Episode 212 || February Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

February is the shortest month of the year, and it really felt like it this time around! Join Annie and Chris as they discuss what they were able to read this month--because they were some really good ones. You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. Annie read: + Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (on sale July 16) + Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (on sale March 5) + Tomorrow There Will Be Sun by Dana Reinhardt (on sale March 5) + If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin + Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey (on sale June 11) + Dopesick by Beth Macy Chris read: + Multiple Man by Matthew Rosenberg and Andy MacDonald 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 I'm applying for a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Iceland oh fancy I know
0:09.3	and you'd be so worldly I would be yeah I would be just cosmopolitan yeah you'd be one of those
0:16.3	global I don't know you'd global. I'd just be global.
0:21.6	I can totally see you making it over there.
0:26.6	Yeah, it's a two-year...
0:27.6	You're pale.
0:28.6	I'm Danish.
0:30.6	Those are related people groups.
0:32.6	Yeah, you're pale with blue eyes.
0:34.6	On the application, they list, they ask, like, how much Icelandic do you know? And I said, none. And they're like, how much Danish do you know? And I was like, also none. But this position, like, it's at the University of Iceland, but it's not a teaching position. It's all research. And like... Would you have to research in ice-landish? No. No, I don don't think so because it's all about medieval it.
0:57.0	And so I think it would just be the languages I already know.
1:00.0	Okay.
1:01.0	And I'm just communicating with other researchers about this.
1:03.0	Okay.
1:04.0	Why do I need to be in Iceland to do it?
1:05.0	Unclear, but perk.
1:07.0	Yeah, I would think that qualifies as a perk.
1:09.0	Yeah.
1:10.0	Um, what would this mean forifies as a perk. Yeah.
1:29.1	What would this mean for your life? You would move to ice. I would move to Reykjavik for two years, yeah. I mean, at least you can pronounce it. Yeah, that's true. I've always struggled with that. So good job. It's hard to spell. It is. I don't remember how to spell it. There's a Y and a J. Yes, and a couple of Ks. Yeah. It's like,
1:34.7	I don't, we don't need to just spell it. Um, but then like obviously I've read about the like climate of Iceland because we only ever talk about weather. Right. We're a weather podcast.
1:39.6	And like what if I'm just imagining like us, skyping an episode of front porch. And I'm just like, the weather in Iceland is the same as it always is. I'm just imagining like us skyping an episode of the front porch and I'm just like
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