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Book Fare: Book Club Fun, Wholesome Recommendations, Deep Discussions

Do you need permission to refresh your reading goals for the year? Permission to redo your goals? How about permission to have reading goals for the first time this year? We talk about how our year has gone (or stalled out) this year so far.

Do you want A LOT of great recommendations to finish your year strong? This episode is chock full of classical literature, non-fiction, sci-fi, humorous stories, fairy tales, poetry, scary stories, and so much more!

Do you need a laugh? We laughed at ourselves quite a bit in this one. Pull up a chair at our table, grab your cup of coffee or gingerberry kombucha, and laugh along with us!

Books mentioned in this episode

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II, by Molly Guptill Manning

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren

The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo

Endless Life: Poems of the Mystics, by Scott Cairns

The Ethics of Beauty, by Timothy G Patitsas

Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine

The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey

This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems, by Wendell Berry

The Light Princess, by George MacDonald

Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury

Inferno, by Dante Alighieri

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury

The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Miserables, by David Bellos

How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem, by Rod Dreher

The Truth and Beauty: How the Lives and Works of England’s Greatest Poets Point the Way to a Deeper Understanding of the Words of Jesus, by Andrew Klavan

How to Tell A Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor, by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Code of the Woosters, by PG Wodehouse

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

Pilgrim’s Progess, by John Bunyan

Do you love books or do you want to? Are you tired of reading in a vacuum and struggling to find good books? Has motherhood somehow made your brain a dusty shamble?

Friend, you are in the right place! BookFare Podcast is here to to help you find great books that you will LOVE and a community to share them with, all while nurturing your own brain and helping you create a culture of reading in your life and family.

We are Elizabeth, Tricia, and Amanda, and we are here to help you do just that!

We’re not academics or scholars. We’re just three women, mamas, and friends who believe in the power of great books to grow our minds and hearts and those of our children. We have all been through seasons when we barely read and seasons when our brains felt left-behind. We have struggled to find the right things to read and people to talk about them with. But through our experiences with different book clubs, in-person and online, and dedicated reading through the years, we have started to crack the formula for keeping great books in our lives and families through all seasons. We love this journey, and we are on it with you.

That’s why we started Book Fare - to create a safe and welcoming place for women who care about the content of what they read- an exciting book club that combines FUN with truth, goodness and beauty!

So…From newbie readers to seasoned bibliophiles, from beach reads to Beowulf, from new releases to classic literature and everything in between- we are here to explore and curate reading content for you and your family.

Together, we will laugh and think our way through all that good and great literature has to offer. We will seek virtue and values thru literature and training our affections one dog-eared, coffee-stained and child-graffitied book at a time!

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