323 || Nostalgia Reading

This week the co-hosts of The Bookshelf’s I Want It That YA book club, Lucy Stoltzfus, also The Bookshelf's online sales coordinator and Olivia Schaffer, shop manager, join Annie to discuss nostalgia reading.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase at The Bookshelf:

• Thwonk by Joan Bauer

• 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers

• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

• Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

• All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

• The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

• Anastasia's Chosen Career by Lois Lowry

• DRAT! We're Rats by Jahnna N. Malcolm

• The Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin

• Bloomability by Sharon Creech

• Baby-Stitting Is a Dangerous Job by Willo Davis Roberts

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

This week, Annie is reading Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby. Olivia is reading Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger, and Lucy is reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. 

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