LoLT: Mel’s Shakespeare Project and Two New Books

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In this episode, we’re excited about two books: Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis and Transient and Strange by Nell Greenfieldboyce. Then Mel talks about how she’s delving into Shakespeare. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/StrongSense and get on your way to being your best self. Links Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life by Nell Greenfieldboyce Review: David Tennant in Macbeth Watch David Tennant recite a bit of Macbeth to honor the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio. BBC Radio: Macbeth Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet with David Tennant (2009) The Guardian Review: David Tennant in Hamlet Richard II with David Tennant (2013) The Guardian Review: David Tennant in Richard II Much Ado About Nothing with David Tennant and Catherine Tate (2011) The Guardian Review: Much Ado About Nothing Legends of Literature YouTube: Shakespeare Analysis Chop Bard podcast — ‘the cure for boring Shakespeare’ Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth by A.C. Bradley on Amazon and Project Gutenberg Open Source Shakespeare — all the plays, sonnets, and poems 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 Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.3	Coming up, a modern classic that I somehow missed. A book that's a marriage of science and memoir. Plus our
0:39.0	distraction of the week. I'm Mel. I'm Dave. This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:46.6	This week, an article in the Washington Post recommended two books by Kirsten Bacchus.
0:53.2	And now all I can think about is sitting in my reading nook
0:56.9	under a blanket with endless cups of tea and getting lost in these stories.
1:02.1	What's so magical about Kirsten Bacchus? I'm just going to read you the beginning of the
1:06.8	Washington Post piece. Okay. And then I think you'll feel me. All right. If you were a bookish teenager in the late 1990s,
1:14.2	the odds are good that Lives of the Monster Dogs,
1:17.6	Kirsten Bacchus' first novel,
1:20.0	arrived in your life like a spirit visitation.
1:23.8	I remember it staring out at me
1:25.6	from the fiction shelves at a Seattle bookstore not long after it was published in 1997.
1:31.6	Cover forward among a thicket of variegated spines.
1:35.8	And what a cover it was!
1:38.0	A faded photograph of a dignified Malamute standing on his hind legs.
1:43.1	His body sheathed in an antiquated silk smoking jacket,
1:46.8	cravat at the collar, one paw balanced rakishly on a cane. Staring into his eyes, you couldn't
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