1:41 - PBS app

2:31 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

3:07 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

3:46 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

3:48 - Call Her Daddy podcast w/Sarah J. Maas

4:55 - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas

6:55 - Crescent City by Sarah J. Maas

7:09 - @hollyslitmagic on Instagram

9:15 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

9:31 - The Day the World Came To Town by Jim DeFede

9:48 - Search by Michele Huneven

10:16 - Current Reads

11:00 - The Night She Died by Dorothy Simpson (Meredith, ebook only)

16:52 - Courtroom Drama by Neely Tubati Alexander (Kaytee)

17:02 - Literally A Bookshop

21:30 - The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer (Meredith)

22:51 - We Used To Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

26:23 - Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver (Kaytee)

29:04 - Partita by Barbara Kingsolver (pre-order releases Oct 6, 2026)

29:08 - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

29:44 - A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. James (Meredith)

29:59 - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

34:02 - The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James

35:46 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion (vol. 1) by Beth Brower (Kaytee)

43:15 - How To Listen To Audiobooks

55:14 - Before We Go

Kaytee highlights a bookish friend post

56:26 - Greenwood by Michael Christie

56:29 - The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah

Meredith brings something she's curious about

57:20 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

57:35 - Footnotes and Tangents

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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 having
0:22.0	strong opinions so get ready we are light on the chit chat heavy on the book talk and our
0:27.3	conversations will always be spoiler-free today we'll discuss our current reads a readerly deep dive
0:32.4	and a little something bookish before we go i'm meredith monday schwartz i I'm both a mom and a Mimi and a full-time
0:38.9	CEO living in Austin, Texas. And I love big, audacious book adaptations. And I'm Katie Cobb.
0:46.3	A homeschooling Mama 4 living in Arizona. And I love the high of a book wreck immediately taken.
0:52.1	This is episode number 32 of season 8, and we are so glad you're here.
0:56.4	Katie, that is the best. The best. It really is. Like if you're at a bookstore and you
1:03.2	recommend a book to someone and then you see them check out with it and you're like, yes.
1:07.9	Yes, such a win. Y'all, we will let you know right here at the top that our deep dive today is how to
1:14.2	audiobook, how to actually do it and then how to pick the best books for it.
1:18.9	But first, we'll get started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week.
1:23.2	Meredith, what do you have for us?
1:25.4	All right, Katie, I have two things that I want to talk about today.
1:28.9	So first of all, my kind of formal bookish moment of the week, the one that I had prepared for the show,
1:34.0	was that the Count of Monte Cristo adaptation came out with Sam Coughlin.
1:39.1	It came out on streaming.
1:41.1	I have the PBS app, so I mean, I'm hearing that if it's going to be on PBS
1:47.5	Masterpiece here in the States on March 22nd, which is as you guys are listening to this next week.
1:54.6	But if you have the PBS app, which why wouldn't you? Because all the, you know,
1:59.8	Masterpiece Mystery and everything,
2:01.8	then you can watch it now. So I've watched just the first episode. This is my weekend treat for
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