Episode 84 || August Reading Recap (aka The Power of Oprah)

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Behold, the power of Oprah. Annie and Chris chat about the books Annie read in August, including Oprah's book club book, The Underground Railroad. The rest of Annie's list: + Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill + The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead + You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott + The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close + The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer + Before the Fall by Noah Hawley + Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge And other books Annie and Chris mentioned: + Fates & Furies + Crossing to Safety + Pond + The Royal We + Station Eleven + Everything I Never Told You + Reconstructing Amelia + Prep + Ghettoside

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0:00.0	So today is the first day of class.
0:01.8	Today is the first day of class. I teach it 345 and I wrote my syllabus yesterday because I thought I wrote it months ago, opened my document to format it, and then discovered that I had not written any of it. Oh, not stressful at all. No, no. But it looked beautiful. It is. It's great. I at least made a template a couple months ago and found that. So I could work with that. So I can come to this class?
0:02.1	You can. It's great. I at least made a template a couple months ago and found that. So I could work with that.
0:22.5	So I can come to this class? You can. That's legal? Well.
0:28.9	Great. That I don't know.
0:32.2	How many people are in your class?
0:33.7	32.
0:34.6	Okay. I did not want to come to a class where there were like 10 people.
0:37.7	I thought I will stick out like a sort of.
0:39.4	It's 32 EWM majors, editing, writing, media.
0:43.6	Oh, okay.
0:44.6	My peeps.
0:46.2	Sorry, I'm never going to say my peeps again.
0:49.1	Well.
0:49.6	Well.
0:52.4	Welcome to episode 84 of From Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:58.9	I'm Chris Jensen, and I made too much cake last night.
1:01.8	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
1:06.9	We are recording an August reading recap today.
1:09.5	Hooray! And the location is different.
1:11.9	The location is different. We're recording at my house because I have to go to work
1:16.2	teaching in a couple hours and cannot drive to Thomasville.
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