Episode 145 || New Books for Old Souls

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes we talk about old books like they're sacred and have nothing to do with what we're reading day to day, but new books and old books both speak to us, don't they? And sometimes they speak to each other. This week, Chris and Annie discuss some of their favorite classics and their favorite new books as if they are cousins. Of the kissing variety? For instance, if you like To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, check out Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett. If you like One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, you may enjoy Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo. If you like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, you may enjoy The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. If you like Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, you may enjoy My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. If you like The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, you may enjoy The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. If you like The Giver by Lois Lowry, you may enjoy Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. If you like In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, you may enjoy American Fire by Monica Hesse. If you like The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, you may enjoy Blankets by Craig Thompson. If you like The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer, you may enjoy Delancey by Molly Wizenberg. If you like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, you may enjoy The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant. November 25 is Small Business Saturday! Come visit us at the Bookshelf and see all of our small business friends. If you can't come to Thomasville that weekend, support your local businesses! Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for our theme music. Listen to more here. If you'd like to gain access to our exclusive content, consider supporting us on Patreon here. Full episodes of our show are available here.

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0:00.0	so I went to this traditional Hindu wedding last week
0:04.7	for my friend
0:06.7	Sindhu, S.J. Sindhu, author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies.
0:12.1	And she is Sri Lankan,
0:14.4	and she asked the guests in attendance
0:17.6	to embrace that culture for the weekend, which is to say she told us,
0:25.5	don't worry your nice liberal heads about cultural appropriation.
0:30.1	Please dress an Indian attire.
0:32.1	Okay.
0:32.6	I am asking you to.
0:34.0	Like, I would love that.
0:35.9	I encourage that you are participating in my culture with me.
0:39.0	And we were like, okay, cool. That's fun. Yeah. And fun that she knew all of you. Exactly. Yes.
0:44.3	She knew like, say, this is okay, guys. This is okay. We are, we are asking you to do this.
0:50.8	It's not a costume. You are coming to our wedding.
0:55.3	And so we did.
1:02.6	A lot of us from Florida State drove down there and had our traditional clothing.
1:10.9	And so it was a lot of my friends in saris and in like a lehinge camis, all these things that I learned about.
1:11.3	Okay.
1:15.0	And I was in what's called a curtid pajama set.
1:23.0	Did you know that the English word pajama comes from this other word pajama that is just a kind of pants?
1:24.5	But that kind of makes sense to me.
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