Episode 154 || New Year, New You?

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's a new year and we've got our resolutions ready, but what about all those books that are supposed to help us sort ourselves out? This week, Annie and Chris chat about self-help and personal growth. Pretty scary, right? Mentioned this week: + The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton + Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller + A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller + Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell + The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo + The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell + The New Minimalism by Cary Telander Fortin and Kyle Louise Quilici + The Capsule Wardrobe by Wendy Mak + The Curated Closet by Anuschka Rees + The Art of Stopping Time by Pedram Shojai + How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (on sale February 6) + The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead + Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill by Gretchen Rubin + The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin + Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin + The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin + The Family Manager by Kathy Peel + The Simplified Life by Emily Ley + When by Daniel H. Pink + Originals by Adam Grant + Grit by Angela Duckworth + What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like our side-podcast Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	So we went on a ghost tour when we were in St. Augustine. Fun. And like, I know. Right. They're just supposed to be fun, guys. It's just supposed to be fun. It's just, it's supposed to be hokey and weird. And, like, it was a good way to spend the evening. Yeah. It's all about your tour guide. Okay. And this is what I want to
0:21.6	talk about. Okay. Her name was Sydney. Okay. It was her first night. Oh, okay. We were her first
0:27.7	tour. Oh, gosh. Yeah. And she got it and she was like 20. I imagine she was like, I don't know this for sure,
0:34.7	but I imagine she was like a student at Flagagler College. Right. Who just like...
0:38.4	Needed a gig.
0:39.5	Needed a gig.
0:40.5	Um, and she was just so cute and so nice and was just like, she got on the bus and was like,
0:47.0	okay, everybody, um, I'm terrified.
0:51.0	So we're all in this together.
0:53.7	And it's so funny because like she had memorized the script, obviously and was telling us in this together. And it's so funny because she had memorized the script, obviously,
0:57.0	and was telling us all this stuff.
0:58.3	But she kept being like,
1:01.3	and you might think that this is the kind of thing
1:04.5	that happened at this location.
1:07.1	But actually...
1:09.0	And kept doing...
1:10.2	But actually the whole time.
1:12.4	But my favorite little thing that she did was she would tell the little anecdotes,
1:16.8	like the little scary anecdotes around town.
1:19.2	And she'd be like, and this tree in the cemetery is where you will often see a little boy named James playing.
1:26.0	The first time I saw James who is in this tree would
1:29.5	you talk to James pretty scary right oh she ended and she kept saying pretty scary
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