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Episode 307: "Best of" – Our Year in Reading, Ep. 31
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Episode Episode 307: "Best of" – Our Year in Reading, Ep. 31
This week on The Literary Life podcast, we are dipping back into the archives to bring you a delightful conversation from 2019 in which our Literary Life podcast hosts chatted all about their past year in books, as well as what they hoped to read in the coming year. Cindy, Angelina and Thomas began by sharing some commonplace quotes from books they read in 2019. They discussed their strategies for planning their reading goals and how they curate their "to be read" lists. Each of our hosts also shared some highlights from their year in books.
Angelina then introduced The Literary Life Podcast 20 for 2020 Reading Challenge. She talked about how to approach this reading challenge. Then our hosts talked a little about each category in the challenge and gave some of their possible book picks for the challenge. Cindy mentioned a list of Shakespeare's plays in chronological order. She also has a list of "Books for Cultivating Honorable Boys."
Happening now–the House of Humane Letters Christmas sale! Head over to the website to peruse the discounted webinars and mini-classes on sale, already discounted, no coupon code needed.
Don't forget to check out this coming year's annual Literary Life Online Conference, happening January 23-30, 2026, "The Letter Killeth, but the Spirit Quickeneth: Reading Like a Human". Our speakers will be Dr. Jason Baxter, Jenn Rogers, Dr. Anne Phillips, and, of course, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks.
For the full show notes for this episode, including book links, quotes, and today's poem, please visit our website at https://theliterary.life/307.
Links in the notes 6
- https://www.theliterary.life/20-for-2020-reading-challenge/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Shakespeare%27s_plays
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W_VtX8FlPdehbyfXzw-UtqULZJaC_qz8WfARsLX5FXo/edit?usp=sharing
- https://houseofhumaneletters.com/webinars/
- https://houseofhumaneletters.com/conference/
- https://theliterary.life/307
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