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From the Front Porch

Episode 99 || Best Books of 2016

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It's time to reflect back on 2016, which means... It's time to recap Annie's favorite books of the year.  + The Mothers by Brit Bennett + Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead + Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel + Commonwealth by Ann Patchet + Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin + This Is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick + When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi + My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout + Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Yeung + You'll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein

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0:00.0

So I have something that I think we need to address.

0:02.4

Okay.

0:03.0

Bats.

0:04.6

The bats in our lives?

0:06.1

The bats in our lives.

0:07.3

Why do we have bats in our lives?

0:09.8

Why do we have bat stories?

0:11.8

Right.

0:12.1

So my bat story is like a month ago, I was driving home at night from Thomasville to Tallahassee

0:17.4

when a bat flew into my windshield and got stuck there and I had to pull over

0:25.1

and remove it from my windshield, which was terrible, like really traumatizing.

0:32.9

And I was like, I'm sorry.

0:36.4

I never wanted this for you. Also, you're not driving back late

0:41.0

from... No, it was like 6 p.m. It's just dark. Yeah, which makes it even weirder. I feel like

0:45.6

bats belong at midnight. Right. So I was trying to look up on the internet like what kind of bat

0:50.0

was this and I thought it might have been an evening bat, which are bats that come out,

0:57.4

as the name suggests, in the evening, rather than late at night.

1:02.5

But I don't know because, you know, I didn't get a great look at it.

1:03.9

I was trying not to look at it. You didn't examine it.

1:05.1

Now, there were bits.

1:07.7

But then the story continues because last week, as I was driving home, the same thing happened,

1:15.3

except this time it, you know, didn't stick.

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