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From the Front Porch

Episode 157 || Love It or Loathe It, Vol. 11

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It's the latest installment of our show within a show, Love It or Loathe It, in which frequent contributors Emily and Hunter discuss a contentious book with Annie in a book club-style roundtable. This week: Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro. Also mentioned this week: + What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell + Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff + At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon + Gilead by Marilynne Robinson + Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer + The Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates 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 weekly behind-the-scenes newsletter, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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so the flu season is upon us and um i i thought i was safe since i've been taking so much

0:07.9

NyQuil um apparently NyQuil does not have anything to do with your immune i don't know in my head it made

0:13.8

sense you should call someone next time i should but i i was a check i was like tamaflu would have been a better

0:19.1

well i took tamiflu later after I was diagnosed.

0:21.5

Elderberry, that's it. Emergency. Well, now I know for the future, but I was dying in bed with a hundred and four-degree. Yeah, I was dying in bed with 104-degree fever. And I thought if I, I thought I'm going to have all this time to read while I'm out recuperating. but the one book that I really had time to read, which was called Afterbirth, I, like, was having these, like, these fever dreams. I was probably horrifying. Oh, yeah. I had, like, nightmares about, like, dying children. It was awful. Oh, that is awful. It is. And so I decided to switch over to Grace and Frankie. and I don't know if I've got three of you guys have seen it. It's Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and the beginning of the fourth season has Lisa Kudrow, who is like, she's my spirit animal. And, like, I just. Lisa Kudrow or Phoebe? Like, both. Oh, I think Lisa Kudro is a quirky woman. She is. I think she is. She is. And

1:13.8

but she's so smart guys. She is really smart. She really speaks French. I know. Listen, so many

1:19.7

people speak French. But yeah. But so, but I, but in one of my fever dreams, though, I thought that I was, I thought I was in the show as, um, as, uh, Lisa Cudrow. And I, and when I tell I was I thought I was in the show as um as uh Lisa

1:29.3

Kudrow and and when I came home I was like just like died like half out of it and I was like

1:34.4

yeah I was like I painted Grace's nails and and then I painted um Frankie's nails and he was like

1:41.7

who what and I was like you know Grace Frankie the gang the gang yeah and he was like, what? And I was like, you know, Grace, Frankie.

1:45.4

The gang.

1:47.0

And he was like, oh, oh my.

1:49.6

And he like started like rushing all this medicine to me

1:52.1

to make sure that I wasn't still ill.

1:54.8

So.

1:56.7

So.

1:56.9

So.

1:57.6

Yeah.

1:59.8

You know,

2:00.0

and a and the South. I'm Annie Jones. Welcome to episode 157 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books,

2:18.7

small business, and life in the South.

2:20.6

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, and I'm joined today by dear friends and frequent

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