Episode 226 || Seasonal Reads: Summer

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Suuummertiiiiiime, and the front doors are swoooollen. Join Chris and Annie for a preview of the summer's hottest releases and a look back to some of our favorite backlist beach reads. Some other "best of" lists we mentioned: + Good Housekeeping+ Modern Mrs. Darcy You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. New in 2019: + City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert + Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane + The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead + Family of Origin by CJ Hauser + Stars of Alabama by Shawn Dietrich + The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal + The Queen by Josh Levin Backlist: + Dark Matter by Blake Crouch + Recursion by Blake Crouch + Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel + You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein + Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford + Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng + The Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor + The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer + Limelight by Amy Poppel + Tomorrow There Will Be Sun by Dana Reinhardt + Girl in the Water by Paula Hawkins + Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather Lende + Hello Sunshine by Laura Dave + Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid + My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite 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 this week saw the end of two beloved HBO shows, Game of Thrones, obviously, and
0:07.0	Veep.
0:08.0	Veep is my preferred.
0:09.2	You watched Veep?
0:09.9	I watched Game of Thrones.
0:11.2	I'm two seasons behind on Veep.
0:13.0	I really like Veep and I just need to catch up.
0:15.1	We were very behind, we were two or three seasons behind one week ago.
0:25.1	And now we are, or two weeks ago, and now we are all done. Well, and for me, like, Kelsey watched season eight of Game of Thrones
0:29.9	with me week to week. Was eight the previous? This, this season that just ended. Okay. Had not seen
0:34.9	the show previously. Okay. And so she watched all of season eight and was interested enough just in that. Okay. That I have now gotten her to go back and we watched seasons one and two in the past like six days. Okay. So I get it. Okay. Good. Yeah. Did she understand what was happening in? To a point. Okay. But like she's getting there now having seen the first two seasons.
0:39.1	Game of Thrones, no one is shocked, is something I have zero interest in. Yeah, of course. And it's not for you. And no. And look, part of adulting is realizing I don't feel left out in the least. That show is not for me. Nope. And that's okay. Let me be clear.
1:12.2	Veep is for me.
1:13.8	Sometimes it is a lot.
1:14.4	Oh, yeah. I would just like to say.
1:15.7	Like sometimes it is a bit much.
1:17.4	So this is not my like endorsement if like my mom is listening.
1:21.6	But like Veep is for her.
1:23.3	No.
1:24.7	Susie, please don't watch Veep.
1:26.4	But I love Julie Louis Dreyfus, and I love Tony Hale so much.
1:35.2	I love Tony Hale so much.
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