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From the Front Porch

Episode 165 || March Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

It's April, which means it's time to talk about what Chris and Annie were able to read in March. Follow along as we give our reviews! And hey, so sorry about all that background noise. Starting with episode 167, we will be recording with a brand new microphone setup and our quality should dramatically improve. Thank you so much for bearing with us in this transition period! Annie read: + Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi (on sale now) + A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle + All of This is True by Lygia Day Peñafor (on sale May 15) + The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer + The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn + Sociable by Rebecca Harrington Chris read: + The Oracle Year by Charles Soule 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 Spotify playlists, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

Hello, listeners, I have some good news and I have some bad news at the top of this episode.

0:06.0

The good news is that we are moving into our new recording space and we have some brand new recording equipment, which is so, so, so exciting.

0:13.8

Thank you so much to our Patreon supporters who have helped us with that transition.

0:18.9

And now the bad news.

0:21.0

We recorded this episode with the old recording setup, and the quality is not good.

0:27.7

So, sincere apologies for all of the electronic background noise.

0:32.4

I understand if you don't want to listen to this one, and I am so sorry.

0:36.9

Please check out the show notes, where you can see what we talked about and what we read this month.

0:41.9

Thank you for listening.

0:45.5

So we are in the middle of watching ER.

0:48.5

It is my first time, but like because ER was such a cultural phenomenon,

0:53.0

I feel like I'm very familiar with it. That being said, one thing that we have really enjoyed about these early seasons of ER, it's just a quality... Oh, it's so well done, yeah. And Jordan thinks it is way better than Gray's Anatomy. 100%. Right. I totally agree. agree, but of that comes from, he just finds a Grey's Anatomy to be over the top. It's too Sophie. Yeah. Okay. Agreed. So we're in season five now in VR. And I would like to know if this is a season... Where it jumps the shark. A little bit. Like just a smidge.

1:33.2

Again, not, I mean, Gray's anatomy is a lot.

1:33.6

Yeah.

1:34.8

So ER is not that.

1:35.2

No.

1:40.4

But we're watching it, and I don't know how familiar you are with past seasons,

1:45.9

but we're at this season where a new chief of surgery has been added. Is that Romano?

1:53.1

No, it's Amanda Lee. She was on for a two to three episode arc. I hope it's okay for me to tell you this. Yeah, of course. It is a decades old television program. We're talking about a

1:57.9

fifth season that aired in 1998, 99.

2:02.6

But we were watching it, and Dr. Amanda Lee is like a fraud.

2:09.8

Like, Catch Me If You Can kind of.

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