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From the Front Porch

Episode 210 || Oscar Season Reading Recs

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Book-to-Movie Nominations + Boy Erased by Garrard Conley + Beautiful Boy by David Sheff + First Man by James R. Hansen + Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel + If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin + My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg + Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan + The Wife by Meg Wolitzer Our Recs Based on Best Picture If you liked Black Panther, try: + Black Panther, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates + Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James If you liked BlacKkKlansman or Green Book, try: + Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth + Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi If you liked Bohemian Rhapsody or A Star is Born, try: + Moonage Daydream by Davie Bowie + Just Kids by Patti Smith + Life by Keith Richards + Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid If you liked The Favourite, try: + The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory + The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland If you liked Vice, try: + Sisters First by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush + Days of Fire by Peter Baker 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 we have a lot of feedback um on the weighted blankets question we're a book podcast but probably

0:08.5

the most feedback we have ever received ever is about weighted blankets yeah and like i'm so

0:14.1

grateful for that it was honestly incredible i do appreciate it um i also wouldn't hate if a weighted blanket company was like, hey, let's do ads on this

0:25.6

book podcast because apparently readers love weighted blankets, love them some weighted blankets.

0:30.6

With one very notable exception.

0:32.7

Okay.

0:33.1

I did get one very negative review of weighted blankets.

0:36.1

Okay.

0:36.8

Among the sea of like, get one now!

0:40.8

Which I thought was very interesting, and I'm so deeply appreciative for the lone voice

0:46.5

of dissent.

0:47.3

Okay.

0:47.7

Tell me what you heard, because I mostly heard, I monitored our Instagram.

0:52.6

Right.

0:52.8

I think you monitored email.

0:54.2

Which is how I asked for submissions.

0:56.9

Yes. I posted about it.

0:58.5

Oh, okay. I didn't see that. I posted an Instagram story on the bookshelf.

1:02.0

Oh, okay.

1:02.8

And it was like a, you know, one of those questions you can ask.

1:07.0

That makes things easy.

1:08.2

Yes. So I did that and then people emailed you.

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