Episode 11 || The Girl on the Train

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We're back with Episode 11 of From the Front Porch! This episode, Annie is joined by Bookshelf staffers Sidney and Rebekah; they're talking about the new suspense novel The Girl on the Train -- a book readers are calling the next Gone Girl. They'll talk about whether that's a fair assessment, and why the book would make a fun book club read. (Not discussed? Author Paula Hawkin's ingenious way of marking time in the novel -- perhaps the staff's favorite characteristic of the book.) For information about the author, British journalist Paula Hawkins, Annie recommends this BookPage article, where she first heard about the book. Curious about what the experts are saying? This New York Times review should do the trick. Hey, book clubs: Penguin's done the work for you. Here's a book club discussion guide. Sidney liked Gone Girl better, but truthfully, these are two pretty different novels. The Wall Street Journal compares and contrasts Gillian Flynn's bestseller with The Girl on the Train. -- Like what you hear? Rate this podcast on iTunes.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 11 of From the Front Porch. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf in Thomasville, Georgia. Today I'm joined by my fellow bookshelf staffers, manager Rebecca, and communications specialist Sydney.
0:22.5	We're talking about the Girl on the Train,
0:24.4	a new suspense novel everyone's referring to
0:26.8	as the next Gone Girl.
0:28.5	Let's get started.
0:30.4	Hey girls.
0:31.2	Hello!
0:32.1	How exciting to have three people on the podcast. I hope it works out. We don't talk over each other and interrupt each other.
0:39.0	Well, we do that all the time. It'll be nice for everybody to get used to our different voices. So say who you are so people can identify who you are.
0:47.0	I'm Sydney. I'm Rebecca.
0:50.0	Hopefully we all sound different enough. We get confused as sisters a lot in the store.
0:55.0	So hopefully you can tell the difference in our voices.
0:58.0	So today we're talking about the girl on the train, which is a book that we all read when it came out about at the beginning of the year I guess,
1:04.7	so about three weeks ago, four weeks ago.
1:08.9	And bookseller perk, we all kind of read it before the release date so we were all pretty excited.
1:14.0	Rebecca why don't you tell me your initial thoughts about the book and then we're
1:17.6	going to dive into some specific things I think.
1:20.6	Well first of all I thought it just, it was an excellent and engaging read, kind of
1:26.1	from some unique perspectives too.
1:28.6	And the wait for it to actually be published so we could recommend it to customers was agonizing because I think I finished it like a week before it was published and that week was the longest week of my life.
1:39.4	Well, I kept getting antsy. I kept putting it on the shelf and think some Sydney was like it's not been released yet because I've kept putting on my staff
1:47.6	recommendations shelf I had read about the girl on the train through I think book page or something like that.
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