Season 8, Episode 40: Airplane Reading + Books For Every Enneagram
5/11/20261 hr 19 min
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
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
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 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· Host0:34
I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz. I'm both a mom and a mimi, and a full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I have once again been sucked into Sarah J. Maas' universe.
Katie Cobb· Host0:45
And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mom of four living in Arizona, and I think airplane reading is a superior experience. This is episode number 40 of season eight, and we are so glad you're here.
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host0:56
So now, Katie, you can figure out why I had, like, four different versions of my bite-size intro [laughs] and I was like, each one was less appropriate than the one before- Yep ... so then I just had a straightforward one.
Katie Cobb· Host1:06
Yep. We could've gone really punny there at least.
Meredith Monday Schwartz· Host1:09
Mm. Right.
Katie Cobb· Host1:10
[laughs] 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 Enneagram- Mm-hmm ... so we're gonna get some questions, but we're gonna talk all about the Enneagram and the nine types. Before we do that, though, we are gonna get started the way