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From the Front Porch

Episode 231 || June Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Annie and Chris are traveling through time to bring you a list and discussion of the books they read in June.  You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. Annie read: + Burnout by Emily an Amelia Nagoski  + Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston + The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren + Heartburn by Nora Ephron + Recursion by Blake Crouch + Furious Hours by Casey Cep + Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid + The Body Lies by Jo Baker + My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan + 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Chris read: + A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin + Family of Origin by CJ Hauser 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 I haven't seen you in a couple weeks, three weeks, a month of Sundays.

0:06.2

Many Sundays, any given Sunday.

0:08.2

Any given Sunday.

0:09.4

I don't, I've never, I've never seen that movie.

0:11.4

Oh, I thought it was a band.

0:14.2

No, it's a movie about football.

0:17.4

Yeah, you're right, but there's a band called, is it every day Sunday?

0:21.5

Taking Back Sunday. Taking Back Sunday. Yeah. I've never listened to that band. I don't know what they sound like. Do I feel maybe like they're punk? Yeah, that sounds right. I feel like I did listen to them. I imagine that they sound like nickel back. Oh, I don't know. I went through a punk phase. Sure. as one does

0:18.1

like the reliant

0:19.0

K-style punk

0:19.8

yeah but some others too. It was just popular of that time. Like the yellow card. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, there's that. That conversation took a turn. I mean, let's just be real here. We've been having some technical difficulties.

0:54.5

We've recorded this intro three times. This is our third time. It's fine. And this time we're going to do it. So I want to ask you about your brother's wedding. Yes. One of the many things that has happened to me in the last few weeks is I went to my brother's wedding. Yeah. And congratulations. That's really cool. It was delightful.

0:51.3

I, no one really prepared me.

0:53.9

My brother is my only

1:14.0

sibling. And no one fully prepared me for the emotional rigor. Oh yeah. Only siblings wedding.

1:21.1

Especially when you're both adults. Well, and especially, you guys are close. Yes. But I think I thought,

1:25.7

well, we're both adults here it didn't matter no that

1:29.1

doesn't matter at all it didn't matter at all um it was beautiful um i cried a couple times good

1:37.0

kept it together though i kept you know what i kept it together the whole day of until i saw my parents

1:43.5

so all the bridesmaids were like lined up and my parents

1:47.4

my brother was walking my mom down with my dad behind him and they were lined up and I started to

1:53.6

weep there it is and I was weeping partly because I was envious because like it was the three of them

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