Season 8, Episode 32: Exciting Adaptations + How To Audiobook
3/16/20261 hr 3 min
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
Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site).
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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 preview
First 90 secondsMeredith Monday Schwartz· Host0:00
[upbeat jazz music] 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.
Katie Cobb· Host0:24
We are light on the chitchat, 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.
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host0:35
I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz. I'm both a mom and a mimi, and a full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I love big, audacious book adaptations.
Katie Cobb· Host0:44
And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in Arizona, and I love the high of a book rec immediately taken. This is episode number 32 of season eight, and we are so glad you're here.
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host0:56
Katie, that is the best, the best.
Katie Cobb· Host1:00
It's like reader drugs.
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host1:00
[laughs] It really is. Like, if you're at a bookstore and you, like, recommend a book to someone, and then you see them check out with it, and you're like, "Yes."
Katie Cobb· Host1:07
[laughs] Yeah, such a win. Y'all, we will let you know right here at the top that our deep dive today is how to audiobook, how to actually do it, and then how to pick the best books for it. But first, we'll get started the way we always do, with our bookish moments of the week. Meredith, what do you have for us?
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host1:25
All right, Katie, I have two things that I wanna talk about today. So first