Our Top 10 Books from the First Five Seasons of Strong Sense of Place

Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Melissa & Dave

Books, Arts

5.0 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Since we launched Strong Sense of Place in 2020, we’ve produced five seasons — 56 episodes — of the show. We’ve also shared our affection for books through 101 episodes of The Library of Lost Time podcast — and we’ve introduced you to 500 books we love. Thanks to you, we’ve had over one million downloads (!) and, the best part of all, we feel like we’re part of a massive book club filled with the best people. Thank you for that! In this mini-episode, we each looked back through our book recommendations to find our top 10 titles from the first five seasons of the show. Maybe you’ll find your new favorites, too! Find all the book titles and the corresponding podcast episodes on our blog. 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 Our FREE Substack Instagram Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello. If you're listening to this on the day we posted it, we are one week away from season
0:15.6	six of Strong Sense of Place. So exciting. Yeah. We'll start in France because it's sexy and then we'll head on to
0:22.5	11 more fascinating destinations and wrap up, I think, the first week of November or so.
0:27.7	We're all going on a long trip together. Bring snacks. Make sure you have something neat.
0:33.2	Before we get going, we thought now might be a good time to reflect a little bit. On our first five seasons.
0:38.7	Yeah.
0:39.5	Over the past four years, we launched in 2020, we have accomplished a lot.
0:45.6	We have produced five seasons or 56 episodes of Strong Sense of Place.
0:51.3	On top of that, we shared our love of books through 101 episodes of
0:55.7	Library of Lost Time. Oh, wow. Yeah. We have introduced you to 500 books. And thanks to you,
1:05.2	we've had over a million downloads. Oh, that's very exciting. Yeah. That's news to me. You've been holding out.
1:12.5	And then Ron Charles of the Washington Post called this charming and delightful.
1:18.0	I mean, if Ron Charles says it, it's got to be true.
1:20.6	He's a journalist.
1:21.8	He has moral and legal obligation not to lie to the people.
1:25.8	But the biggest reward is that we've met some lovely, lovely people.
1:29.1	I feel like we're all part of a very large, very friendly, very smart book club. Yeah. We try not to
1:36.1	traffic in generalizations, but readers are the best people. 100%. And so far all you guys have done is
1:42.6	toughen up my stereotype for that. This season,
1:45.9	we are trying our best to get our audience to talk to each other. We are going heavy on
1:51.3	substack. We're moving our newsletters there, and we're doing that in part to take advantage of
1:56.2	the community features. It's an excellent opportunity for you to connect with fellow readers and share your
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