Episode 199 || November Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Thanksgiving is over, so it's the holiday season (the holiday season) and time to recap the books Annie read in November! + The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (on sale in January) + A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi + Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller + My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite + From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg 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	You know how I know it's wintertime?
0:05.1	How?
0:06.0	One, the Salvation Army bell is ringing in the background of this entire episode.
0:11.3	Do you think they'll be able to hear it?
0:12.7	I think so.
0:14.0	And like, I'm not currently listening through headphones like I probably should be, but I'm...
0:19.2	I'm confident that bad boys just going to
0:22.5	town in the background there.
0:24.0	Even Olivia, who has like infinite amounts of holiday spirit, the day the Salvation Army
0:31.0	started, she was furious, like inexplicably though, like meaning she, like my point being
0:36.5	Ashley and I know what to expect
0:37.8	Olivia doesn't so I was shocked at her very abrasive reaction but she very quickly
0:44.1	was like in New York that makes sense because you need to be able to hear the bell from far away
0:49.2	she's like in Thomasville you can hear that bell from all over and I was like oh well I've
0:54.0	never thought about that way.
0:54.9	And also nine people are going to walk by the sidewalk on a given weekday. Like, what are you really doing out there, man? And there's two of them. Two of them, yeah. Okay, that's a good use of resources. Yeah, there's two of them on the same block. That doesn't make any sense. Maybe on a Saturday. Yeah, on Saturday, you get a ton of foot traffic.
0:52.7	But today's Tuesday.
0:54.7	Yeah, and a Saturday. Yeah. On a Saturday, you get a ton of foot traffic.
1:12.0	But today's Tuesday.
1:14.0	Yeah, and a cold Tuesday.
1:15.5	Yeah.
1:16.3	I kind of feel sorry for them.
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