Category Archives: book swap

FoC 028: What Do Greek Myths and Victorian Poetry Have in Common?

June 23, 2015 Christy Isinger 4 Comments

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We’re talking about them on our new book swap episode! Today we’ll be exploring Greek myths and Victorian poetry in our latest book swap selections Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis and Possession by A.S. Byatt.

We discuss the beautiful imagery of faith in C.S. Lewis’s masterwork, then toss around ideas of feminism, sexuality, marriage, and creativity with A.S. Byatt’s Possession. We hope this conversation makes you want to pick up these books if you haven’t read them yet, and if you have, we hope you’ll join in the discussion!

We’re also excited to introduce The Fountains of Carrots Raspberry Cordial Social Club – a Facebook group dedicated to fostering cultured conversation and making friends with fellow Fountains of Carrots Podcast listeners. We will be hanging out there on Facebook and hope to hear from you and have great discussions online. We’ll also share upcoming episodes, topics, and ideas as well as hear from you and what you would like to hear on the podcast. We hope it’ll feel like we’re all having coffee together on Facebook, so come on over!

Mentioned in this episode:

Possession by A.S. Byatt

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

Beauty and the Beast

Gilead

True Detective

Haley’s crazy road trip.

The upcoming Edel Gathering

Missed the past book swap episodes? See them all here.

You can listen to us on iTunes, and we’d love a quick rating or review. If you have an android device we’re also on Stitcher. And as always, you can find all links, show notes, upcoming guests, and listen to all episodes at Fountains of Carrots.com.

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FoC 016: The Soul’s Journey of Faith in Gilead and In This House of Brede

March 17, 2015 Christy Isinger 8 Comments

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Today we’re swapping more of our favourite books and discussing them together. This time we picked two books the other hadn’t yet read that were focused on the life of faith: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and In This House of Brede by Rumer Gooden. Both books are beautiful examples of authentic, living faith and were rewarding to read and talk about.

We also talked about these other novels written by these two great authors:

Home by Marilynne Robinson

Lila by Marilynne Robinson.

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden.

Kingfishers Catch Fire by Rumer Godden. (This is the title Christy completely forgot – but it’s actually a pretty unforgettable story!)

Have you read these books? Did they touch your heart as well? We’d love to hear what you thought of them or any of the other books written by these great writers!

Coming next week:

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FoC 008: Harriet Vane is Not A Floozie

January 20, 2015 Christy Isinger 20 Comments

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When we found out we hadn’t read some of each other’s favourite books of all time, we decided to fix that by reading them at the same time and then talk about them on the podcast! Christy read one of Haley’s favourites, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
while Haley was told to read Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers. These two books may seem to be completely different, except that they are both really fun to talk about!

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is an intricate fantasy about magic in England at the beginning of the nineteenth century, while Gaudy Night is a detective novel set in Oxford during the 1930’s. We chat about feminism, marriage, and the intellectual life with Gaudy Night, then talk about magic, evil, and an alternate history of England with Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. This episode has a little of everything!

We also talk about how we find time to read, what works best for us, and how we find the books we read. We hope you’ll share your favourite reads with us too, and maybe inspire you to pick up a little fantasy or detective fiction!

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