Season 8, Episode 40: Airplane Reading + Books For Every Enneagram

The Currently Reading Podcast

Meredith Schwartz

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

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

Bookish Moments: both discuss plane reading and its advantages
Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
Deep Dive: book recs for each enneagram type
Before We Go: our new segment featuring a bookish friend post and a sleeper hit brought by Meredith

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1:31 - Bookish Moments of the Week

1:55 - The House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

2:03 - @hollyslitmagic on Instagram

2:50 - Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

8:08 - Current Reads

8:28 - The Midnight Show by Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne (Meredith)

10:10 - Diavola by Jennifer Thorne

10:28 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live

13:31 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

16:17 - Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

18:23 - The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Kaytee)

18:35 - The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali

23:09 - Radical Focus by Christina Wodke (Meredith)

24:45 - Traction by Gino Wickman

28:59 - Disney Adults by AJ Wolfe (Kaytee)

36:55 - When The Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy (Meredith)

42:30 - Empire of Shadows by Jacquelyn Benson (Kaytee)

47:09 - Deep Dive: Books for Each Enneagram Type

47:15 - CR Season 3: Episode 37

49:20 - American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld (9)

49:45 - Zorrie by Laird Hunt (9)

51:11 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman (9)

52:23 - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (8)

53:18 - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (8)

54:22 - Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (7)

55:44 - Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (7)

56:54 - We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter (6)

57:04 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live

57:55 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (6)

59:33 - Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (5)

59:52 - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (5)

1:00:54 - Shark Heart by Emily Habeck (4)

1:01:46 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (4)

1:01:54 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (4)

1:02:51 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (3)

1:03:01 - Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez (3)

1:03:49 - Erasure by Percival Everett (3)

1:05:14 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2)

1:06:16 - The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah (2)

1:06:42 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2)

1:08:30 - Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver (1)

1:10:06 - The Home-maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1)

1:13:05 - Before We Go

Kaytee highlights a bookish friend post

Meredith brings a sleeper hit

1:14:25 - Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes

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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
0:21.7	from having strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,
0:27.2	and our conversations will always be spoiler-free. Today we'll discuss our current reads,
0:31.7	a readerly deep dive, and a little something bookish before we go. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz.
0:36.4	I'm both a mom and a Mimi and a full-time
0:39.0	CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I have once again been sucked into Sarah J. Mass's universe.
0:45.3	And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in Arizona, and I think airplane reading is a
0:50.7	superior experience. This is episode number 40 of season eight, and we are so glad
0:55.8	you're here. So now, Katie, you can figure out why I had like four different versions of my
1:00.0	bite-size intro, and I was like, each one was less appropriate than the one before, so that I just
1:05.4	had a straightforward one. Yep, we could have gone really punny there, at least. Right.
1:10.2	All right, y'all, we are so excited to be back on the mic together today. And I will let you know right here at the top that our deep dive today is books for each enneagram type. It's been a while since we did a deep dive about the anagram. So we're going to get some questions. But we're going to talk all about the Enneagram and the nine types.
1:32.1	Before we do that, though, we are going to get started the way we always do with our bookish moments of the week.
1:33.2	Meredith, what is yours?
1:33.9	All right.
1:43.1	Well, this week, actually riffing a little bit probably off of what yours is going to be, I had the pleasure of going on a trip to California this week, and as I did that, I had the equal
1:46.1	pleasure of having three and a half hours to read on a flight uninterrupted.
1:51.3	And I had Crescent City right with me, the House of Earth and Blood.
1:56.9	It's the first in the Crescent City series by Sarah J.Mass.
2:00.1	I'm doing this read-along that is being hosted by Holly's Literary Magic on Instagram.
2:06.2	One of my good bookish friends, she's been telling me forever that we needed to read this series.
2:11.9	And of course, in advance of the new Akitar books coming out in October and in January.
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