Episode 108 || February Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Annie and Chris walk you through what they read in February while several intrepid Saturday afternoon customers climb over a literal barricade outside the door to use the [closed] bathroom. Annie read: + The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas + This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel + Last Things by Marissa Moss + Into the Water by Paula Hawkins + Difficult Women by Roxane Gay + Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Annie is currently reading: + Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Chris read (but hasn't quite finished): + Difficult Women by Roxane Gay + Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Follow Annie's reading on Instagram at #anniereads2017.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about The Bachelor.
0:03.5	Let's.
0:05.0	What the crap is that?
0:06.6	Listen, I, man, I, I, I've a little bit come full circle on Corinne.
0:11.9	Not that I like Corinne.
0:13.7	I think she's perfect for Nick.
0:15.1	I think she's kind of perfect for Nick, but also, I know that somewhere in their, like,
0:19.6	editors' vaults, they have another edit of the show
0:22.6	where Corinne is like, kind of like oddball spoiled rich girl, not the villain, and Vanessa
0:28.5	is the villain of the show.
0:29.9	Ooh, accurate.
0:31.2	Don't you, can I, may I make a literary comparison?
0:34.0	Please.
0:35.0	I hope you think this is funny, because I thought it was.
0:38.1	So, pity laugh, if you must.
0:39.8	Okay, so I tweeted this the other day because I was watching The Bachelor, and I was thinking, Raven, she's a mass market paperback.
0:50.7	Rachel, she's literary fiction.
0:56.6	Corinne, she's a romance novel Vanessa, she's a self-help book
0:59.5	Which would you rather read?
1:06.6	That's my
1:07.9	That's my literary take on The Bachelor.
1:11.7	In scene.
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