Season 8, Episode 38: A Revisit to Episode 8 - Getting Through A Reading Slump

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Currently Reading, we are revisiting an episode from season 1! On episode 8, Meredith and Kaytee discussed reading slumps and how to get through them. Kaytee is bopping around the world, so we hope you enjoy this blast to the past. (head on over to the original show notes HERE to see the photos Meredith references in her bookish moment)

Bookish Moments: lovely neighbors and bucket list trips with friends
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
Deep Dive: reading slumps, how we deal with them, and some book recs to help get you through them
Books We Want To Press Into Your Hands: each host brings a book they want everyone to read

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5:12 - Moonlight in Vermont AirBnB in Stowe, VT

6:54 - Bear Pond Books in Stowe, Vermont

7:45 - The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (Kaytee)

7:58 - Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin

10:22 - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Meredith)

10:30 - Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson

13:00 - Siblings without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (Kaytee)

13:25 - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

13:30 - How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

15:51 - Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman

17:24 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips (Meredith)

20:12 - A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult (Kaytee)

21:40 - Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

25:36 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman (Meredith)

27:13 - The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

28:00 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

28:42 - The Vanderbeeker's of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser

33:28 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

34:11 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

39:40 - Calypso by David Sedaris

40:39 - Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

41:13 - Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris

43:47 -Max: Best Friend. Hero. Marine. by Jennifer Li Shotz

43:53 - Hero by Jennifer Li Shotz

46:15 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey readers, welcome back to another episode of the currently reading podcast. We're two bookish best
0:17.2	friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently.
0:21.2	And you should know we're going to have big opinions, so get ready.
0:25.3	I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco
0:30.7	Bay Area. And even in a reading slump, books are still my jam.
0:35.4	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four aged eight and under
0:39.6	living in New Mexico, and I read because it's my ultimate form of self-care. This is episode
0:44.9	number eight, and we are so glad you're here. All right, Katie, I am so glad to be here. As everyone
0:52.5	knows who listened to last week's episode, I was on vacation and you were so glad to be here. As everyone knows who listened to last week's episode, I was on vacation
0:56.7	and you were so kind to do a fantastic interview with Jessica Turner. That episode was really,
1:03.5	really good. I had a great time talking to Jessica, but I definitely missed you. You're my
1:08.4	reading buddy, so I have to say. I'm glad you're back. Thank you.
1:12.3	I tamped down a little bit of jealousy that you guys were doing such, having so much fun together.
1:18.1	But she's really fantastic and not only a great author, which of course we know from her new book,
1:22.5	Stretch Too Thin, but she's a real reader and she doesn't shy away from having big opinions about her books. So I loved
1:29.2	that episode. She totally does. It was so fun to chat with her. All right. So let's start off the
1:35.5	way that we love to do and let's talk a little bit about our bookish moments of the week. What have you
1:41.2	got this week? All right. So this week, I am going to talk about my
1:45.6	neighbor, Marilyn. I actually sent you a couple messages about her earlier as we were first getting
1:52.1	our podcast off the ground. She lives down the street from me. She is old enough to be my, somewhere
1:59.9	between my mom and grandma's age. She has grandkids that are as
2:02.9	old as my kids or older. And she is just the sweetest thing. She does not do any social media. So she
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