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From the Front Porch

Episode 92 || By the Book with Annie and Chris

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

If you're new to From the Front Porch, this episode will introduce you to hosts Annie and Chris. Learn about their reading tastes, what they do when their not at The Bookshelf, and who they'd have over for their dream literary dinner party.  (The interview was inspired by the New York Times' By the Book interviews. Gretchen Rubin's is here.)  Books and authors mentioned include:  + Station Eleven + My Brilliant Friend + Present Over Perfect + Pond + Boss Life + Grit + Neil Gaiman + Mindy Kaling + F. Scott Fitzgerald + Umberto Ecco + Hannah Arendt + Flannery O'Connor + Madeleine L'Engle + J.K. Rowling + Shauna Niequist + Swing Time + The Martian + Bread and Wine + The Mothers + Another Day in the Death of America + The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao   Find The Bookshelf online here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, I'm ready.

0:01.8

All right, I'm pouring this coffee.

0:03.4

Okay.

0:04.7

Have we been recording?

0:05.9

Oh, no.

0:06.5

Yes.

0:07.5

Okay, good.

0:10.5

Can you hear lawn noise?

0:13.1

No.

0:13.8

Okay.

0:15.2

No matter where I go in my house, there is yard noise.

0:20.4

Not from my own lawn work in case there was confusion there.

0:25.7

Not from my lawn guys.

0:30.0

Yes, the multitude of lawn men that you employ.

0:34.7

That's right.

0:36.5

It's just the bookshelf employees, like, with lawnmowers.

0:40.2

Now that's an idea.

0:41.3

Outside.

0:42.4

That's a good idea.

0:44.4

One time I was out, I was walking to my car, and this lawn guy from another yard came up, and he was like, don't you want your sidewalk edged?

0:53.2

And I said, yes, by my husband. Bye. Thanks. See ya.

1:01.8

Welcome to episode 92 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books,

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