Prague Times27 Jan 2022

FOLKS - Strong Sense of Place

Guests: Melissa Joulwan & David Humphreys, Strong Sense of Place podcast

Books can entertain, inform and even make you want to travel. My guests today run the Strong Sense of Place podcast out of their flat here in Prague which combines the best of reading and travel in one jam-packed website. Go all over the world without ever leaving your home.

See a video version on our YouTube channel.
Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our Buy Me a Coffee page!

SECTIONS

01:49 - The Strong Sense of Place podcast

03:37 - The purpose of the podcast

06:50 - A world tour from home

11:10 - Nerdy organization & gold stars

14:55 - Becoming a reader

18:27 - Kindle a flame for reading

21:40 - Transcribing for empathy

28:22 - Lots of work

29:44 - Cookbooks & roller derby

34:24 - SSOP Reading Atlas. theme episodes, apocalypse novels

39:10 - Favourite books of 2021

40:51 - Telling lies to tell the truth

Music by Fanette Ronjat

More info:

Strong Sense of Place website
Goodreads
BBEdit 14 Bare Bones software
Oprah's Book Club
Sonix transcription software
Sara Nović website
Secret Prague by Martin Stejskal
Atlas Obscura - The definitive guide to the world's hidden wonders
Well Fed paleo cookbooks
Living Paleo for Dummies by Melissa Joulwan & Kellyann Petrucci
Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track by Melissa Joulwan
The Hotrod Honeys on Texas Rollergirls
Station Eleven
Termination Shock
The Sentence
Our Country Friends
The Kingdoms
Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
Hell of a Book

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