Season 3, Episode 18: Armchair Traveling with Strong Sense of Place
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee is visiting with Melissa Joulwan and Dave Humpreys, all the way from Prague to talk about Strong Sense of Place! We are discussing
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Bookish Moments: "triple-dipping," map adventures, and doubly broken reading
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Current Reads: we're visiting manor houses, the everglades, building a train, and seeing a refugee camp. Come with us.
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Deep Dive: all things Strong Sense of Place with Mel and Dave
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Book Presses: A feel-good classic, a boring book described in a new way (ha!), and a Nigerian treasure.
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Bookish Moments of the Week:
1:43 - Amazon Kindle
3:22 - Haunted Voices by Various Authors
4:21 - Google Maps
4:51 - Looking for Transwonderland by Noo Wara-Siwa
Current Reads:
7:25 - Snow by John Banville (Melissa)
8:30 - Schitt's Creek
8:37 - Agatha Christie novels
9:32 - Benjamin Black novels
11:47 - Nothing Like it in the World by Stephen Ambrose (Dave)
11:53 - Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
15:23 - Lobizona by Romina Garber (Kaytee)
18:34 - The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford (Melissa)
21:31 - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
22:45 - Adventures in Drawing by Scott Campbell (Dave)
22:56 - The Hug Machine by Scott Campbell
25:01 - When Stars are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson (Kaytee)
26:31 - Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Deep Dive - Strong Sense of Place:
27:21 - Strong Sense of Place website
30:18 - Cookbook author, you say? Well Fed by Melissa Joulwan and David Humphreys
31:38 - SSOP Circus Episode
31:40 - SSOP Sea Episode
32:52 - Moby Dick by Herman Melville
33:36 - Weekend Getaway landing page
35:13 - SSOP Sweden Episode
35:17 - Beartown by Fredrick Backman
36:51 - SSOP Prague podcast episode
40:37 - Prague books roundup
Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:
42:58 - A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (Melissa)
45:26 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Dave)
50:07 - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare (Kaytee)
50:04 - Kaytee's minisode with Abi
Connect With Us:
Strong Sense of Place: website, Podcast, Instagram, Twitter
Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram
Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram
Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram
Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram
@currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we've read recently. |
| 0:18.3 | And as you know, we won't shy away from having strong opinions, so be ready. We are light on the chit chat, heavy on the book talk, and |
| 0:24.8 | our descriptions will always be spoiler free. We'll discuss our current reads, a bookish deep dive, and then |
| 0:30.4 | we'll press books into your hands. I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama for living in New Mexico, |
| 0:36.1 | and I love using books to travel the world. I'm here today with Melissa Jewel One and Dave Humphreys. They've been a couple since 1992 and two of their |
| 0:45.0 | favorite things to do together are Reed and Travel. They've lived in San Francisco, Austin, |
| 0:49.6 | Vermont, and now they live in Prague. They're the creators and hosts of Strong Sense of Place, |
| 0:54.7 | a website and podcast to take you around the world |
| 0:57.1 | one book at a time. |
| 0:58.6 | This is episode number 18 of season 3, |
| 1:01.0 | and we're so glad you're here. |
| 1:02.4 | Hi guys. Hi, thank you for having us on your show. |
| 1:06.0 | Yeah, thanks so much. Yeah, it has been so fun even just this last like 15 minutes |
| 1:10.9 | getting to know you and chat with you and laugh with you I feel like this is going to be a great |
| 1:14.4 | episode so spoiler alert that's a lot of heat okay for our deep dive today I'm just gonna let everybody |
| 1:20.6 | know that we are gonna be talking all things strong sense of place. |
| 1:24.1 | We might do a little traveling as well, but really I want to get behind the scenes on the |
| 1:27.4 | podcast, talk about why you started it, what you're doing every week. |
| 1:30.9 | But first, as we always do, we're going to get started with our bookish moments of the week. |
| 1:35.0 | What do you have for us? Who wants to start? |
| 1:37.0 | So, since about 2010, I've been reading almost exclusively on my Kindle because that is when we started traveling |
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