Episode 116: The "Two for '22" Literary Life Reading Challenge
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
"Two for '22" Literary Life Reading Challenge! This coming year Angelina, Cindy and Thomas are challenging us to read books in 11 categories, but choose 2 books in each category, with a bit of a twist. In today's episode they briefly go over each category and give a few examples of books would fit into those categories. They also take us through the Kids' "Two for '22" Reading Challenge topics. Next time we will be back with a wrap-up episode for our 19 for 2022 Reading Challenge.
The Literary Life Commonplace Books published by Blue Sky Daisies are back with new covers for 2022!
Coming up on The Literary Life podcast in the new year, we have Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dreamcoming up in January and after that, Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis. Then we will be reading The Enchanted Aprilby Elizabeth von Arnim and Charles Dickens' Hard Times later in the year. Our children's classic novel this year will be The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.
Commonplace Quotes:
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful. One must sense him everywhere, but not see him.
Gustave Flaubert
There reigns thro' all the blank verse poems such a perpetual trick of moralizing every thing–which is very well, occasionally–but never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that everything has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.Â
Malcolm Guite
The principle behind modern methods of reading is stated in the form: if there is to be a meaning, it shall be ours.
C. S. Lewis
There is No Frigate Like a Book
by Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human Soul –
Book List:
Faith, Hope and Poetry by Malcolm Guite
The Allegory of the Faerie Queene by Pauline Parker
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Splendid Century by W. H. Lewis
The Fellowship by Philip and Carol Zaleski
Bandersnatch by Diana Pavlac Goyer
Tolkein and The Great War by John Garth
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe and a Great War by Joseph Loconte
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
Elizabeth and Essex by Lytton Strachey
Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins
The Daughter of Time by Josephine They
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
J. K. Rowling/Roberth Galbraith
A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
Essays of G. K. Chesterton by G. K. Chesterton
In a Cardboard Belt! by Joseph Epstein
The Wonder Book for Boys and Girls by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
Kingfisher Book of Russian Tales by James Mayhew
The Cooper Kids Adventure Series by Frank Peretti
Harriet the Spy Series by Louise Fitzhugh
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Connect with Us:
You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/
Find Cindy at morningtimeformoms.com, on Instagram @cindyordoamoris and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/. Check out Cindy's own Patreon page also!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to go. Welcome to the literary life podcast where your hosts Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins, explore a life shaped by books, |
| 0:26.4 | stories, and poetry. Each week we will rescue story from the Ivory Tower and bring it to your |
| 0:32.2 | couch, your kitchen, and your commute. |
| 0:35.0 | The literary life is for everyone because in the words of Stratford Caldecott, |
| 0:39.0 | to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into reality. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello and welcome to the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | Today we are going to do our much anticipated 2022 reading challenge episode. |
| 0:56.0 | And I'm so excited to introduce this year's reading challenge and have us discuss |
| 1:00.8 | through the categories and give suggestions. |
| 1:03.2 | So for that, let me welcome my two co-host and my cohorts. |
| 1:07.6 | Mr. Banks, the mysterious Mr. Banks, who's still going to be just as mysterious in |
| 1:12.2 | 2022. |
| 1:13.4 | And Cindy, the blonde bombshell Rollins, |
| 1:15.7 | who I'm going to guess is still going to be blonde in 2022. |
| 1:19.7 | Lord Brown, unless I'm gray, |
| 1:21.6 | unless the gray takes over, but I'm going to try to stay away from that. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm not going natural, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:29.7 | Cindy, we'd be so disappointed if you stopped being blonde. |
| 1:32.4 | It's your signature. It's your signature look. Yeah, so there you have it. I'm not going to go gray. |
| 1:40.8 | Just don't dye your hair blonde for, I mean, red for any movies. |
| 1:45.0 | That's a reference to last night, if you're not a Patreon, last night we had our |
| 1:49.3 | Patreon event, all fellows even, we were who continued our discussion of prime prejudice adaptations |
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