The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast
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In episode 86, we first spoke with Melissa Joulwan during the COVID pandemic. She is one of the co-hosts of the Strong Sense of Place podcast. Melissa has been one of our favorite guests to date. You will here the original interview in the second half of the show. For something a little new, you will hear us chat this time around to both Mel and her partner David Humphreys. Since we last spoke with Melissa in 2021, they have added a short weekly podcast to their lineup called the Library of Lost Time in which they each recommend a book and a fun distraction. In this remix, they tell us all about this short concept podcast and they each share a book about a library with us! (Carrie is now reading David’s suggestion.)
A Strong Sense of Place is both a podcast and a website where readers can find interesting bookish conversations with our guest this week, Melissa Joulwan, and her husband David, two expatriates living in Prague located in the Czech Republic. In this week’s episode, she tells us about how they select the places they will visit each season, why place in a book has to meet very stringent specifications, and how roller derby helped her make some big life decisions.
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Podcasts mentioned--
Strong Sense of Place (strongsenseofplace.com)
The Library of Lost Time
Books mentioned--
1- Pockets: An Intimated History of How we Keep Things Close by Hannah Coulson
2- The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
3- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
3- Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld
4- Unseen City by Amy Shearn
5- Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume
6- Forever by Judy Blume
7- The First Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders
8- Archie McNally series by Lawrence Sanders
9- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
10- My Antonia by Willa Cather
11- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
12- The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
13- The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
14- She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
15- The Phryne Fisher mysteries by Kerry Greenwood
16- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
17- Less by Andrew Sean Greer
18- The Curse of Jacob Tracy by Holly Messinger
Movies or TV adaptations mentioned in this episode:
1- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (Amazon)
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S9 Ep 184 - Alternative to Amazon with guest Andy Hunter, CEO of Bookshop.org - 8/16/23
S9 Ep183 - Are We There Yet? A Journey - 8/9/23
S.9 Ep. 182 - Creating A COVID Family with guest Katrina Kittle - 8/2/23
Perks REPLAY - Around The World In An Anxious Mind with Guest Jeremy Hance
Perks REPLAY -Thrill Seekers with Guest Chelsea Hoffman
Perks REPLAY - Double Dutch Debut with guest Brittany Thurman
Perks REPLAY - Treks with Toddlers to Teens with guest Kate Wickers
Perks REPLAY - Hyphenated Lives with guest Namrata Patel
S8 Ep181 - Catch the June Reading Bug - 6-21-23
S8 Ep. 180 - Who? What? Wear with guest Vicki Johnson - 6/14/23
S8 Ep. 179 Summer Reading With Guest Sam Miller of Carmichael’s Books 6-7-23
S8 Ep.178 - AAPI Month Contains Multitudes 5-31-23
S8 Ep. 177 - Middle Grade Is Always Ok with Guest Jessica Brody - 5/24/23
S8 Ep. 176 - A Radioactive Read with Guest Ciera Horton McElroy - 6/17/23
S8 Ep. 175 - The Motherlode - 5/10/23
S8 Ep. 174 - Bookie : KY Derby Edition - 5-3-23
S. 8 Ep. 173 - Big Bookish Endeavors with Guest Cindy Burnett - 4/26/23
S.8 Ep. 172- Laugh Out Loud - 4/19/23
S. 8 Ep. 171 Books Behind Bars with Guest Lydia Welker - 4/12/23
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