Episode 236 || Backlist Book Club, Vol. 4

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Annie and frequent guest contributor Hunter keep the Backlist Book Club feature rolling with a discussion of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch, soon to be a major motion picture. Follow Hunter and his own Backlist Book Club here. 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	let's talk little women so you've okay i just watched the trailer like about an hour or two ago me
0:06.2	too cried yeah like tell me what you think of the cast okay i was always on board for surcia
0:13.2	yes always in forever mm-hmm had questions about emma watson as meg but you know what here for
0:19.9	it yes here for it who Yes. Here for it.
0:21.4	Who is the young woman who's playing Beth?
0:23.4	She's been on something else. I recognize her face. Wait, Beth. Is that the one who... Yeah. Okay. She... That's Sharp Objects. Thank you. Which... Oh my gosh. Let me just go... Maybe I should just go back and rewatch Sharp Objects.
0:18.1	So good.
0:18.5	That show was perfect.
0:19.4	Yes.
0:19.7	That was perfect.
0:20.3	Did it win things?
0:21.2	It should have won things.
0:21.9	It was nominated for it, but like, it's, My gosh, let me just go. Maybe I should just go back and rewatch Sharp Objects. So good. That show was perfect. Yes.
0:37.5	That was perfect.
0:38.2	Did it win things?
0:39.0	It should have won things.
0:39.5	It was nominated for it, but like, Amy Adams is my queen.
0:43.1	Anyway, okay, so that's where I recognize her from. Okay, my big, and this is my people on the internet, like one of the women I love, posted and she was like, how do we feel about Timothy?
0:42.9	Because most of us grew up with Christian Bale.
0:45.1	Yes. I don't want to speak too soon, but I think I'm here for Timothy. I'm here, like, okay. I think I'll be okay. I'm here for him. Like, listen, I saw call me by your name. Like, I'm here for him, like today, yesterday, tomorrow. Forever. Forever. Um, I do have, like, a quick little game I want to play. Okay. Okay. So let's say that Disney decided to make, um, to decide to make little women back in, like, 2004. Okay. Okay. And here's, and the four reigning queens, we can interchange some of these, but the four reigning queens at the time were Hillary Duff. Okay. Raven Simone. Okay. Okay. And here's, and the four reigning queens, we can interchange some of these, but the four reigning
1:27.9	queens at the time were Hillary Duff. Okay. Raven Simone. Okay. Uh, Christy Carlson Romano from Even Stevens. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And Lindsay Lou Han. Okay. Who would you cast as who? Okay. This is fun. Um, wait a minute. List. Okay, that Romano girl, even Stevens, she's Meg.
1:26.8	Yes.
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