Episode 106 || Oscar Season Reading Recs

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It's Oscar Season, so Annie and Chris are rounding up their favorite books for this year's moviegoers. Also in this episode, a new feature (!!!) and Chris continues to swallow his words. If you liked Arrival, you may like: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn How to Life Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu The Time Traveler's Almanac by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer If you liked Hell or High Water, you may like: True Grit by Charles Portis American Fire by Monica Hesse Ordinary Grace by Willian Kent Krueger All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy If you liked Hidden Figures, you may like: The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan The Radium Girls by Kate Moore Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County by Kristen Green If you liked Moonlight, you may like: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman The Whale by Mark Beauregard If you liked La La Land, you may like: I'm Glad About You by Theresa Rebeck The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer NEW TITLES OUT THIS WEEK: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Chilbury Ladies' Choir by Jennifer Ryan We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter We Are Okay by Nina LaCour The Airbnb Story by Leigh Gallagher Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt

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0:00.0	Can I tell you something horrifying?
0:02.0	Absolutely.
0:04.0	Alright, so I got here today and had like just finished eating and was just getting set behind the counter.
0:13.0	And Magalie and I just kept hearing this like kind of loud and very regular click sound from the front of the store.
0:22.0	And we were like, what is that?
0:23.6	A cricket.
0:24.6	A cricket.
0:25.2	That would be nice.
0:26.1	And I thought, it sounds like somebody clipping their nails.
0:30.6	No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
0:32.5	And so Michael and I, like, did our, like, subtle, like, I'm going to go straight in books.
0:36.1	Right.
0:36.3	And look at what's happening in the front of the store. And there was a, there was a woman sitting at the front
0:43.3	of the store, clipping her fingernails. Into our carpet? Yeah. And I told Nagley, like, it wouldn't be,
0:51.9	like, this is socially unacceptable on every level in an every conceivable universe like, it wouldn't be, like, this is socially unacceptable on every level in
0:54.5	in every conceivable universe.
0:57.5	But it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if she at least, like, didn't leave the
1:03.5	clippings.
1:05.3	Oh my gosh.
1:07.6	And so, after she left, I went and investigated, and there were just clippings everywhere, all over the front.
1:14.7	Why?
1:15.8	I don't know.
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