There’s a different tone on the show today as we bring you an update on the state of the show in the first section.

Next, we bring you three of the Christian Spiritual books that have impacted us most deeply. It was uncanny how much these three “talked” to one another and were so appropriate for today!

Stay to the end to hear our closing thoughts! And please tell your thoughts in our ⁠Facebook Group!⁠

Previous Episodes Mentions in this Episode:

Ep 66 Is Ray Bradbury Still Relevant? His Unexpected Range and Timeless Themes with Heather Wells

Books & Authors Mentioned in this Episode:

The Ethics of Beauty by Timothy G. Patitsas

By Ann Voskamp:

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

The Way of Abundance: A 60-Day Journey into a Deeply Meaningful Life

Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Harrison Warren

Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation by Ruth Haley Barton

Quotes from:

Flannery O’Conner (via Tish Warren in Liturgy of the Ordinary): Push as hard as the age that pushes against you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Learn to love what must be done.

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Book Club on April 9th in the Facebook Group Led by the wonderful Heather Wells!

Join our reading group to read The Ethics of Beauty by Dr. Timothy Patitsas! Tricia is facilitating a group to read this book slowly - one chapter a month- for the first 9 months of this year. If you'd like to be included, reach out though our website or message us on social media.

Visit our new WEBSITE- ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.bookfarepodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

Leave us a 5 Star Review in iTunes! Leaving a 5 Star Review is the BEST way to grow our show and we dearly appreciate them!

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 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 through literature and training our affections one dog-eared, coffee-stained and child-graffitied book at a time!

Is the idea of reading the Great Works of Western Civilization intimidating or daunting?

Did you read classics in school and just didn’t get it or didn’t like them?

Is it difficult to know where to begin?

Well start where you are – here with us! We will walk you through a Baker’s Dozen Quick Tips, and give you 2 recommendations each from Children’s Literature, Short Stories, and Lite Classics as great entry points to the World’s Best Literature! It might just be easier than you think.

Let us know your thoughts in our ⁠Facebook Group!⁠

Previous Episodes Mentions in this Episode:

Ep 85 – What are the Best Habits for Good Readers? Start Here!

Ep 48 – To Reread or Not to Reread. That is Today’s Question.

Ep 3 - When It’s Been a While Since I Was Lost in a Good Book ... When You’ve Forgotten Your Reading Purpose.

Books & Authors Mentioned in this Episode:

Tending the Heart of Virtue by Vigen Guroian

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Peter Pan by JM Barrie

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

Lord Peter Whimsey Complete Short Stories by Dorothy L Sayers

The Lord Peter Whimsey Short Story Collection by Dorothy L Sayers

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Quotes from:

Andrew Kern

Andrew Klavaan

Join our reading group to read The Ethics of Beauty by Dr. Timothy Patitsas! Tricia is facilitating a group to read this book slowly - one chapter a month- for the first 9 months of this year. If you'd like to be included, reach out though our website or message us on social media.

Visit our new WEBSITE- ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.bookfarepodcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

Leave us a 5 Star Review in iTunes and we just might read it on air! Leaving a 5 Star Review is the BEST way to grow our show and we dearly appreciate them!

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 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 through literature and training our affections one dog-eared, coffee-stained and child-graffitied book at a time!

Today we dive into Detective Fiction Recommendations - after last week's Detective Fiction Primer. If you love mysteries (like Amanda) or even if it's not your favorite (like Elizabeth and Tricia), you will find a recommendation to start with. What did Elizabeth read as homework for this episode? Does Tricia read any besides Nero Wolfe? And HOW MANY will Amanda recommend?? Find out and then tell us what YOU think!

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Lady Darby Series and Verity Kent Series by Anna Lee Huber

The #1 Ladies Detective Agency Series by A M Smith

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers

The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton

The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton

The Father Brown Reader by Nancy Carpenter-Brown

The Trixie Belden Series by Julie Campbell

The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir A C Doyle

The Maisy Dobbs Series by J Winspear

And Only to Deceive by T Alexander

They Came to Baghdad and The Hollow by A Christie

The Eyre Affair by J Fforde

The Moving Toyshop by E Crispin

Trent’s Last Case by EC Bently

The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club