Episode 224 || Quick Reads

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Sometimes you need to build some momentum between your hefty tomes, and sometimes you're sitting in an airport and just want a book you can finish before the plane lands. In any case, Chris and Annie are here for you to recommend some one- or two-sitting reads. Ben Dolnick's New York Times article on the Binge Read is here. + We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson + If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin + The Pearl by John Steinbeck + The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway + The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald + State of the Union by Nick Hornby + The End We Start From by Megan Hunter + Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman + My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout + Our Souls at Night by Kent Harouf + We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie + Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie + Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill + Shopgirl by Steve Martin + The Vanderbeekersof 141st Street by Karina Glaser + The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall + The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley + Bloomability by Sharon Creech + Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli + Holes by Louis Sachar + Wonder by R. J. Palacio 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 do you care about the royal baby um a little bit do you care about his name is it archie is that
0:08.6	what i read it's archie okay it's archie bunker archie bunker mount batten windsor yes archie harrison
0:17.8	mountbatten windsor Here is my thing.
0:21.6	I think Archie's perfectly fine.
0:22.8	Sure.
0:23.6	I'm intrigued.
0:24.4	I think it's a nickname.
0:25.6	No, sir.
0:26.5	I mean, I think it should be a nickname for an actual name.
0:30.5	Yes, but it's not.
0:32.1	Right.
0:32.6	Which I find to be really interesting, but it's the 18th most popular name in Great Britain.
0:37.5	Interesting. Okay.
0:39.5	But here is my problem with it, and I've already made this clear.
0:43.9	That's a bold move for the son of a red-headed man.
0:48.7	And I don't know how jeans work, but if that child has red hair and his name is Archie,
0:53.8	she's an American. There is no reason she should not be his name is Archie, she's an American.
0:55.0	There is no reason she should not be familiar with the Archie comic strip.
0:59.2	I just don't understand why you're doing that.
1:01.7	Yeah, and especially with the popularity of Riverdale.
1:04.2	Yes, which has made Archie now reimagined in our minds.
1:08.6	And solidified him in the mainstream.
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