LoLT: Tips for Reading Long Novels and Two Great Books

Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Melissa & Dave

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this episode, we get excited about two new books: The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War by Adrian Tinniswood and Playworld: A Novel by Adam Ross. Then Mel shares her reading and loving doorstopper novels of 500+ pages. Links The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War by Adrian Tinniswood The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House, 1918-1939 by Adrian Tinniswood Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II by Adrian Tinniswood Playworld: A Novel by Adam Ross Mr. Peanut by Adam Ross Adrian Tinniswood’s website Podcast: History Extra — The Golden Age of the Country House The Wheel of Fortune by Susan Howatch Mel’s Favorite Doorstopper Novels Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson REAMDE by Neal Stephenson The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili (translated by Ruth Martin & Charlotte Collins) Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth - reviewed on our Hollywood podcast Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel - reviewed on our London podcast The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - reviewed on our Library podcast The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - reviewed on our Cemetery podcast The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - reviewed on our Library podcast The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Fairy Tale by Stephen King 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 gossipy history of English country houses.
0:05.5	A coming of age in 1980s, New York.
0:08.2	Plus our distraction of the week.
0:10.2	I'm Mel.
0:10.8	I'm Dave.
0:11.7	This is the Library of Lost Time.
0:16.7	So before we get started, we should talk about the weekend in Wales.
0:21.5	We should.
0:22.3	If you missed last week's episode, we announced that we are taking over a manor house in Wales in October,
0:30.5	and we invited everybody to come along with us.
0:33.4	Because we would really love it if everybody could come.
0:36.1	That would be fantastic. Unfortunately, there are a limited number of beds, which is going to make that pretty awkward if an infinite number of people show up. How cool would it be, though, if it was a magical country house where there were just enough beds for everybody, but also still felt cozy? That would be great. That would be so cool. Yeah. Sadly, that's not the world we live in. No, our house has 10 bedrooms.
0:55.3	It has 10 bedrooms.
0:57.8	So we announced that we were going to put tickets on sale for our patrons this week,
1:02.3	and then we were going to open it up to everybody today.
1:05.6	Yeah.
1:06.2	Friday.
1:06.9	Mm-hmm.
1:07.6	And then we opened it up to our patrons.
1:10.5	On Tuesday. On Tuesday. And we sold out in up to our patrons. On Tuesday.
1:11.2	On Tuesday.
1:12.0	And we sold out in eight minutes.
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