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From the Front Porch

Episode 93 || October Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Annie chats with Chris about the books she read in October:  + Today Will Be Different + Dark Matter + In the Garden of Small Beginnings + Juniper (listen to this Radiolab episode for more on this story) + The Children + Who Killed These Girls? (here's the Reply All episode Chris mentioned)  ** Shop these titles on The Bookshelf website here. ** Other titles mentioned include:  + Where'd You Go, Bernadette + Leave Me + The Martian + Before the Fall + Kitchens of the Great Midwest + Visit from the Goon Squad + Seating Arrangements + The Nest + Commonwealth + The Children's Crusade   Annie mentioned how she finds book recommendations on Instagram through Shauna Niequist and Elise Blaha Cripe.

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So yesterday I went to get my oil changed.

0:05.0

And I had...

0:06.0

Well, I do it regularly.

0:09.0

In fact, I was complimented by the mechanic for being so regular about my car maintenance.

0:15.0

But that's the end of this story.

0:19.0

Uh-oh.

0:20.0

So I had a coupon for a free tire rotation with an oil change.

0:25.0

And I thought, yes, that is the thing that I need.

0:27.2

And so I went to the place and I was like, hello, I had this coupon for a free tire rotation

0:31.6

with an oil change.

0:32.9

And they're like, yep, great, cool.

0:35.4

And so they put my car up on the thing so they could take the tires off. And they came back inside and they were like, okay, so also we want to replace your front brakes. And I was like, okay. And they're like, here, let us show you. And they did. And I was like, yes, you're right. These probably need to be replaced. And so we replaced them. Okay, great, cool.

0:54.8

Okay.

0:56.3

An hour and 45 minutes later, I was allowed to leave.

1:01.4

And I got in my car and realized that they had not actually changed my oil.

1:05.6

They just rotated my tires and replaced the brakes.

1:08.8

So.

1:09.0

And at this point, I was like, I don't feel like staying at this place any longer.

1:15.5

And so I drove away to another place to get my oil change.

1:21.0

You went to another place to get your, just so that you wouldn't have to go back to the same place.

1:26.3

Exactly.

1:27.3

I feel like that's your personality in a nutshell. It really is. It's my whole life. Yep. And then the mechanic was like, wow, you are really good at this. And I was like, well, it's a 2003 car and I don't want to die on the side of the road. So I get my maintenance done regularly. High five for old cars.

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