Episode 257: "Best of" Series -- Our Literary Lives of 2021
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of The Literary Life podcast, we bring you an episode from our vault in which Angelina, Cindy and Thomas share a wrap up of their 2021 year in reading--their favorite books of the year, their most hated books read, and how they each did with covering the categories of the #LitLife192021 Reading Challenge. They also talk a little about how they will be approaching their reading for next year.
For complete show notes including links to all the books mentioned in this episode, please visit our website at https://theliterary.life/257/.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Literary Life Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | We've grown quite significantly since our debut in 2019, |
| 0:07.0 | and we've had many requests to highlight older episodes that new listeners may have missed, |
| 0:12.0 | as well as revisit listener favorites. |
| 0:15.0 | To honor that request, I present to you this episode of the best of the Literary Life podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | Welcome to the Literary Life podcast, where your hosts, Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins, explore a life shaped by books, stories, and poetry. |
| 0:31.6 | Each week, we will rescue story from the ivory tower and bring it to your couch, your kitchen, and your commute. |
| 0:38.4 | The literary life is for everyone because in the words of Stratford Caldecott, to be enchanted |
| 0:43.5 | by story is to be granted a deeper insight into reality. |
| 0:50.3 | Hello and welcome back to this very final episode of 2021 of the Literary Life podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | Today to discuss our year in reading, the literary lives of us, are my partners in crime, |
| 1:06.0 | including one who is my partner in life. |
| 1:09.0 | That's such a lame opening. With me are the mysterious Mr. Banks. |
| 1:14.3 | Hello. How are you? I'm doing very well and yourself, Mr. Stanford. I'm doing well. You just |
| 1:19.2 | literally taught your last class, so you were feeling happy. I taught mine yesterday. So we're |
| 1:23.8 | feeling really good. And the third member of this triumvirate, Cindy the blonde bombshell |
| 1:30.9 | Rollins. Cindy, how are you? I'm doing very well. You feeling better? You came back? |
| 1:36.3 | Yes. I'm not 100% better. I get these weird coughs every once in a while. So my voice might sound |
| 1:43.9 | a little raspy, but I feel, |
| 1:46.3 | I feel great. Life is good. I'm happy. There's chocolate. There's cookies. There's, |
| 1:51.1 | there's children at home. There's music. All is well. Oh, that that's very good. That's very |
| 1:57.6 | good. And then I guess your, your Advent book is doing really, really well. |
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