FOLKS - Strong Sense of Place

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.

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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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