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From the Front Porch

Episode 124 || Summer Reading Recs

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Summer has officially begun, so Annie and Chris are here to tell you what you should be reading--whether you're inside to escape the rain or outside with the sand and sun. Also, what happens when children become club promoters?  Beach Books + The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close + The Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor + Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave + Windfall by Jennifer Smith + The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak Page-Turners  + Dark Matter by Blake Crouch + Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld + Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy + American Fire by Monica Hesse (on sale July 11) Stories with a Twist  + Into the Water by Paula Hawkins + Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane Family Dramas  + Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood + Last Things by Marissa Moss + Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny + Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Heavy Thinking + Option B by Sheryl Sandberg + Borne by Jeff VanderMeer + The Leavers by Lisa Ko + Theft by Finding by David Sedaris + Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu  You can read Maile Meloy's interview with Ann Patchett here. Hey, we're new to Stitcher and would love to build our review base. Can you help us get to 25 reviews? There's a prize in it for you...

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0:00.0

So we spent this past weekend with lots of my extended family.

0:05.2

And Jordan, I think as you well know, is good with the children.

0:11.2

Yes.

0:11.6

Just all the children.

0:13.5

And these were like cousins' children who we hadn't seen in years.

0:19.8

Some of them we had never seen, period.

0:23.3

And two of them were five years old.

0:27.5

So they're both like second cousins or whatever cousins' children are to each other.

0:32.2

Yep. Yep.

0:33.0

Second cousins.

0:33.9

So they came up to Jordan and just fell back in love with him like immediately.

0:40.4

And kept asking him about, um, the movie night they were going to have in their hotel room.

0:47.2

And, but it was like a little frat boy, like inviting people, like, room 120. And, um, there will be snacks snacks and then he was like announcing it's like

0:58.0

in the lobby of this like state park resort place he's like a club promoter yes yeah mommy what room

1:05.1

again 120 that's 120 everybody like it was adorable and so j went, because he's better than any other grown-up I know, no other grown-up went to the party. But Jordan did and wound up watching most of Pete's Dragon. Good. With the entire group of children. Oh, God, the children are still watching Pete's Dragon. Oh, I guess it's a new one. Oh, I forgot.

1:27.7

But still, that's fine.

1:29.0

Old Pete's dragon is my favorite.

1:30.5

But we get in the car, like, two days later to go home, and I get a text from my cousin,

1:35.9

and she said her little girl was in the back seat just going, I wish Annie and Jordan

1:40.7

were my parents.

1:45.1

And Jordan and I were like, goals.

1:47.9

Goals.

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