From the Front Porch

332 || August New Release Roundup

The Bookshelf’s store manager, Olivia and Lucy join Annie this week to share their August new release rundowns.

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

• Palm Beach by Mary Adkins

• When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen

• Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

• Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

• Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow

• Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger

• Dead Wednesday by Jerry Spinelli

• Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

• Mrs. March by Virginia Feito

• Say It Out Loud by Allison Varnes

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. 

This week, Annie is reading Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King. Olivia is reading We Are Family by Lebron James. Lucy is reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles.

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.

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331 || July Reading Recap

In this week’s episode, Annie recaps her July reads.

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

• Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

• Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein

• Survive the Night by Riley Sager

• New Girl in Little Cove by Damhnait Monoghan

• You Have a Match by Emma Lord

• Falling by T.J. Newman

• Millennial Nuns by the Daughters of Saint Paul

• My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

• Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

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 Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King.

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 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.

330 || So You Watched Ted Lasso

Listen in this week as Annie and guest, cousin and Bookshelf Community Manager, Ashley Sherlock discuss all things Ted Lasso.

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

• Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

• Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman (Beartown by Fredrik Backman)

• The From-Aways by CJ Hauser

• Frankly in Love by David Yoon

• New Girl in Little Cove by Damhnait Monaghan

• Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engel

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

• A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza

• At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

• The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebowitz

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 Falling by T.J. Newman. Ashley is reading The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller.

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 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.

329 || Jane Austen Revisited

This week Annie is joined by friend, Bookstagrammer (@shelfbyshelf) and frequent co-host, Hunter McLendon to talk all things Jane Austen!

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

• Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

• Emma by Jane Austen

• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

• The Prayers of Jane Austen by Jane Austen

• Karen Swallow Prior, “A Novel Approach to Virtue”:

  https://www.ttf.org/portfolios/online-conversation-reading-jane-austen/

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 Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang. Hunter is reading Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead.

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 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.

328 || What Would Susie Read?, Vol. 3

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is joined by her mom, Susie to discuss books for sensitive readers.

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

• What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins

• The Sweet Taste of Muscadines by Pamela Terry

• The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich 

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray 

• Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty

• The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

• God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney

• When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

• Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

• Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein

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 Survive the Night by Riley Sager. Susie is reading When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash.

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 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.

327 || June Reading Recap

This week Annie recaps her June reads.

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

• The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson (listed on Libro.fm)

• The Royals Next Door by Karina Halle

• Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

• Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight

• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Cheat Day by Liv Stratman

• Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

• The Layover by Lacie Waldon

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

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 Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer.

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 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.

326 || Best Books of the Year... So Far

This week Annie is joined by friend, Bookstagrammer and frequent co-host, Hunter McLendon to chat about their favoirte books of the year... so far.

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

Annie’s list:

• Revival Season by Monica West

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

• Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

• Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heather

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley

• Brood by Jackie Polzin

• Olympus Texas by Stacey Swann

Hunter’s List:

• The Natural Mother of the Child by Krys Malcolm Belc

• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

• Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

• Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters

• Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

• My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Sarahland by Sam Cohen

• Yes Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage

• Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

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. 

This week, Annie is reading Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Hunter is reading The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin. Thank you again to our 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 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.

 

325 || Reading to Understand with Sharon Says So

This week, Annie is joined by America’s government teacher, Sharon McMahon. Sharon is the mastermind behind the Instagram account Sharon Says So. She and Annie tackle how best to read to understand, how fiction helps cultivate empathy, and why becoming a lifelong learner is so important..

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

• Sea Biscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

• American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson

• Dead Wake by Erik Larson

• You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe

• Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

Sharon’s favorite podcasts:

• Office Ladies

• Sharon Says So (coming soon!)

Sharon’s suggested press reading:

• Reuters

• Associated Press

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 Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney and Sharon is reading Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.

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.

324 || The Kids‘ Table: Summer

Listen in this week as Annie and guest, cousin and Bookshelf Community Manager, Ashley Sherlock chat about their Summer reading, listening, watching and buying lists.

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

Reading:

• The Guncle by Steven Rowley

• Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

• Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson

• Jo Rodgers’ column in House & Garden UK

Watching:

• Mare of Easttown

• Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

• Law and Order: SVU

• Friends: The Reunion

Listening:

• Phoebe Reads a Mystery

• Sour by Olivia Rodrigo

• The Wreckage of my Presence (Libro.fm) by Casey Wilson

• That Summer (Libro.fm) by Jennifer Weiner

• Mergers & Acquisitions (Libro.fm) by Cate Doty

You can join The Bookshelf on Libro.fm!

Buying:

• Iced chai latte with vanilla sweet cream cold foam and cinnamon dolce syrup from Starbucks

• The Common Room Shop

• Pickleball set

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 Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford and Ashley is reading Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford.

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.

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. 

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.