LoLT: Tips for Memorable Travel and Two New Books

Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Melissa & Dave

Books, Arts

5.0 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode, we get excited about two new books: How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson and The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune. Then Dave shares Kevin Kelly’s surprising tips for memorable travel. Links How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel by Kate Jackson Cross Examining Crime website Artist Joanna Lisowiec’s website Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson, Jay Cooper Wolf Hall Companion by Lauren MacKay The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune The House in the Cerulean Sea by Susan Morrison Kevin Kelly’s ‘50 Years of Travel Tips’ Video: The Future Will Be Shaped By Optimists 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Coming up, an unusual self-help guide.
0:04.5	A supernatural road trip with some heart.
0:06.9	Plus our distraction of the week.
0:09.0	I'm Mel.
0:09.7	I'm Dave. This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:16.6	The author Kate Jackson knows a lot about crime novels, particularly classic crime fiction from the golden age of mysteries.
0:25.3	She writes a blog called Cross-examining Crime, where she does gazillions of book reviews.
0:32.1	And she's been published in magazines like Crime and Detective Stories, Mystery scene, and the mystery readers journal.
0:39.5	And she's also written two books of literary puzzles for the British Library's
0:44.3	Crime Classic series.
0:45.7	Huh.
0:46.5	She knows what she's doing.
0:47.6	Yeah.
0:48.4	Her latest book is How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel.
0:52.5	It's a spoof of a self-help guide just in case you find
0:56.5	yourself in the middle of an Agatha Christie-style murder plot. Oh, we've got the manor house weekend
1:01.3	coming up. You said we weren't allowed to talk about the murder. Just to be clear, we are not
1:10.3	planning any murders at the manor house.
1:12.8	Can't guarantee there won't be any, but we're not.
1:15.8	If I said that, I would be in so much trouble.
1:19.4	Moving on.
1:20.6	Yeah.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Melissa & Dave, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Melissa & Dave and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.