LoLT: Putting Names to Nature and Two New Books

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Melissa & Dave

Books, Arts

5.0 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about two new books: Perspective(s): A Novel by Laurent Binet and The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer. Then Dave shares the app that’s decoding nature’s secrets in his favorite park. Links Perspective(s): A Novel by Laurent Binet The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer HHhH by Laurent Binet — hear Mel talk about it on our Prague podcast episode The Black House by Peter May — hear Mel talk about it on our Scotland episode Seek by iNaturalist: download the app for Apple or Google, watch a demo video, get the user’s guide Transcript of this episode. The Library of Lost Time is a Strong Sense of Place Production! https://strongsenseofplace.com Join our FREE Substack to get our (awesome) newsletter and join in chats with other people who love books and travel. Do you enjoy our show? Do you want to make friends with other (lovely) listeners? 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 Substack Patreon Parts of the Strong Sense of Place podcast are produced in udio! Some effects are provided by soundly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, a romp through Renaissance Florence.
0:05.0	A crime you probably didn't know existed.
0:08.0	And our distraction of the week.
0:10.0	I'm Mel.
0:11.0	I'm Dave. This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:14.0	The French author, Laurent Bénée, specializes in stories that take literary creative license with historical fiction.
0:24.5	I should also mention that Sam Taylor, his translator, does a beautiful job adapting the stories from French into English.
0:32.9	So Lauren Benet wrote H-H-H- did. Which is one of your favorite books about Prague.
0:38.3	Yes.
0:39.3	And he works a little bit like Eric Larson, where he takes the truth and he makes it a compelling story.
0:45.8	But I feel like Benae works in fiction and Larson works in nonfiction.
0:51.4	Yes.
0:51.9	But they're kind of friends that way.
0:53.9	Well, and Laurenne Bonaugh kind of takes a realfiction. Yes. But they're kind of friends that way. Well, and Laurenne-Bene kind of
0:55.8	takes a real story and like jumps it into a completely different realm. For example, his last book,
1:03.6	Civilizations, is an alternate world history in which the Incas conquer Europe instead of vice versa.
1:10.6	I mean, yeah, that's going far into the fiction world.
1:13.2	Yeah.
1:14.0	And as you already mentioned, H-H-H-H-H tells the story of the assassination of Reinhardt-H
1:19.7	in Prague in 1942.
1:21.8	And that one really plays with literary form.
1:24.5	The chapters are really short.
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