Episode 206 || Seasonal Reads: Fresh Start

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Believe it or not, we're only two weeks into the new year. It's a time when many of us make new resolutions and restart aspects of our lives with fresh eyes and a fresh heart. This week on the show, Chris and Annie talk about all the things "fresh start" might mean--and all the books to help yours. Also, as with last week, we accidentally recorded with a built-in laptop microphone, so please excuse our audio quality! Mentioned this week: + The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo + Cozy Minimalist Home by Miquillyn Smith + Calypso by David Sedaris + Bossypants by Tina Fey + Yes Please by Amy Poehler + Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling + Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling + This Will Only Hurt A Little by Busy Philipps + Becoming by Michelle Obama + Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell + Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett + This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel + Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng + Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss + What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vaderkam + Essentialism by Brene Brown + Lord of the Flies by William Golding + Hey Ladies by Caroline Moss and Michelle Markowitz + If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin If you're not already on board, check out Libro.fm for all your audiobook needs. 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 for christmas kelsey got me something that i've been wanting to do for years and so she did not get me
0:07.2	something but you know booked an experience and took me to the sea crest wolf preserve in chippley
0:15.4	florida it is about two hours west of tallahassee and what I would probably call the middle of nowhere,
0:22.8	but I'm sure the people who live there don't think so, and that's good.
0:28.6	And that's what happened.
0:31.2	What I want to know is, I saw pictures of this, wolves are just roaming around.
0:36.5	Yep.
0:37.1	And you're roaming around with them. Yep.
0:39.6	Did you ever feel in danger? No. It was incredible. They have 32 wolves on the property.
0:45.9	Okay. They are separated by fences into different packs. And so the packs don't really interact with
0:52.6	each other because I don't think it's what they do in the wild.
0:54.5	Okay.
0:54.9	It's on a large property.
0:56.1	I don't remember the acreage, but like it's big.
0:59.8	Okay.
1:00.1	So these animals are not like in a zoo.
1:03.2	But they do just kind of let you in.
1:05.7	And the wolves come up and smell you and wrestle with you if you are bald.
1:12.1	What I learned is that the wolves love bald men.
1:15.5	Okay.
1:16.2	And come up and just like rub themselves all over their heads.
1:19.3	Oh my gosh.
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