LoLT: (Fun) Christmas To-Do List and Two New Books

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Melissa & Dave

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about two great books: One Woman Show by Christine Coulson and To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. Then Dave recites a delightful poem from British poet Brian Bilston. Links One Woman Show by Christine Coulson Video: Christine Coulson at Hudson River Museum Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson Podcast: Museums: A Gathering of Muses, A Clutch of Curators To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose Brian Bilston’s website and Twitter And So This is Christmas: 51 Seasonally Adjusted Poems by Brian Bilston You Took the Last Bus Home by Brian Bilston Days Like These: An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems by Brian Bilston Meet the Author: Brian Bilston (Suffolk Libraries) Brian Bilston: the Poet Laureate of Twitter (The Irish Times) Transcript of this episode. The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Do you enjoy our show? Want access to fun bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon. Every little bit helps us keep the show going and makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside - https://www.patreon.com/strongsenseofplace As always, you can find us at: Our site Instagram Twitter Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, a tricky take on a coming of age story.
0:04.7	A book about a Native American girl and her dragon.
0:08.1	Plus our distraction of the week.
0:10.1	I'm Mel.
0:10.8	I'm Dave.
0:11.6	This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:16.4	In our Strong Sense of Place episode about museums,
0:20.4	I recommended a book I loved called Metropolitan Stories by Christine Colson.
0:25.4	She worked at the Met in New York for more than 25 years, so she knows that place inside out.
0:31.9	And her first novel unfolds through a series of interconnected vignettes that bring the objects in the museum to life,
0:40.0	sometimes literally.
0:42.0	That book has been near the top of my TVR since you talked about it back then.
0:46.2	You really should treat yourself to reading this book.
0:48.5	It's one of my favorite books that I've read for Strong Sense of Place.
0:52.0	Yo, the book of Floods coming up.
0:53.7	That would be an excellent time to read this book.
0:56.1	There you go.
0:57.4	In her new novel, One Woman Show, she's experimenting again with the novel form.
1:04.0	You know the little placards next to the works of art in a museum?
1:07.2	Yeah, sure.
1:08.5	I know them because every time we go to a museum, we read every single one of
1:12.1	them. Every word. Yeah. Usually they have the title of the piece and the date, along with a short
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