Episode 174 || The Great American Read

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

PBS has recently released a two-part special called The Great American Read, hosted by Meredith Vieira and filled with interviews and sound bites from well-known authors and readers on the hundred novels that America loves best. This week on the show, Annie and Chris give their takes on the list. Also, goat or beaver? Please take just a minute to fill out our short survey. PBS's list can be found here. You can watch the special through your local PBS affiliate here. 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	I want to talk about something sad.
0:04.5	Okay.
0:05.7	Usually down?
0:07.0	I want an opinion.
0:08.5	Okay.
0:09.6	A year ago today, my dog died.
0:11.9	Yes.
0:13.1	I am having a hard time.
0:14.6	Yeah.
0:16.6	But my question is, and by the way, like my grandmother also died around the same time,
0:22.2	which is a sad little time of year.
0:23.7	Yeah.
0:25.1	But my question is, Jordan and I are trying to figure out at what point do you get a new pet?
0:29.8	What is the appropriate morning period?
0:32.0	Right.
0:32.6	And it's not just morning period.
0:34.5	I don't know if I want a new pet.
0:36.5	Right.
0:36.8	You want another Junie. Yes.
0:39.5	You don't want. So like I have looked, I mean, I have like, not religiously, but like I've
0:45.5	browsed the Humane Society websites. I've looked up French Bulldog rescues because French Bulldogs
0:51.7	are what I wanted to begin with before we got Junie.
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