Episode 221 || April Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The changing of the calendar page signals that Annie and Chris are back, as they are every month, to talk about what they read in April! You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. + The Liar's Club by Mary Karr + The Body in Question by Jill Clement (on sale June 11) + Family of Origin by CJ Hauser (on sale July 16) + Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane (on sale May 28) + How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper (on sale May 28) + Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith + The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary + City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 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 a couple weeks ago, when we recorded, we were talking about the impending release of this, like, mysterious Taylor Swift property.
0:09.0	Yes.
0:10.7	It has now been released.
0:12.4	It is in the world.
0:13.4	It is in the world.
0:14.5	It's called me.
0:16.1	Exclamation point.
0:16.8	Exclamation point.
0:17.5	All caps, exclamation point.
0:18.8	Yes, me.
0:19.5	Me.
0:20.0	It's the most millennial song there ever was. Featuring Brendan Urey from Panic of the Disco, which when I learned that the night before, I was like, oh, that's exciting. Yeah, his voice just takes me right back to high school. Oh, yeah. Is what it does for me. And so we listened, before we talk about me, let's talk about that for a second. Like, we listened to Panic that just goes one song from the early 2000s. One, I did not realize he wrote that when he was 17 and that he was 18 when that song came out. Oh, he's younger than I thought I guess. He's in 1987. Oh, okay. Yeah So he really doesn't take me right back to high school. Right there in between us. Yeah. Um, also there are no lyrics in that song. It is just the chorus over and over and over and over and over. What song is this? I write sins, not tragedies. Oh yeah. Uhhuh. And so I think that's funny.
1:11.0	Yes. He, since then, I've Wikipediaed him because I did not know him by his name. So when I saw Brandon Yuri, I Googled that. Yeah. And saw Panic of the Disco, which Panic also has an exclamation point. Panic. Which makes me wonder if that's why me has an exclamation point. Maybe so. Um, but I, what has he been doing?
1:31.6	He's like the last standing member.
1:34.3	He's the last original member of Panic of the Disco, which apparently still is a band.
1:39.8	Mm-hmm.
1:40.3	But he's the last guy.
1:41.3	They have that one song that's on the radio.
1:43.0	High Hopes.
1:43.9	Yes. Which I think is catchy and radio. High Hopes. Yes.
1:44.7	Which I think is catchy and good.
1:46.2	Yes, fine.
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