Episode 193 || Underappreciated

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It's award season, and some of our absolute favorites got robbed. As much as we are Professional Book People™️, we're not professional critics--and we're the first people to admit that the critics don't always know what they're talking about. Join us as we talk through some of those books. + Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro + Difficult Women by Roxane Gay + Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi + An American Marriage by Tayari Jones + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + Commonwealth by Ann Patchett + Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng + Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng + The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt + Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill + The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce + The End We Start From by Megan Hunter + Less by Andrew Sean Greer 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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0:00.0	So you survived this storm.
0:04.0	At the end of this year, I think I'm going to make a list of the things we survived in 2018.
0:11.0	Which, you know, I want to be careful about because there are people who did not survive.
0:15.0	Well, yeah.
0:16.0	And...
0:17.0	And total devastation.
0:19.0	Absolutely. On the coast, places that you and I both love.
0:22.7	Yeah, places I grew up going.
0:24.4	Right.
0:24.8	I had a dear friend whose grandmother totally lost her coastal home and went, and the only
0:31.6	thing she found where her house was was a base that she wanted.
0:34.8	Oh, man.
0:35.3	Yeah, like, it is.
0:36.9	So it's the most we are both until I moved to
0:42.0	Thomasville lifelong Floridians right it's the worst storm I've ever seen up close in person.
0:47.3	Yeah in 2004 the year of four hurricanes in like Florida. We were out of power for two weeks.
0:59.0	Which one of those? It was Ivan or Jean. Ivan was terrible, but I think too, there
1:05.2	are some obviously that hit different coasts.
1:07.0	One of those. It was Charlie Francis, Ivan, and Jean. I remember being out of power forever. I had to go back to school before our power was back. And they called like in the morning like, hey, we're having school today. And I was like, what? Why? I'm 14. Well, and I don't know if people understand. It's still, okay, and look, somebody posted, I understand we talk about weather all the time.
1:28.1	Yeah, no, we do. This is a weather podcast as far as I'm concerned.
1:31.3	But it is still really hot here. Yeah. Oh, mm-hmm. And so no air, and I imagine where you grew up
1:37.9	in South Florida, like no air at school is miserable. School had power. Oh, okay. That was actually kind of a relief at that time. But I don't know,
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