How do we keep our humanity in the face of overwhelming fear and great evil? If CS Lewis and Robin Williams wrote a book together, what would it be like? What is the Moral Imagination and why is it so fundamental to a child’s character development? How can one come out of a difficult season of life at peace? These and other topics and themes come from our Top Books of 2023! Welcome to our final episode of the year where we serve up a fresh-out-of-the-oven list of wonderful books you might want consider reading in the new year. These books have stayed with us, touched us, and changed us. We reflect on why reflecting on one’s reading is beneficial, and, as always, we do it with a good dose of laughter. We hope you enjoy this episode and share with us your reading year as well. Let us know your Best Books of 2023 in our ⁠Facebook Group here!⁠ Book Mentioned in this Episode: The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry Dead Man’s Walk by Larry McMurtry The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco The Little Mermaind by Hans Christian Andersen The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis Little Women by Lousia May Alcott Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury 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! All 5 Star reviews will be entered for a change to win BookFare Swag - namely a BookFare Mug!! 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! Join our private Facebook group (search BookFare Podcast) and follow us on Facebook (BookFare Podcast Page) and Instagram (@bookfarepodcast). We love this community so, so much, and we know it will be better with YOU in it.

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