The Perks Of Being A Book Lover Podcast
Education:Language Learning
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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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Season 5 Ep. 106 The Age Old Story of a Sisterhood with guest Grace Sammon
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Season 5 Ep. 104 Stories of the Crown with guest St. Clair Detrick-Jules 9-8-21
Season 5 Ep. 103 Travel Expectations with Amber Share and Suzanne Roberts 9-1-21
Season 5 Ep. 102 The Building Books of Empathy with guest Melissa Hart
Season 5 Ep. 101 Rainbow Readers Unite with guest Sanjay Saverimuttu
Season 5 Ep. 100 Globe Trotter with guest Heather Lennon of Arctis Books 8-11-21
Season 5 Ep. 99 Sinister Small Town Teen Suspense with guest Brooke Lauren Davis 8-4-21
Season 5 Ep. 98 Ask the Agent with guest Alice Speilburg
Season 5 Ep. 97 A Bookstore for Kids Galore with guest Caroline Stine
Season 5 Ep. 96 Mastering the Meet Cute with guest Melonie Johnson 7-14-21
Season 5 Ep. 95 The Suspense is Killing Us with guest David Bell 7-7-21
Perks RePlay You Can't Read This with guest Natalie McCall
Perks RePlay A Voice From Cherokee with guest Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle 11-8-20
Season 4 Ep. 94 To Read A "Mockingbird" with guest Ben Self 6-16-21
Season 4 Ep. 93 Speedier Reader with guest Jacqui Isser 6-7-2021
Season 4 Ep.92 Riding and Writing with the Butterflies with guest Sara Dyckman 6-2-21
Season 4 Ep. 91 Summertime and the Reading is Easy with Bookseller Sam Miller 5-26-21
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