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From the Front Porch

Episode 246 || Seasonal Reads: Spooky Season

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It's officially Spooky Season, if you can believe it, and Annie and Chris sound absolutely manic this week as they record their third episode in a row to bring you some of their favorite books of the season! You can find all of the following books for sale (or preorder) in The Bookshelf's online store. + The Remaking by Clay McLeod Chapman + A House of Ghosts by W. C. Ryan + The Secret Place by Tana French + The Witch Elm by Tana French + Dare Me by Megan Abbott + The Fever by Megan Abbott + The Crucible by Arthur Miller + Final Girls by Riley Sager + The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager + The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz + The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack + The Winters by Lisa Gabriele + The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry + Melmoth by Sarah Perry + Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse + We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson + The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 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 Annie's author interviews, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0

I don't know why hit record. I don't know what we're supposed to be talking about in this cold open. We're just rushing to get through this one. There's so much to do. Why do Tuesdays, honestly, Tuesdays feel manic to me. Like, I can't handle it. Oh, absolutely. The mania, I cannot. I bounce from one thing to another. And when I get home, I'm like, what did I do today? Yeah, no. I think I talked to Chris for four hours.

0:01.9

I got up this morning. cannot. It's, I bounce from one thing to another and when I get home, I'm like, what did I do

0:21.0

today? Yeah, no. I think I talked to Chris for four hours. I got up this morning and I was like

0:26.6

laying in bed drinking my coffee and just like waking up essentially. And I did that for too long.

0:33.7

And then it was 9.30. And I was like, I have to go to the bookshelf in like 40 minutes and I had just completely forgotten that I needed to do that. And then I'm like rushing to like do all the things that I need to do before I have to leave. So I was five minutes late. But I still got here mostly on time. I was very impressed. And I didn't speed. There were cops everywhere this morning. Oh yeah. Elon's gotten a ticket before. I've gotten a ticket once on my way to the bookshop, and it was in 2015. It was a long time ago. And have not since, because I know where the speed zones are. But I saw three different people pulled over on my way to Thomasville this morning. Oh, wow. Yeah. Two by motorcycles, and then one regular car. Yikes. Yeah. On October 1st. They're not even trying to meet their car. No. It was all once I crossed into Georgia. Maybe they thought it was September 31st because I've been there. We've all been there. Oh, goodness. One of my friends made a, I don't even want to talk about what the

1:29.5

post was, it was a very sad post, but mentioned a date in her Instagram caption that was

1:34.6

August 32nd. And it was clearly a typo, but I was also just like, oh dear. But now I'm making a joke

1:42.2

about this sad house. And here we are. But I'm making a joke about this sad. Yeah.

1:45.2

And here we are.

1:45.9

But I've been there.

1:40.3

We've all been there. Dates are hard to keep track of. They are. I literally have to sing the song to myself. Or the poem, right? 30 days, half September, April, June, and November. All the rest of 31. Except February. Me. Right. Just 28. You.

1:44.3

But I mean just days of the week sometimes.

1:45.8

Oh, for sure.

2:02.4

Well, because like, me, she's 28. You. But I mean just days of the week sometimes.

2:03.9

Oh, for sure.

2:11.7

Well, because like your schedule is mostly regular, but irregular for most people where your days off are Sunday, Monday.

2:12.1

Right.

2:13.9

It's very confusing to me as a person.

2:14.3

Right.

2:15.1

Still. So you're like a day skewed from the rest of the working world.

2:19.5

I'm a teacher at a university, which means I don't work every day. Yeah. I work on Monday and

2:24.9

Wednesday. Work here every other Tuesday. Thursday and Friday are usually the days that I'm

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