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From the Front Porch

Episode 134 || August Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

August is over, and we're ready to celebrate. Annie and Chris are back to talk about the books they read in August, despite--or maybe in spite of--how terrible the month of August is. Also, can the old Taylor please come to the phone? Chris read: + nothing + life gets in the way + part of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig Annie read: + Final Girls by Riley Sager + The Glass Eye by Jeannie Vanasco (on sale October 3) + There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins + Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka + The Misfortune of Marion Palm by Emily Culliton + Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong + Of Mess and Moxie by Jen Hatmaker + The Party by Robyn Harding Also mentioned: + Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood + Brain on Fire by Susannah Calahan + Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins + Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty + Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford + Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple + Seven by Jen Hatmaker + For the Love by Jen Hatmaker + The Dinner by Herman Koch There are changes on the horizon! Stay tuned!  There's one day left to sign up for September's Shelf Subscription pick, so check out our store website for more details!

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What do you think about Taylor Swift's new single? So I mostly, I think it's fine. And honestly, I feel like the first song that she always releases is, it winds up never being my favorite on the album. Right, like, shake it off. Yes. It was like fine. Fine and a different, but like, actually, maybe not. Great album. Yeah. So that how I feel like, okay, I feel like this could be the sign of like really good things. I do think a couple things. I think it's hilarious that it's a riff on I'm too sexy for my shirt. That's where the chorus came from. Like literally is credited partly. Oh yeah oh wow look at your face i knew something

0:39.9

before you did i'm so proud i mean i've just been listening to it a lot i haven't like read anything

0:44.4

about it because like i got on twitter which was always a mistake yeah um like anytime i anytime

0:49.7

the story begins with i got on twitter it's never a good story But it was just all these people like saying, like the one still from the video that was

0:59.1

released is like stealing from Beyonce's formation or whatever it is video.

1:04.9

Yeah, formation.

1:06.8

And like there were a couple funny ones.

1:08.7

Yeah.

1:09.3

Like the one that was like,, my daddy, Pennsylvania, my mama, Pennsylvania.

1:15.1

You put that pencil with a vanya.

1:17.2

I'm from Pennsylvania.

1:19.3

But, like, there were so many that I just thought were mean-spirited and not funny.

1:24.9

Because, like, is Taylor Swift the first person to like stand in a line with dancers

1:30.3

in a nice house no I feel like Britney Spears to that but also neither was Beyonce right I was

1:35.2

I was not to say I feel like Britney Spears are that um and so I don't know I think things jump

1:38.2

to conclusions and I don't people I don't know I think we're reading too much into it it's too

1:42.8

soon to tell what anything is however I really like the song and I love how it sounds and it's all chaotic

1:48.6

and weird. It's super weird. And I'm on board until like the chorus and then I feel a little,

1:54.0

oh, is this kind of sexual? It's a really sexy sounding chorus, isn't it? I said that too

1:59.6

and I was like, oh.

2:01.0

I feel uncomfortable.

2:02.0

There's so much happening in just these sounds.

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