Episode 131 || Shelf Subscription Sneak Peek

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Don’t get scared of the word “change.” Annie and Chris are joined this week by the rest of the Bookshelf staff. Ashley, Maddie, and Kate are here to talk about Shelf Subscriptions and what you can expect when you choose one of us to pick out a brand new book for you. Also, let’s take bets on which Office alum is Mindy Kaling’s baby daddy. Annie’s picks are for fans of: + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin + Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal Chris’s picks are for fans of: + Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders + Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel + A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan Maddie’s picks are for fans of: + Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel + The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman + The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemison Kate’s picks are for fans of: + The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee + The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell + Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Ashley’s picks are for fans of: + Paper Towns by John Green + What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons + This Is How It Always Is by Lauren Frankel Magali’s picks are for fans of: + The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle + The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien + Tlll We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis Learn more about Shelf Subscriptions at our store website. If you would like to advertise your business on From the Front Porch, email Annie at annie [at] bookshelfthomasville [dot] com.

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0:00.0	I on a scale one to ten how much do you care about celebrity news?
0:04.0	Um like it depends on the celebrity but I'm gonna say like roughly five or six.
0:09.0	I'm an eight or nine.
0:10.0	Okay.
0:11.0	And Mindy Kayling just came out that it just came out that she's probably pregnant.
0:16.0	Oh.
0:17.0	Right?
0:19.0	Um, I am more excited about Mindy Kaying's possible pregnancy than I am about any actual person I know.
0:27.3	Including Magley who still hasn't had her baby.
0:30.6	Well, I care deeply about Magley and her upcoming birth, but I'm really invested in Mindy Kaylings.
0:38.3	Okay, sure. Fair.
0:40.2	Because I've been reading her books for years, her two books, and then I also really loved
0:45.8	her writing on the office. But she wrote about how much she kind of wanted to grow her family
0:51.6	and have a family, but you know I'm really invested.
0:54.4	Why?
0:56.1	Nobody knows who the daddy is.
0:58.3	Oh, mystery.
1:02.9	I want it to be BJ Novak so bad that I don't care about anything else.
1:05.1	What if it's like a virgin birth kind of deal?
1:06.8	Better, even better.
1:07.1	Good.
1:08.8	But mostly BJ Novak. Okay.
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