Episode 176 || Summer Literary Lineup

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It's time for our seasonal look at what's on the horizon in Book World! These are Chris and Annie's picks for summer 2018. Also, not every novel whose title is just a woman's first name was necessarily written in the 18th century. New in June: + There There by Tommy Orange + Florida by Lauren Groff + A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza + Campaign Widows by Aimee Agresti + Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton + The Book of Essie by Meghan Maclean Weir + Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai + The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz + Dreams of Falling by Karen White + Us Against You by Frederik Backman New in July: + The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon (on sale July 31) + The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (on sale July 3) + The Late Bloomers' Club by Louise Miller (on sale July 17) + Clock Dance by Anne Tyler (on sale July 10) + A Double Life by Flynn Berry (on sale July 31) New in August: + The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis (on sale August 7) + Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (on sale August 14)

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0:00.0	I would like to address something.
0:04.0	Please do.
0:04.8	Something that was pointed out to me via email.
0:08.2	And Instagram.
0:10.2	Which I didn't know about until just a minute ago.
0:13.2	A couple weeks ago, we were talking about, what were we even talking about?
0:18.1	The Great American Read.
0:19.2	The Great American Read.
0:20.7	And there was a book on there that you said that you wanted to read that had always
0:25.3	been recommended to you.
0:26.9	And by the way, still extremely recommended.
0:30.5	I've never gotten so much feedback from an episode on a particular title, like telling
0:35.7	me you must read.
0:36.7	Interesting.
1:12.6	Rebecca. Rebecca by Daphne de Maur Yes. And I said, I don't want to read that because I hate the 18th century. Yes. It's pointed out to me several times now. That book is not from the 18th century. It's from the 20th century. Yes. I'm sorry I didn't correct you in person. That's okay. I think people forget that we're just like, we're just talking. Yeah. Well, and I was thinking of a completely different novel, Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson, because do you know how many books there are from the 18th century that's just a woman's first name? There are a lot. And I don't want to read any of them, Clarissa. That explains it all.
1:14.6	I can't believe I helped you set that up.
1:18.6	I am livid.
1:20.6	I am so mad about that joke.
1:23.6	No, you're not.
1:26.6	You are proud of yourself. I'm so proud. Ugh, disgusting. Anyway,
1:32.6	thank you for pointing out this factual error. We do everything live. We honestly don't prepare a
1:41.5	whole lot. What you hear is literally, like we have, I think I have a Post-it note sometimes that says, like, the titles we're going to talk about.
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