Episode 153: Our Literary Lives of 2022
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
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šļø 29 December 2022
ā±ļø 92 minutes
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Summary
On The Literary Life podcast today, our hosts look back on their reading lives over the past year. Angelina, Cindy and Thomas each share a commonplace quote, then they each share a little about how they approach reading in a way that fits with the demands of their busy lives. Each of our hosts talks about their literary surprises, their most outstanding reads of the year, disappointing books they read, and their personal favorite podcast books from 2022. Angelina also reiterates why reading rightly is so important to us all!
Don't forget to join us for the 2023 Reading Challenge! Get your books and Bingo cards ready!
Commonplace Quotes:
A good story isn't told to make a point. A good story reflects the World God created. The point makes itself.
Timothy Rollins
"Blessed be Pain and Torment and every torture of the Body ā¦ Blessed be Plague and Pestilence and the Illness of Nationsā¦.
"Blessed be all Loss and the Failure of Friends and the Sacrifice of Loveā¦.
"Blessed be the Destruction of all Possessions, the Ruin of all Property, Fine Cities, and Great Palacesā¦.
"Blessed be the Disappointment of all Ambitionsā¦.
"Blessed be all Failure and the ruin of every Earthly Hopeā¦.
"Blessed be all Sorrows, Torments, Hardships, Endurances that demand Courageā¦.
"Blessed be these thingsāfor of these things cometh the making of a Manā¦."
Hugh Walpole
I will not walk with your progressive apes,
J. R. R. Tolkien, from "Mythopoeia"
erect and sapient. Before them gapes
the dark abyss to which their progress tends ā
if by God's mercy progress ever ends,
and does not ceaselessly revolve the same
unfruitful course with changing of a name.
I will not treat your dusty path and flat,
denoting this and that by this and chat,
your world immutable wherein no part
the little maker has with maker's art.
I bow not yet before the Iron Crown,
nor cast my own small golden sceptre down.
A Selection from "The Secular Masque"
by John Dryden
All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars brought nothing about; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
Book and Link List:
Episode 60: Why Read Pagan Myths
Episode 124: The Abolition of Man (beginning of series)
Fortitude by Hugh Walpole
The Killer and the Slain by Hugh Walpole
The Old Ladies by Hugh Walpole
Cherringham Mystery Series by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards
The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Light Thickens by Ngaio Marsh
Henry the Eighth by Beatrice Saunders
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Captive Flames by Ronald Knox
The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin
The Most Reluctant Convert by David C. Downing
The Truth and Beauty by Andrew Klavan
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
The Rosettis in Wonderland by Dinah Roe
Just Passing Through by Winton Porter
The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories ed. by Martin Edwards
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P. D. James
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Dorothy L. Sayers by Colin Duriez
The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis by Jason Baxter
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
I Live Under a Black Sun by Edith Sitwell
The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist
You Are Not Your Own by Alan Noble
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Twist of the Knife by Anthony Horowitz
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (not recommended)
The Witness of the Stars by E. W. Bullinger (not recommended)
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to. This is not just another book chat podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | Lifelongs, |
| 0:24.8 | joins teachers Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks |
| 0:27.6 | for an ongoing conversation |
| 0:29.5 | about the skill and art of reading well. |
| 0:33.0 | Explore the lost intellectual tradition |
| 0:35.6 | and discover how to fully enter into the great works of literature. |
| 0:40.2 | Learn what books mean while delighting |
| 0:42.4 | in the sheer joy of imagination. |
| 0:45.0 | Each week we will rescue a story from the ivory tower |
| 0:49.0 | and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute. |
| 0:53.6 | The literary life is for everyone, because in the words of Stratford Caldecott, |
| 0:57.9 | to be enchanted by story is to be granted a deeper insight into reality. |
| 1:03.5 | Join us for an ever unfolding discussion |
| 1:06.6 | of how stories will save the world. |
| 1:09.5 | This is the Literary Life Podcast. Hello and welcome to the literary life podcast. Today we are finishing up 2022 with our episode our literary lives of |
| 1:39.8 | 2022 and with me as always is the even more blonde bombshell I'm told |
| 1:46.4 | Cindy Rollins hello Cindy Merry Christmas happy new year |
| 1:50.4 | Merry Christmas and happy new year to you. |
| 1:53.0 | All, both of you. |
| 1:55.0 | Well, thank you, thank you. |
| 1:56.0 | And sitting next to me is the man who I'm told is still my husband. |
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