Season 8, Episode 38: A Revisit to Episode 8 - Getting Through A Reading Slump
4/27/202650 min
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
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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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 preview
First 90 secondsMeredith Monday Schwartz· Host0:00
[upbeat jazz music] Hey, readers. Welcome back to another episode of the Currently Reading Podcast. We're two bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently, and you should know we're going to have big opinions, so get ready. I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and even in a reading slump, books are still my jam.
Katie Cobb· Host0:36
And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four, aged eight and under, living in New Mexico, and I read because it's my ultimate form of self-care. This is episode number eight, and we are so glad you're here.
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host0:46
All right, Katie, I am so glad to be here. As everyone knows who listened to last week's episode, I was on vacation, and you were so kind to do a fantastic interview with Jessica Turner. That episode was really, really good.
Katie Cobb· Host1:04
I had a great time talking to Jessica, but I definitely missed you. You're my reading buddy, so...
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host1:09
[laughs] I have to say- I'm glad you're back. Thank you. I, I tamped down a little bit of jealousy that you guys were doing such... Having so much fun together, but she's really fantastic, and not only a great author, which of course we know from her new book, Stretched Too Thin, but she's a real reader, and she doesn't shy away from having big opinions about her books, so I loved that episode.