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From the Front Porch

Episode 228 || #TackleSomeTomes

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Listen. We've all seen the summer reading guides. We here at FtFP have even given you one. Beach, breezy, light, and fun. But what if I told you there was another option? You know, for those of you who don't live anywhere near a beach. You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. + City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert + Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace + The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert + Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver + The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky + The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor + Little Women by Louisa May Alcott + The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt + The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge + Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke + A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara + The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach + Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow + The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco + The Witch Elm by Tana French + Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 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

We have not talked

0:02.9

Since I mentioned New York

0:04.4

Not really

0:05.0

Yeah, not really

0:05.8

We were together for the reader retreat

0:08.5

Yeah

0:08.9

And for our live show

0:10.5

But that felt different

0:11.8

That was totally different

0:13.0

That was like us chatting

0:14.2

For the show

0:15.5

And not just chatting

0:16.5

Right

0:16.9

So yeah we have a lot to catch up on

0:19.0

There's so much to catch up on

0:19.9

Although somebody did ask me How New York was yesterday, and I was like, when did I go there? Because there's too much happening. I don't know if you know this, but this weekend is my brother's wedding. There's like a lot happening. I did know that. So, but I did want to tell you, because I think you'll get a kick out of this. So Jordan and I were in line for Hamilton, which was very exciting.

0:42.7

We decided to go while we were in New York after kind of months of not being able to get tickets to Atlanta or Jacksonville or Orlando.

0:52.3

And finally just being like, we're going to be in New York. We're never in New New York let's just do it yeah so we're in line we're talking to people behind us

0:58.3

and then I feel like I've told you this story before but I haven't so but then this group of probably

1:05.0

six or eight women is standing in front of us and all of a sudden one of them goes oh my gosh it's annie b jones oh no and jordan's face and it was this

1:17.1

delightful woman who i am pretty sure it's now two weeks removed but i believe her name is Tammy she is a

1:22.4

podcast listener great and it was bonkers that is bon bonkers. It is one thing.

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