LoLT: The Witches of Scotland Tartan and Two New Books

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Melissa & Dave

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5.0 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about two new books: When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. Then Mel shares the meaningful story of the new Witches of Scotland tartan. Links When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory Daryl Gregory’s website Read an excerpt from When We Were Real Podcast: Mel talks about Spoonbenders in our Chicago episode Mel’s write-up of Spoonbenders Podcast: Mel talks about the P&T Knitwear bookshop The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones The Witches of Scotland website, Instagram, and TikTok The book: How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide to Silencing Women The podcast: Witches of Scotland Tartan Episode Smithsonian magazine on the campaign and tartan Nicola Sturgeon Issues Apology for ‘Historical Injustice’ of Witch Hunts. 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 sci-fi riff on the Canterbury Tales.
0:05.0	A massacre, a journal, and something not quite dead.
0:09.0	Plus, our distraction of the week. I'm Mel.
0:12.0	I'm Dave. This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:16.0	One of my favorite books that I've read for Strong Sense of Place is Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory.
0:23.0	Ever, top of the pile.
0:24.5	I mean, it's definitely in the top ten pile.
0:27.0	Okay.
0:27.7	I recommended it in our Chicago episode.
0:30.5	It's a story I would call mischievous about a very unusual family with superhuman powers.
0:37.4	Yeah. One is a psychic, another is a human lie detector, that kind of thing. about a very unusual family with superhuman powers.
0:37.7	Yeah.
0:38.0	One is a psychic, another is a human lie detector, that kind of thing.
0:41.7	My impression of that book based on your telling is that it's kind of the royal ten and bombs, but they're superheroes.
0:47.8	Exactly that.
0:49.2	There are action-packed, superhero-y sorts of parts to the story, but I feel like that's all a trick
0:56.7	because it's really a heartwarming, very funny family story. Darrell Gregory's imagination is
1:03.3	really fun to play around in, and he writes characters that kind of burrow themselves into your
1:09.1	heart. And all this time, I've kind of thought that this book and its author were unsung heroes.
1:15.0	Oh, you were alone on the spoonbender's train.
1:17.8	Yeah.
1:18.2	Okay.
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