From the Front Porch

Episode 351 || Holiday Kids‘ Table

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie sits down with her cousin Ashley and her brother Chet to talk about what they’re reading, watching, listening to, and buying this season.

Annie’s List / Reading

• Bright Evening Star by Madeleine L'Engle (not available)

• Picking Cotton by Erin Torneo, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, and Ronald Cotton

• These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

Annie’s List Watching

• Merry Kissmas

• The Holidate

• Very Merry Bridesmaid

• 8-Bit Christmas

• Love Hard

Annie’s List/ Listening to

• Emily P. Freeman's The Quiet Collection (podcast)

• Finishing up The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill (podcast)

• Red (Taylor’s Version)

Chet’s List/Reading

• Robert Bly, Iron John: A Book About Men (not available through The Bookshelf)

• Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians (not available)

• A.P. U.S. Government and Politics material

Chet’s List / Watching

• Seinfeld

• Survivor

• Great British Baking Show

Chet’s List / Listening

• Wolves in the Throne Room, Diadem of 12 Stars

• Deafheaven, Sunbather

• Page CXVI, Advent to Christmas

Ashley’s List / Reading

• Hooked by Sutton Foster

• No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler

Ashley’s List / Watching

• One Tree Hill

• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Ashley’s List/ Listening to

• Red (Taylor’s Version)

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 Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading Golden Boys by Phil Stamper. Ashley is reading Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray. Chet is reading Iron John by Robert Bly.

If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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Episode 350 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 12

Welcome to From the Front Porch! Annie is back to answer more of your literary dilemmas in another episode of Literary Therapy.

Before we get started, this is your friendly reminder that From the Front Porch is a production of The Bookshelf, an indie bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia. We’re in the throes of our second holiday shopping season held during a pandemic, and remarkably, our spirits are high. As you support indies like ours this holiday season, please remember to shop early, to be open to our suggestions when your first book preference might already be back-ordered, and to trust our deadlines.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf

• The Ensemble by Aja Gable (not available)

• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

• A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza (back-ordered)

• Becoming by Michelle Obama

• I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by Susan Cerulean

• Matrix by Lauren Groff

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

• Unread Shelf Website

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 Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading These Precious Days by Ann Patchett.

If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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Bonus: Dressember with RuthAnn Deveney

In this bonus episode of From the Front Porch, Annie is talking with her friend RuthAnnDeveney, an avid reader and advocate for the Dressember Foundation.

Below you can find links to the resources RuthAnn mentioned in the episode:

Links

• Dressember website

• Beneficiary programs through Dressember grants (click through to each pillar)

• RuthAnn’s fundraising page

• RuthAnn’s team page (click "Join Team" to join)

• On Instagram

Book recommendations (To purchase through The Bookshelf, go here)

• The Locust Effect by Gary Haugen

• The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

• Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

• The Invisible Boy by Alyssa Hollingsworth

• They are all included in my top 9 recommendations about human trafficking (which you can win in a giveaway for generous donors, $100 = 1 entry)

Articles

• She Survived Sex Trafficking. Now She Wants to Show Other Women a Way Out

• Climate crisis leaving ‘millions at risk of trafficking and slavery from The Guardian

• Typology of Modern Slavery from the Polaris Project

Podcasts/TED talks

• Podcast roundup from the Dressember blog

• Sold in America (not suitable for young listeners)

• Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works

• Modern slavery, hidden in plain sight

Documentaries

• Documentary roundup from the Dressember blog

• Dressember documentary (just released!)

• The True Cost

• Short film about cybersex trafficking, produced by International Justice Mission

• A short film about forced labor trafficking in Ghana, produced by International Justice Mission

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 below.

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

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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Episode 349 || Best Books of the Year

December is a great time to look back on your reading year. In this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie, Lucy, and Olivia are talking about their favorite books of 2021.

The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

Annie’s List

• Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

• Matrix by Lauren Groff

• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

• Brood by Jackie Polzin

• Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

• Bewilderment by Richard Powers

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley

• Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

• My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Lucy’s List

• A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

• Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace

• The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness by Gregory Boyle

• Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

• Zorrie by Laird Hunt (back-ordered)

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

• The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits

• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

• A Ghost in the Throat by Dioreann Ní Ghríofa (not available)

Olivia’s List

• Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

• Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better by Benjamin Wood

• Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

• Pony by R.J. Palacio

• Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

• The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker

• Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

• The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams by Mindy Thompson

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 Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading Anastasia’s Chosen Career by Lois Lowry. (not available) Lucy is reading Every Good Boy Does Fine by Jeremy Denk. Olivia is reading The Maid by Nita Prose.

If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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Episode 348 || November Reading Recap

This week, Annie is recapping the books she read in November. Whether you’re listening while you prep your favorite side dish or in the middle of a post-meal food coma, we’re glad you’re here.

Don’t forget: From the Front Porch is a production of The Bookshelf, an indie bookstore in South Georgia, and this weekend is Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. Online customers earn $5 off their $100 purchases, and $10 off their $200 purchases, including Shelf Subscriptions, our shop’s book of the month club. No discount code is needed, just go to www.bookshelfthomasville.com and shop between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Local and nearby customers, we’ll be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. offering in-store discounts, prizes, and tote bags, and we’d love to see you there!

