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From the Front Porch

Episode 189 || Fall Literary Lineup

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Annie hosted Books and Brunch event in the shop last week and previewed some of her favorite coming releases of the fall season. This week, we're giving you an opportunity to get caught up!  Annie recommends: + Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller + Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver (on sale October 16--preorder here) + Gone So Long by Andre Dubus III (on sale October 2) + Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan (on sale October 2) + The Witch Elm by Tana French (on sale October 9) + I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel  + The Power of Love by Michael Curry (on sale October 30) + Gmorning Gnight by Lin Manuel Miranda (on sale October 23) + Becoming by Michelle Obama (on sale November 13) + Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty + A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl by Jean Thompson (on sale October 9) + Personality Brokers by Merve Emre + All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (on sale October 2) + Transcription by Kate Atkinson (on sale September 25) + Melmoth by Sarah Perry (on sale October 16) + Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy (on sale October 23) 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 brief interviews with not-so-hideous booksellers, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

Why don't you think social media algorithms are chronological anymore?

0:07.5

I just want to know if in the boardrooms or nap pods of Twitter and Facebook and Instagram,

0:17.7

surely this has come up. You can't be on those platforms for any period of time and not ask

0:23.5

yourself why are these not chronological are they doing it to mess with our heads right because

0:28.3

I remember from being on having been on Facebook for what 12 years now like something

0:34.8

crazy yeah um more than a third of my life.

0:41.3

It's gross.

0:43.3

I remember when they first started integrating the like popular posts as your feed or your timeline,

0:52.3

whatever they call it, I don't even remember, um, instead of just chronological. But they always gave you the option to click, like, show post chronologically. Yes, you could choose. That is still there. Oh, is it? But you have to manually click it every time. Oh, every day. You can't have it. So not even every day. Oh, every time you walk in. Every time you look at the homepage, you have to click, like, most recent. And I don't understand. And we are not alone in wanting this. No, no, no. The entire internet wants this. Yeah. Except advertisers, I think. Is that the issue? I think so.

1:29.0

I hadn't even thought about that.

1:29.7

I'm pretty sure.

1:31.1

Business brain didn't even think about that. All I think of is, first of all, as a small business owner, which lots of small

1:35.3

businesses utilize Instagram, but don't want to pay for the ads.

1:40.7

And, and Lynn, like, just as a consumer, I just want to see chronological. And this is what is so baffling to me. How come when I, like, briefly log on Instagram, like, a postal show and I'll be like, oh, I want to look at that next time I log on? Yeah, and then it refreshes, and then that post is gone, and you never see it again. And you never see it again. Yep. Why?

2:01.3

I don't know.

2:02.3

Meanwhile, yesterday, somebody I, like I purposely follow them, but they posted something and it was fine, but I didn't like it yet.

2:11.1

Not intentionally, just like it didn't happen.

2:13.9

So now I've seen that post.

2:16.1

I kid you not.

2:17.5

Every time I've logged in, it's at the top.

2:19.3

And I'm like, no, no, I've already seen this.

2:22.1

And I know you know that Instagram.

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