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From the Front Porch

Episode 121 || May Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week, Chris is back to discuss the books he and Annie read in May, one of which doesn't actually come out until next calendar year. Whoops. Also, May is a very, very long month. Annie read: + When You Find Out the World is Against You by Kelly Oxford + Option B by Sheryl Sandberg + Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett + The Assistants by Camille Perri + Ms. Marvel, vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona + The Senator's Children by Nicholas Montemarano (out November 7) + The Leavers by Lisa Ko + Windfall by Jennifer Smith + Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny + The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (out January 2018) Chris read: + The Inquisitor's Tale by Adam Gidwitz + It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor (out October 17) + Borne by Jeff VanderMeer See also Katie Couric's interview with Sheryl Sandberg here.

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0:00.0

So have you heard of this board game called The Voting Game?

0:07.0

No.

0:08.1

All right.

0:08.9

So we had friends in town this past weekend, and we love to play this game with them.

0:12.5

And it's like, so it's these different things, like, most likely. Like you film, it comes with cards and you

0:24.5

fill in the blank. And then you're supposed to like assign each person in the group. So, for

0:28.6

example, um, one of the cards is most likely to drop a person in a trust fall because they think

0:34.5

it's funny. Okay. I love this game. So Jordan got that one unanimously.

0:39.3

So, but what's funny is each group of people you play it with, it's totally different.

0:45.1

So with the four of these friends of mine, one of my friends, she always is like the wild

0:52.5

and crazy one, but that's hilarious because she's not

0:54.8

really. It's just with the four of us, of the four of us. That is her. And at the end, you just get

1:00.7

to see all these different cards that people associate with you. So, I want to play this game.

1:06.1

Okay, it's super fun. We should play it as a staff. We should. Because it is hilarious. I'm so excited

1:10.7

already.

1:11.4

So one of them is most likely to get their feelings heard after playing this game.

1:15.8

That's also fun.

1:16.7

Me.

1:17.7

But so this time I got most likely to be a local news anchor, which I was like accurate.

1:24.2

I'll take it.

1:25.6

One of them was most likely to be the prom date for the other guy.

1:29.9

So it's two couples.

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