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From the Front Porch

Episode 190 || September Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It's time for our regular jaunt through the books we finished this month. Join us for the recap! Also, and very importantly: teenage penguins. + Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller + Fear by Bob Woodward + Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman + A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl by Jean Thompson (on sale October 9) + The Wondering Years by Knox McCoy + A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti + Property of the Rebel Librarian by Allison Varnes + I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott (on sale April 2, 2019) 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 Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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Have you ever seen teenage penguins?

0:04.0

No.

0:05.0

I know it's a weird question. Let me show you this.

0:08.0

Is there a difference between like a regular penguin or a teenage penguin?

0:12.0

Yes.

0:13.0

Okay.

0:14.0

Because like, child penguins have all this like brown fur feathers on them.

0:18.0

And then when they're teenagers, it like falls off in patches and so they look

0:22.3

bizarre and they're like half regular penguin but then with all these like weird puberty is hard for

0:28.5

everyone he's like oh my god and there's so many amazing pictures if you just google teenage penguin

0:37.3

there are so many hilarious pictures. Look at this one.

0:40.3

He was just so angry about all this hair.

0:43.3

I was about to say, wouldn't you be?

0:45.3

Yeah. Yeah. Where is my favorite picture though?

0:48.3

This moody, angsty guy is my favorite.

0:50.3

I love him. I love him. There is another one somewhere down here. I looked at hundreds of

0:55.2

these last night. As one does. What made you think of this? I saw a random tweet that was like a video of

1:02.8

like this like brown furred penguin and I know it's not actually fur, but it looks like fur. Yes.

1:09.7

Following around an adult penguin and I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait

1:12.9

a minute, is that what adolescent penguins look like?

1:15.1

And so I googled it.

1:16.3

I googled teenage penguin because that is a much better phrase.

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