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 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 readerly

deep dive and a little something bookish before we go I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz I'm both a mom and a Mimi and a full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas.

And sometimes it all starts with a teacup.

And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in Arizona.

And I love a great book adaptation.

This is episode number 35 of season eight, and we're so glad you're here.

Katie, you do, you love a great book adaptation so much that you created an entire show around it.

I did. Usually that show is a little bit spicy. The great book adaptation I'm going to talk about today, I have no spicy

opinions about. I just love it. Good. Excellent. Okay. Well, so we have a couple of things. So we will

first tell you that our deep dive for today, we got a great question or questions within a question

from one of our bookish friends. And it's all about

how do Katie and I decide what we're going to spend and how we're going to spend our money

related to books. Lots of interesting things to dive into there. So I love that. But first,

it is the beginning of the month. So that means, for those of you who've been here for a

long time, you know the beginning of every month, we do a short commercial for our Patreon, which is

the way that you guys support us and what we do. And that Patreon is the reason that for the whole

rest of the month here on the big shows, you will not hear a single

commercial. You will literally get more than four hours of bookish conversation. Interruption free,

Katie. It's such a good deal. I mean, honestly. It is. Well, this month, we are going to talk a little

bit about one of the shows that I do behind the paywall, which is all things murderful. Now, we've been doing that for a really, really long time. Of course, you know, this is a show that I do with Elizabeth Barnhill, who you heard on the big show a couple of weeks ago, and we talk about books, mysteries, thrillers, books with puzzles at their center. What's exciting that's happening this month is something that we did last year, and it was so much fun. We're going to do it again. We are going to do a live recording of all things murderful at Fabled Bookshop in Waco. They're having their book lovers weekend. And so I'm going to go, Fabled is my adopted indie bookstore, less than 90 minutes from my house. So I'm going to go there, meet up with Elizabeth, and we are going to do a live recording in front of all the people who are attending Booklovers Weekend. We're going to do a regular episode of all things, Murderful. So we're going to talk about what we've been reading. We're going to talk about books and mysteries that Elizabeth has been pressing into people's hands when they come into the store.

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