Episode 132 || Back to School

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It's that time of year again, and we can't believe it. Annie and Chris talk about some of their favorite books for emerging readers and sit down for an interview with one such reader. Also, the importance of haircuts and a pregnant pause (or three). Mentioned this week: + Miles Morales, Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds + The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey + Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney + Dog Man by Dav Pilkey + Theodore Boone series by John Grisha + Treasure Hunters series by James Patterson + Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale + Emily Windsnap series by Liz Kessler + Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer + Hatchet by Gary Paulsen + The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle by Bill Myers + A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle + The Austin Family Chronicles by Madeleine L'Engle + The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis + Bloomability by Sharon Creech + The Wanderer by Sharon Creech + The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg + From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg + Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson + An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott + Little Women by Louisa May Alcott + The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain + Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery + A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein + Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein + The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein + The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer + All-of-a-Kind Family series by Sydney Taylor + Bobbsey Twins series by Laura Lee Hope + Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace + Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol + Nimona by Noelle Stevenson + Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur by Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare + Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson + Hamster Princess series by Ursula Vernon + I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis + Time Warp Trio series by John Scieszka + The Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne

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0:00.0	So my girlfriend and I last week went to Naples to visit her family, and we also ended up visiting her 97-year-old grandmother and her nursing home.
0:12.1	Impressive, 97.
0:14.0	I was warned ahead of time that she has dementia.
0:16.7	It's not always super elucid.
0:18.6	All right.
0:19.9	But, you know, nursing home and 97. And I'm like, all right, yeah. I mean, and my grandmother had Alzheimer's and like, I've dealt with this. I can hang. Yeah. And so we get there. And she's actually fairly lucid. And she, like, recognizes Kelsey and, like, can place her with her mom and everything and like
0:37.5	it's all fine she gets transfixed on Kelsey's hair for a bit and just keeps talking about it and like
0:43.8	it's so long it's not that long but you know when you're 97 you can barely see and you can only
0:49.8	just see the length of hair she also like obviously didn't know who I was and couldn't see me
0:56.3	and just kept asking, who is she? Well, you do have that curly hair. I do. And I think that's,
1:02.4	and it was longer last week. And I think she could just see that. And it's like, who is she?
1:08.6	Who is this tall, skinny woman? Who did she come with?
1:12.1	But then the best was, we were sitting there and talking about something, about family
1:18.1	or, you know, the old days.
1:20.8	And she just says, it won't be long now.
1:25.3	And we kind of pause and just feel the, you know, the pregnancy of the moment.
1:31.3	And she goes, I can feel it.
1:34.7	Oh, shoot.
1:35.2	It gets worse.
1:36.6	And we're all just kind of like, what are you talking about?
1:39.2	And then she says, I need to get my hair cut.
1:45.0	And it was just exactly the right thing.
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