LoLT: Rambutan Restaurant London and Two New Books

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Melissa & Dave

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5.0 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about two books: The Morningside by Téa Obreht and James by Percival Everett. Then Mel tells us about an unforgettable Sri Lankan meal at Rambutan. 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 The Morningside by Téa Obreht The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht Téa Obreht on How She Found The Morningside Excerpt of The Morningside by Téa Obreht James by Percival Everett Podcast: Sri Lanka: Remarkable, Relentless, Resplendent Rambutan: Recipes from Sri Lanka by Cynthia Shanmugalingam Rambutan website and Instagram Recipes from Rambutan here and here Borough Market website Cubitts eyeglasses 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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0:00.0	At Accardo, you'll save 25% on your first shop and get free delivery, which means if you were to buy a four cheese pizza, you'd basically be getting one of the cheeses for free.
0:10.2	Save and splurge at Accardo, the online supermarket. Geographical and other restrictions. Minimum spend, 60 pounds and charges apply.
0:16.6	New customers only, maximum saving 20 pounds terms at Accardo.com.
0:21.3	Coming up, a new fairy tale novel from one of my favorite authors.
0:26.5	A retelling of an American classic.
0:28.9	Plus our distraction of the week.
0:30.8	I'm Mel.
0:31.5	I'm Dave.
0:32.3	This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:36.9	One of the first books I read specifically for Strong Sense of Place was the Tiger's
0:42.2	wife by Taya Abric.
0:44.0	It's set in an unnamed Balkan country.
0:46.8	It's probably Serbia.
0:48.8	The heroine Natalia is a young doctor, and just as she's beginning to deal with the horrors
0:53.9	of the 1990s civil wars,
0:56.5	her much-adored grandfather dies.
0:59.8	In celebration of his life, and to kind of work her way through her grief, she retells
1:05.4	the stories that her grandfather told her.
1:08.0	It has elements of folklore and fairy tales, and it's really sad and beautiful. It's the kind of
1:15.5	book I just want to clutch to my chest. Yeah, I remember you loving that book. I mean, it has a
1:21.3	magical tiger and a bear man. Yeah. And a deathless man. A deathless man.
1:28.6	Yes.
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