Episode 123 || First Impressions

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We judge books by their covers so you don't have to. First impressions are important, but are they always right or fair? Annie and Chris talk through the 50-Page Rule, trusting your gut, changing your impression, and the importance of not reading in a vacuum. Also, recommend us to a friend! Discussion includes: + The Leavers by Lisa Ko + Borne by Jeff VanderMeer + Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen + Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy + Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky + Frankenstein by Mary Shelley + The Wanderers by Meg Howrey + The First Bad Man by Miranda July + The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger + Exit West by Mohsin Hamid + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal + Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson + One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Tag us (@bookshelftville) in a tweet or Instagram post telling us what we're doing right. We want to give you more!

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0:00.0	So tell me about your dream.
0:02.2	Okay, so I only dream about weird, no, I only dream about real things.
0:08.6	Jordan only dreams about weird things.
0:10.4	I dream about real things.
0:12.1	So I dream about real people and frequently they are people I know makes my real life real awkward.
0:19.6	So I had a dream that you and I were at a county fair.
0:24.5	And you and I were at a county fair together.
0:29.3	And we were going and doing all the rides.
0:32.9	Okay.
0:33.7	It's super weird.
0:35.6	And then we get off the ride and they're doing a reenactment of the
0:41.0	handmaid's tale and you volunteered me to be in this reenactment of the handmaid's tail and I was the
0:48.2	thing I would do and I was like but Chris I haven't in the dream I'm saying Chris I haven't read
0:53.5	the handmade's tail and you're like it's okay you'll figure it out and so you helped me like get And I was like, but Chris, I haven't, in the dream, I'm saying, Chris, I haven't read the Handmaid's Tale.
0:54.3	And you're like, it's okay, you'll figure it out.
0:56.2	And so you helped me, like, get my costume ready. And then you, like, sent me out, like a stage mall to do this reenactment of the Handmaid's Tale. And that was my dream. That's pretty good. because man the horrifying thing is you would figure it out
0:54.4	and I don't I don't like it
0:56.8	I don't It's pretty good. Because, man, the horrifying thing is you would figure it out.
1:12.3	And I don't like it.
1:14.4	I don't want to do that.
1:15.9	Don't want it.
1:17.0	Don't like it.
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