Episode 133 || Three Books and a Movie

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We're hungry, so let's plan out a menu. This week, Chris and Annie have prepared a few "book flights" for you, and these are the tasting notes. We're also calling them "mini-syllabi" because books talk to each other, and it's the coolest thing. Also, a dyed-in-the-wool Slytherin. Annie's "Fear and Trembling" syllabus: + Final Girls by Riley Sager + Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka + Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng + Scream Chris's "A Space Odyssey" syllabus: + The Martian by Andy Weir + The Wanderers by Meg Howrey + The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber + Gravity Annie's "Not Another Teen Movie" syllabus: + Dumplin' by Julie Murphy + You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein + Dare Me by Megan Abbott + The DUFF Chris's "Kubelko Bondy" syllabus: + The End We Start From by Megan Hunter + The First Bad Man by Miranda July + Spider-Woman by Dennis Hopeless + The Babadook Annie's "Slightly Romantic" syllabus:+ Extraordinary Adventures by Daniel Wallace + This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison + The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison + Dan in Real Life Chris's [bonus] "Cruise Ship" syllabus: + "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace + "My Honeymoon, or A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Either" by Tina Fey + "Our Perfect Summer" by David Sedaris Chris's "The Earth is Alive" syllabus: + Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard + Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry + The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien + An Inconvenient Truth OR Mad Max: Fury Road OR Waterworld Annie's "Campus Tour" syllabus: + Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld + Shadow of the Lions by Christopher Swann + The Secret History by Donna Tartt + Dead Poets Society OR Liberal Arts Chris's "Apollo and Dionysus" syllabus: + The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietszche + The Secret History by Donna Tartt + Brave New World by Aldous Huxley + Black Swan Annie's "Family Dysfunction" syllabus: + The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney + Commonwealth by Ann Patchett + Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny + The Family Stone Learn more about Bookshelf Bucks on our store website.

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0:00.0	So I know you haven't been here in a couple weeks.
0:04.4	Yes.
0:04.7	So we're just catching up.
0:06.5	And I hate to be one of those people, but did you watch my Instagram story?
0:10.1	The one about the shoplifting?
0:11.9	Yes.
0:12.4	Yes, I did.
0:13.9	Okay.
0:14.9	There were some details of that story that I did not publish.
0:19.3	Okay.
0:20.1	But what you need to know, and you already know, is that we do these free books, and they're advanced reader copies. We keep them in a bin near the register, and if you buy a book, you get a book free. So this girl had bought a book, she'd probably 10 or 11, she went to go get her free book, the book she picked her grandmother didn't like, which goes back to last week's episode about letting your kids just read things.
0:40.7	Great things, read what they want.
0:42.1	Right.
0:42.6	So they got in kind of an argument, as we have seen occasionally happen in the store.
0:46.4	And so the grandmother left, like, waited outside for her.
0:49.7	And the granddaughter proceeded to go, like, continue to browse a children's section, which I
0:54.0	really thought nothing of. But then she left with the Inquisitor's Tale, like a hardback new Newberry winning. Yeah. Array. Which is in the YA section, isn't it? Or did we move it? We moved it to chapter. And, or it was shelved back there. I don't know if we purposely moved it. But that's where it was. I would put it in Y. But that's where it was. She leaves with it. And I see her leave, but like, I think to myself, well, I don't want to embarrass little girl in our store. So I was like, let me make sure I didn't imagine that. So I asked Kate and Ashley to look up in inventory, and sure enough, we only had one. It was missing. So I asked Kate and Ashley to look up in an inventory and sure enough we only had one.
1:27.7	It was missing. So I chased her down the street, ran into this young, I mean this, not
1:34.8	young, but this man who just did all sorts of weird things that also contributed to the
1:39.0	weirdness of this story. But basically I got the book back. You can hear more details.
1:43.0	Well you can't. My Instagram story disappeared, but you know what I mean. So I go back to the bookshelf, but got the book back. You can hear more details. Well, you can't. My Instagram story disappeared.
1:44.9	But you know what I mean.
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