Episode 196 || Great American Read: Revisited

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Thanks to the efforts of PBS, we now have a definitive list of America's favorite books. Annie and Chris are now recapping and providing their commentary on the top picks of PBS's Great American Read. You can learn more about The Great American Read at PBS's website. Send your Mailbag questions to podcast [at] bookshelfthomasville [dot] com. America's top five picks were: + The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien + Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen + Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling + Outlander by Diana Gabaldon + To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 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 let's do something uncharacteristic a little bit and talk about how wonderful the weather is.
0:09.8	Guys, I could open my front door.
0:11.8	I could open my front door.
0:13.0	What a fantastic update.
0:14.1	I have on a scarf.
0:15.3	I wore a sweater yesterday.
0:17.8	It really is a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
0:20.3	It's so good. I mean, we're fluctuating a little bit here. Highs in the mid-70s to highs in the low 80s. Yeah. It gets warm again in the afternoon. I was going to say the afternoons are a little toasty. But when I leave my house, it's wonderful. It's so good. And the night time you can have the windows open.
0:38.3	We've had our front door open with our screen door.
0:41.3	Yeah.
0:42.3	I couldn't do that.
0:43.3	No.
0:44.3	I would have an escaped cat.
0:46.3	Yeah, it is, it finally is starting to feel like fall.
0:51.3	And I feel a little bit better because Nancy, one of our booksellers,
0:56.5	went to New York this past week. And I asked her, I said, oh, was it beautiful up there? Did it look
1:00.9	like fall? She said, well, actually, it was a little disappointing that the leaves haven't fully
1:05.0	changed because they had such a hot, wet summer that the leaves are changing, but they're only going to be up for a couple of, really, she said, days before. It was snowing last week. Yeah, I saw a picture from Vermont and I was like, oh, it is snowing while it is 80 degrees here. That's, ugh. Yeah, I don't know that I could handle snowing. Those are extremes extremes. Yeah. Like I don't know if I could do that.
1:28.3	Um, but right now, temperate, sunny, beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
1:34.3	You can eat outside.
1:35.3	You can.
1:36.3	You can eat outside.
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