Episode 225 || May Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

May came and went like a bullet train, but Annie and Chris are here to talk about what they read this month and/or are still reading. You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. Annie read: + City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (on sale June 4) + The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal + State of the Union by Nick Hornby + The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley + Fall and Rise by Mitchell Zuckoff + Miracle Creek by Angie Kim + Prayer: Forty Days of Practice by Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson Chris is reading: + The Thebaid by Statius, translated by Charles Stanley Ross + A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin 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 yeah, I'm done.
0:05.0	I'm done.
0:07.3	I texted you Monday.
0:10.1	Uh-huh.
0:11.0	And because I had seen Kelsey's Instagram post.
0:13.8	Right.
0:14.3	And I was like, congratulations.
0:16.0	And your response was so Enneagram for to me.
0:19.4	Because it was like, thanks. I don't know how I feel yet. Yeah.
0:23.6	Like, well, I think you should feel good. I still don't know how I feel. Well, I think you should
0:28.9	feel great. Yeah, I should feel great. And it's not that I don't. I just don't know what I feel yet.
0:35.2	Yeah. I still need to make a couple like little tiny revisions and like resubmit the manuscript the manuscript, then the graduate school has to, like, review it again and make sure that it's all, like, in order. But, like, I've done all the work. I passed with distinction. I, like, have now completed my doctoral degree. Maybe it's just the culmination of how How old are you? 29. So, what, 24 years of education? Yeah, I've been in college for 11 years. Yeah, it's a long time. Yeah. It's a long time. Yeah, it is. And it doesn't feel over. Yeah. And that's the thing. Like, I know this is it.
1:10.9	This is the last degree I'm getting. Yes. Inshallah. But, like, I don't know. I did talk to Kelsey recently about, like, I could do, like, a library degree. It's a one-year program. And if I'm here for another year, like, kind of, why not? And then I just have it. but I'm not going to do that.
1:08.5	I don't want to do that.
1:10.2	I really don't going to do that.
1:27.8	I don't want to do that. I really don't want to do that. You know that Twitter? Have you seen on Twitter where people are like, I don't know who needs to hear this right now, but... Don't go to graduate school? Yeah, and I wanted to be like, I don't know who needs to hear this right now, but you don't need that extra master's degree. I really don't.
1:25.0	No, I really, really don't.
1:27.7	And so thank you. Thank you. I've been too scared to tweet it. I've been too scared to tweet it lest I offend someone. No, well, here, I don't care about offending somebody right now. I don't know who needs to hear this, but don't go to graduate school. You don't need to. You don't need to. Uh, graduate school is a lie. I really kind of think it is. I absolutely think it is. Yeah. I mean, we'd stand on two opposite and, you know, like... Yeah, I've done it. I started and quit. Uh-huh. And I think you in a lot of ways made the right decision.
2:18.9	Well, we'll see.
2:19.9	We'll see.
2:20.7	Yeah, I mean, I can't...
2:21.4	Contact us in 20 years.
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