Season 8, Episode 34: Books That Grow + Our Reading Traditions
3/30/202655 min
On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing:
- Bookish Moments: books that grow as we read and book festival serendipity
- Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately
- Deep Dive: partaking in bookish traditions
- Before We Go: our new segment featuring bookish friend posts and a sleeper hit brought by Meredith
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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1:31 - Bookish Moments of the Week
2:46 - Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
5:40 - All Systems Red by Martha Wells
5:49 - Sandwich by Catherine Newman
5:50 - Wreck by Catherine Newman
7:02 - Birding with Benefits by Sarah T. Dubb
7:03 - Honey Bee Mine by Sarah T. Dubb
8:02 - Current Reads
8:34 - The Inn at Penglas Cove by Lauren Westwood (Meredith)
13:08 - The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa (Kaytee)
17:37 - The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
18:04 - Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McCallister
18:34 - The Extra by Annie Neugebauer (Meredith)
19:05 - Book Talk, Etc
20:08 - Talking Scared Podcast w/ Annie Neugebauer
23:50 - Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara (Kaytee)
24:01 - CR Season 7: Episode 16
29:10 - @wguidara on Instagram
29:34 - The Murder at World's End by Ross Montgomery (Meredith)
31:35 - An Unlikely Story
33:24 - The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
34:27 - How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
35:36 - The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
36:18 - Waterstones
39:15 - Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
39:24 - The Ten Thousand Doors Of January by Alix E. Harrow
40:24 - Deep Dive: Our Reading Traditions
45:27 - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
45:29 - Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
45:32 - Beauty by Robin McKinley
48:47 - BookPage
49:23 - Before We Go
Kaytee highlights a bookish friend post
49:37 - The Better Mother by Jennifer van der Kleut
Meredith brings a sleeper hit
51:09 - The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
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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 already know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready.
Katie Cobb· Host0:25
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 sometimes books can be confuzzling.
Katie Cobb· Host0:43
I'm Katie Cobb, homeschooling mom of four, living in Arizona, and I think book festival serendipity is even more magical than library serendipity. This is episode number 34 of Season 8, and we're so glad you're here.
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host0:56
Oh, that's a high level. That's a, that's a, a high level of serendipity, book festival.
Katie Cobb· Host1:03
It really is, and it's hard to manage. You can't just, like, walk into a book festival every weekend when you've got an extra hour, right?
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host1:09
[laughs] Exactly. That's what makes it so h- so high level.
Katie Cobb· Host1:13
Confuzzling, Meredith. That's what we're gonna be talking about in a minute, but first I'll let everybody know that our deep dive today is about our reading traditions. This is from a listener question, and I'm excited to get into what kind of traditions we have around our reading lives and reading years. But first,