Episode 173 || May Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

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🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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As the old and definitely very common saying goes, May is the December of the spring, and with that in mind, it's time for our regular recap of the books Chris and Annie read this month. If you've got a few minutes, help us out by filling out this survey. Annie read: + The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon + The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager + Minding the Store by Julie Gaines (on sale October 30) + Hey Ladies! by Caroline Moss and Michelle Markowitz + The Optimistic Decade by Heather Abel + Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson + Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King + The Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman + A Double Life by Flynn Berry (on sale July 31) 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, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	So I am never here today.
0:03.6	Right.
0:04.3	I just feel like these last few weeks, we talked about, right, that May is the December of spring.
0:12.2	Yes, really?
0:13.0	Okay.
0:13.8	So I have not had graduations to attend.
0:17.8	I don't have children in school.
0:19.3	Right.
0:19.8	And yet I, too, feel the chaos of May.
0:24.0	And part of that is because my parents, as part of our family, like our extended family
0:30.6	Christmas gift, treated a large portion of our extended family to a few days at St. George
0:36.5	Island.
0:36.9	Great.
0:38.8	So Jordan and I took off work for a few days and St. George Island is my happy place. It is where I am calm, where my cell phone
0:46.3	just barely works, and where I can just... No service out there. Yeah, not good service out there.
0:51.8	And so I can just truly kind of decompress.
0:55.1	And it's where my family has been going for years, decades.
0:58.1	So I love going there.
1:01.5	As an adult, when you go on like vacations or trips, you also have like real life.
1:09.0	Yeah.
1:09.7	So meaning this is a place I vacationed as a child, but I'm no longer a life. Yeah. So meaning this is a place I vacationed as a child.
1:12.6	Right.
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