Episode 71 || May Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Chris asks Annie about the books she read in May, including: + Brighton by Michael Harvey (releases June 14) + Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam (releases June 7) + A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman + Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld + The Girls by Emma Cline (releases June 14) + Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson (releases September 13) + Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty (releases July 26) + The Mothers by Britt Bennett (releases October 11) Also mentioned: + Defending Jacob + Everybody Rise + Britt-Marie Was Here + American Girls + The Dollhouse + We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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0:00.0	Are we supposed to be recording something funny right now?
0:05.5	Uh, yeah.
0:09.7	Is that it?
0:15.7	Welcome to episode 71 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business,
0:21.5	and life in the South. I'm Chris Jensen, a PhD student at Fort State University, and a bookseller
0:26.4	at The Bookshelf. And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in
0:31.2	beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. Today, we are going to recap the books that I read in May.
0:37.7	May reading recap.
0:39.4	So here we go.
0:40.9	Here they are.
0:42.3	So the first is Brighton.
0:44.8	And when I think of Brighton, I think of the son on the nanny.
0:49.9	Because that was that character's name.
0:52.4	You're right.
0:53.3	I...
0:53.5	Brighton Sheffield. Oh my gosh. I think of those ugly purses women carry. Oh, wait, was that harsh? No. Oh, okay. Sorry. We're going to keep that in. Sorry. It's not a Birken bag. I'll tell you that. Oh, Rory. Yeah, that's where I am in Gomerg girls right now.
1:11.9	Oh, gosh, those are expensive.
1:13.5	Yeah.
1:14.2	But that is not what this book is about.
1:15.6	No, this is Brighton by Michael Harvey.
1:17.4	I read this book in ARC format.
1:21.9	Publisher sent it to me wanting me to read it over like a weekend because Indy Next reviews were due.
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