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Currently Reading

Meredith Monday Schwartz and Kaytee Cobb•currentlyreadingpodcast.com

Currently Reading is a podcast dedicated to the love of books and reading. Two bookish friends discuss what’s on their nightstands, in their earbuds, and on their Kindles right now, in addition to books they’ve loved forever, and a variety of other readerly topics. Looking for your next great book? You'll find tons of book recommendations every week.

Episodes

Episode 5: Big Book Opinions: Novels to Tear Your Heart Out or Scare the Pee Pee Out of You

Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds for a show that required us to put up our dukes to fight with technology in more ways than one. Give us grace on the audio foibles this week, and blame Skype, m’kay? You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: happy podcast vibes and bookish t-shirts. We dive in to discussing 3 books each. Two we really enjoyed and one… not so much. Watch out for those strong opinions in this segment this week! Then we spend a little time talking about...

Sep 24, 2018•38 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 4 - Reality Bites: Non-Fiction and Book Tracking

Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds for a show that ended up having heavier subject matter than we'd expected. You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us (and a surprise vocal appearance by Meredith's Boston Terrier, Cooper - oops!) and we'll go over a few of the books we’ve finished reading lately. Then we’ll chat about what’s next up on the TBR pile. This episode includes an accidental foray into non-fiction books, because we have a lot of words about them this week! N...

Sep 17, 2018•49 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 1 - A {Slightly Awkward} Beginning

Welcome to the Currently Reading podcast! In our inaugural episode, we try out our format for the first time. You get to hear us get over our microphone nerves and get comfortable chatting with each other. We share a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us – something readerly in our lives that we want to highlight, a few of the books we’ve finished reading lately, and what’s up next on the TBR pile. We finish up with A Book (yep, capitalized) that we’d like to put into every reader’s hands...

Sep 10, 2018•40 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 3 - Wherein We Go Wild For Middle Grade Fiction

Meredith and Kaytee are back in your earbuds for more bookish chat. You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us – something readerly in our lives that we want to highlight, and a few of the books we’ve finished reading lately. Then we’ll chat about what’s next up on the TBR pile. This episode we truly begin to show our love for middle-grade fiction. We hadn’t planned it this way, but we recommend a plethora of fantastic titles for your kids - or for the lover of kit lit in you. Ne...

Sep 10, 2018•42 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 2 - Book Metaphors and Page-Turning Novels

Kaytee and Meredith are back in your earbuds for more bookish chat. You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us – something readerly in our lives that we want to highlight, and a few of the books we’ve finished reading lately. Meredith's famous (infamous?) book metaphors make their first podcast appearance in this episode. Broccoli, anyone? Next, we do a mini-deep-dive into some of the best audiobooks to get you started if you're new to the medium, and then we move onto what’s up ...

Sep 10, 2018•43 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 00

Meredith and Kaytee describe their vision for the perfect book podcast. Coming soon: Currently Reading - a podcast for book lovers.

Sep 05, 2018•2 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast