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From the Front Porch

Episode 222 || Seasonal Reads: Wedding Season

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It's wedding season, y'all, and Annie and Chris are here to guide you through the most relevant reads of the season. You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. + Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead + Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen + Save the Date by Morgan Matson + Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld + The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory + Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun + The Gown by Jennifer Robson + Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close + Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner + Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry + The Arrangement by Sarah Dunn + Standard Deviation by Katharine Heiny + Committed 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

You ran a little late today.

0:02.1

Yeah.

0:02.7

No, I was a few minutes late because I did a thing that I've done before.

0:07.6

I want you to explain it for the crowd.

0:09.1

This is my version of public shaming.

0:11.1

Okay.

0:11.5

I want you to explain to the listeners what you have done now three times.

0:18.1

Yeah.

0:19.0

Yeah.

0:19.4

Go ahead.

0:19.8

I'm twice in my late 20s and once as a teenager.

0:26.2

But my stomach finds very strong black tea to be poison.

0:38.9

But you should know this.

0:40.6

I do know this.

0:42.3

I didn't make coffee this morning,

0:44.8

and I just made a cup of tea instead,

0:47.8

and I left it to steep for too long.

0:51.7

We all, Lucy and Olivia and I were all like,

0:53.8

there's a timer on your microwave, man.

0:56.9

Yeah, but the thing is, I poured the boiling water into the cup over the ball, the

1:02.8

infuser ball, and then I put the mug or the cup on my nightstand while I did other things.

1:14.2

And then I sat in bed and I drank my tea and first it was good. And then right before I left at 10, I like downed the last little bit of it

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