Episode 77 || Multi-Tasking and Reading in Multiples

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Annie and Chris deep dive into reading more than one book at any given time... And some book therapy ensues. They mention: + Commonwealth by Ann Patchett + The Trespasser by Tana French + The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth + Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin + Grit by Angela Duckworth + The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell + The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon Plus this article about millennials, this one about what Obama does at night, and... are you an abstainer or a moderator?

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0:00.0	Was there a new bachelor this week?
0:01.6	No, there was not.
0:02.5	Okay.
0:03.5	Which is maybe why my week felt so off.
0:06.0	The week has been...
0:07.8	I kept thinking...
0:09.8	I guess I'm a day behind.
0:11.4	Yeah.
0:13.3	My theory was that...
0:14.7	I mean, it was the 4th of July, obviously, so I know the real reason.
0:17.4	But my theory was that Jojo is going to send terrible veteran Alex home.
0:23.4	And ABC would face fines if they sent a veteran home on 4th of July.
0:27.7	Oh no. I think you could be on this okay. No, that's accurate. Because he's awful.
0:32.9	Because she's not going to keep him. No, he's the worst. Not just because he's short. That
0:37.1	doesn't bother me I'm glad he's
0:39.5	just terrible welcome to episode 77 of from the front porch a collection of conversations
0:46.2	on books small business and life in the South my name is Chris Jensen and I sell books
0:50.8	sometimes I'm Annie Jones and I'm sorry you go me me off every time. You change it every time. Exactly. It's the new gimmick. Oh my gosh. And that's, we're going to leave this. Okay. I'm Annie Jones. I'm the owner of the bookshelf and independent books that are in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. Today we are going to talk about reading many books at once.
1:11.6	Alright. That's it. That's what we're talking about today.
1:15.6	That is what we're talking about today. I do this a lot.
1:18.6	You read in, you read in multiples, that they say.
1:20.6	I have to read in multiples, yes.
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