The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• • Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

  • Well Matched by Jen DeLuca

  • Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian

  • Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho

  • Jennifer, Hectate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg

  • No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib

  • I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer

  • Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close

  • Taste by Stanley Tucci

  • The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer

  • The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox

  • Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens

  • Prayers for the People by Terry Stokes

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 Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest.

If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Libro.FM:

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Episode 347 || Books You Might Have Missed

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is talking with frequent guest and friend Hunter Mclendon (you might know him as @shelfbyshelf on Instagram). They are evaluating their reading year and sharing some favorite titles that might have gotten lost in the 2021 chaos.

Before we get started, this is your friendly reminder that From the Front Porch is a production of The Bookshelf, an indie bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia. We’re in the throes of our second holiday shopping season held during a pandemic, and remarkably, our spirits are high. As you support indies like ours this holiday season, please remember to shop early, to be open to our suggestions when your first book preference might already be back-ordered, and to trust our deadlines. This year, December 1 is the deadline to purchase something from us and have it arrive by Christmas.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Shoutin’ in the Fire by Dante Stewart

• Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

• Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu

• Cheat Day by Liv Stratman

• Love Like That by Emma Duffy-Comparone (Currently back-ordered)

• Prayers for the People by Terry Stokes

• With Teeth by Krista Arnett

• The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clement and Onjuli Datta

• Revival Season by Monica West

• Palm Beach by Mary Adkins

• The Survivors by Alex Schulman

• Embassy Wife by Katie Crouch

• Virtue by Hermione Hoby

• All’s Well by Mona Awad (Currently back-ordered)

• Image Control by Patrick Nathan

• The Natural Mother of The Child by Krys Malcom Belc

• Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks Ramage

• Sarahland by Sam Cohen

• Let’s Get Back To The Party by Zak Salih

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 Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans.

If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Libro.FM:

Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports the community. All you need is a smartphone and the free Libro.fm app.

Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link:

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Episode 346 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 11

Welcome to another episode of From the Front Porch! Annie is back to answer your literary dilemmas like a bookish Frasier Crane in volume 11 of Literary Therapy.

Before we get started, this is your friendly reminder that From the Front Porch is a production of The Bookshelf, an indie bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia. We’re in the throes of our second holiday shopping season held during a pandemic, and remarkably, our spirits are high. As you support indies like ours this holiday season, please remember to shop early, to be open to our suggestions when your first book preference might already be back-ordered, and to trust our deadlines. This year, December 1 is the deadline to purchase something from us and have it arrive by Christmas.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf

• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

• Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

• Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

• Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• Finding Freedom by Erin French

• Educated by Tara Westover

• So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow

• Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

• The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

• Ecology of a Cracker Child by Janisse Ray

• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

• Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward

• Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson (currently unavailable)

• Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (currently unavailable)

• The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington

• Where I Come From by Rick Bragg

• Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

• A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• Black, White, and the Grey by Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano

• Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott

• Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

• Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny (currently unavailable)

• Misfortune of Marion Palm by Emily Culliton (currently unavailable)

• Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer

• Limelight by Amy Poppel

• Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel

• Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

• Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal

• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

• Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen (currently unavailable)

• This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

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 Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading Taste by Stanley Tucci.

If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Libro.FM:

Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app.

Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link:

libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH

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Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?’ 

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Episode 345 || November New Release Rundown

In today’s episode of From the Front Porch, Annie, Olivia, and Lucy are discussing their favorite newly released titles of the month and highlighting books you’ll want to add to your TBR list!

The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf.

Annie's List:

• The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu

• How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days by K.M. Jackson

• Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans

• Dear William by David Magee

• The Family by Naomi Krupitsky

• Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

• I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer

Olivia’s list:

• Tiger Skin Rug by Joan Haig

• A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

• Thursday’s Child by Noel Straetfield

• The Legend of the Christmas Witch by Dan Murphy & Aubrey Plaza

• Hornswoggled by Josh Crute

• Kid’s Book of Sticker Love by Irene Smit and Astrid van der Hulst

• Stuntboy, In the Meantime by Jason Reynolds

Lucy’s list:

• Aesop's Animals: The Science Behind the Fables by Jo Wimpenny

• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

• White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America's Heartland by Dick Lehr

• Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution by H.W. Brands

• Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music by Joseph Horowitz

• The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

• The 1619 Project: Born on the Water (children's picture book)

• These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

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 Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho. Olivia is reading Loveless by Alice Osman. Lucy is reading How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur.

If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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Episode 344 || October Reading Recap

It’s already the final week of October! In this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie talks about all the books she read this month.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf. As our store heads into the last three months of the year, we hope you’ll consider shopping small.

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

• Bewilderment by Richard Powers

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

• My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

• Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King

• Writers & Lovers by Lily King

• No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling

• So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

• Chemistry by Weike Wang

• Shoutin’ in the Fire by Dante Stewart

• The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone

• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

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

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 Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Libro.FM:

Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app.

Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link:

libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH

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Episode 343 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 10

This week Annie is back to answer listeners' literary conundrums in round ten of Literary Therapy.

The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (Currently unavailable)

• Stuart Little by E.B. White

• Book journal

• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

• The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

• Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

• Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb

• Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

• Competitive Grieving by Nora Zelvansky

• This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (Currently unavailable)

• Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

• The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

• Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel

• Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

• Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny

• All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

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 Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

This week, Annie is reading So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Libro.FM:

Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app.

Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link:

libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH

Flodesk:

Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?’ 

Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it’s easy to use. We’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to:

flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH