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From the Front Porch

Episode 156 || January Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It's our first monthly reading recap of 2018, and it's relatively light--in a good way! Follow along as Annie and Chris work their way through what they read, tropical fungal rash, and whatever David Duchovny is doing blurbing novels. Annie read: + The Ensemble by Aja Gabel + History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund + Campaign Widows by Aimee Agresti + This Love Story Will Self-Destruct by Leslie Cohen Chris read: + The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus Also mentioned: + The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin + Swamplandia by Karen Russell + Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin + The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close + All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg + Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell + Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 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 in-store playlists or Chris's comprehensive media log, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

So Jordan and I went out to dinner the other night, and we were once again mistaken for teenagers.

0:07.9

I don't really understand how that keeps happening. Like, you are in your 30s. I turned 32 on Friday.

0:16.6

I, this time, like, I think this happens to Jordan, perhaps with more regularity than it happens to me.

0:24.2

I mean, he has come home with some ridiculous stories.

0:27.5

Do you think it's his haircut?

0:29.3

I do, except I was looking at old pictures of Jordan when he had, like, way curlier hair.

0:34.0

Like, his hair has changed.

0:35.2

Yeah.

0:36.0

And to me, he looks older because his hair is not as curly.

0:42.8

But, like, he was dressed for work, which, I mean, he was at Publix probably a year ago,

0:49.3

and the cashiers, plural, all, like, took bets and, like, talked about how old he was because he was buying alcohol

0:55.8

and they couldn't they thought he was on his way to prom because he was dressed up because that's their

1:00.9

definition of prom so we get up we're at smash burger we go up to the person she takes our order

1:07.0

there is no reaction but while jordan's paying she all of a sudden goes, I'm sorry, you guys have wedding rings

1:16.4

on.

1:17.3

How old are you?

1:19.5

And this girl was probably in her, I don't know, late teens, early 20s.

1:25.7

And we said, yeah, we're married, which Jordan is an extrovert.

1:29.6

And so he loves to engage this further, which I'm not going to lie, I was entertained by it as well.

1:33.8

I'm an introvert, but sure, bring it on.

1:35.9

So he goes, wait, how old do you think we are?

1:39.8

Because I was just about to say, oh, we're actually 30.

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