The Top Books of 2022
Bright Hearth
Brian Sauvé, Lexy Sauvé
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Welcome to Bright Hearth, a podcast devoted to recovering the lost arts of homemaking and the productive Christian household with Brian and Lexy Sauvé.
This episode continues Season Two of Bright Hearth, looking at marriage as the heart of the productive Christian household. In this episode, we talk about our favorite books from the past year and the importance of being a couple that reads!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Bright hearth is brought to you by garlands of grace and our supporters at patreon.com. |
| 0:05.0 | The majority, though they are sometimes frequent readers, do not set much store by reading. |
| 0:12.0 | They turn to it as a last resource. They abandon it with alacrity as soon as any alternative pastimes come up. |
| 0:19.0 | It is kept for railway journeys, illnesses, odd moments of enforced solitude, or the process called |
| 0:25.4 | reading oneself to sleep. |
| 0:27.1 | They sometimes combine it with desultory conversation, often with listening to the radio. |
| 0:32.6 | But literary people are always looking for leisure and silence in which to read, and do so with |
| 0:37.7 | their whole attention. |
| 0:39.2 | When they are denied such attentive and undisturbed reading, even if for a few days they feel impoverished. |
| 0:45.8 | CS Lewis, an experiment in criticism. |
| 0:51.8 | Hello everybody, welcome back to Bright hear |
| 0:53.7 | Brian and Lexi here I'm very excited I don't know if you're as excited as I am |
| 0:58.0 | about this to be honest I am out of my mind I don't think you're as excited |
| 1:01.8 | as I am this is like a Christmas gift. I feel like we're giving our listeners. |
| 1:06.0 | Happy Christmas everybody. We are going over our top 20-22 books for different categories. |
| 1:14.8 | I think I'm gonna do a full annotated bibliography |
| 1:17.3 | on our Patreon page of my reading list, |
| 1:20.0 | but we're just gonna do some of our top favorites |
| 1:22.3 | from this year tonight, bray yes yes so well first of all did you set any reading goals for yourself this year because I did want to talk a little bit about that you know I didn't that. No I didn't, did you? Okay. My reading goal was to get |
| 1:33.8 | through all of the institutes and that really big book I read on the arts. Oh yeah. |
| 1:40.3 | By Van Loon. So Andrea gave me that idea because she read all of Shakespeare's works last year and she kind of divided up. I think she did four days a week so she didn't get behind. least this is what I ended up doing and she |
| 1:53.8 | divided the day the the book up by the number of pages she needed to read or |
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