Meredith Monday Schwartz

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.

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I'm Meredith Mundy Schwartz.

I'm both a mom and a Mimi and a full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas.

And as much as I love to read about murder and mayhem, sometimes I need kindness and chamomile.

A readerly pickle?

That sounds not good.

All right, we'll do it.

All right, Katie, the story of 2026, I know I should have said this in the show we did last week, but upon further reflection, the story of 2026, my reading this year is fits and starts.

Okay.

I will have like five books in a row that are four and a half and five star reads back to back to back to back where I'm just in an amazing flow.

I'm like, I will never have a reading slump again.

I have conquered all slumps.

And then I will just kerthomp.

I will hit.

And I just, I have had the hardest time figuring out what I want to read.

And part of it too, is that I last, in the last week, I picked up a bunch of books back to back to back, but they were all really dark.

Horror, murder.

They were just like really, really, really dark.