LoLT: The ‘Order Up’ Word Game and Two New Books

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Melissa & Dave

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5.0 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about three new books: The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler & Katy Derbyshire (translation) and The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami. Then Mel recommends starting the day with the new word game ‘Order Up. Links The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler, Katy Derbyshire (translator) The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins (translator) The Field by Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins (translator) The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar Order Up Adam Wagner: Patreon and Twitter BBC: The Deepest Hole We Have Ever Dug Orion Magazine: Inside the Deepest Artificial Hole on Earth Wordle Connections 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 slice of life look at 20th century Vienna.
0:05.1	An eerie near-future story and a fay fantasy.
0:08.2	Plus our distraction of the week.
0:10.2	I'm Mel.
0:11.0	I'm Dave.
0:11.9	This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:16.8	Prior to this week, I was not familiar with the novels of Austrian author Robert C. Teller.
0:23.0	And now I want to read all of his books.
0:25.5	Oh, all right.
0:26.4	He seems to specialize in short novels, like around 200, 250 pages, something like that,
0:33.9	that capture the tender, painful beauty of life through quiet stories.
0:39.2	His first book, The Tobaconist, is set in Vienna during the Nazi occupation,
0:44.7	and it tells the story of a teenage apprentice at a tobacco shop
0:48.6	and his friendship with Sigmund Freud.
0:51.1	Oh, nice.
0:51.9	Yeah.
0:52.7	He followed that with a novel called The Field, which I wish I'd known about for a cemetery
0:57.9	episode.
0:59.1	It tells the story of a small town through the voices of the souls in its cemetery.
1:04.3	Oh, that's cool.
1:05.1	Yeah.
1:05.8	So he has a new one out.
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