From the Front Porch

322 || May Reading Recap

This week Annie recaps her May reads.

The books mentioned on today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf:

• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton 

• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller 

• Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson 

• The Best Babysitters Ever by Caroline Cala 

• Home Stretch by Graham Norton 

• Palm Beach by Mary Adkins 

• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams 

• Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby 

• All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running by Elias Rodriques 

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling 

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 Finding Freedom by Erin French.

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.

321 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 7

This week Annie is answering listeners' literary conundrums in this episode of Literary Therapy.

The books mentioned on today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf:

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Ramona and Beezus by Beverly Cleary
• A Deadly Education
• The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune
• House on the Cerulean Sea
• Once and Future Witches
• The Night Circus
• Cinder
• The Scorpio Races
• The Caraval series
• Devil and the Dark Water
• Piranesi
• House on Vesper Sands
• Sorrow & Bliss
• Brood
• Early Morning Riser
• Crying in H Mart
• Take Me Home Tonight
• The Best Babysitters Ever series
• Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann
• Competitive Grieving by Nora Zelavansky
• Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel
• Good Company 
• Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
• Somebody's Daughter by Ashley Ford
• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
• A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
• With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Rules for Visiting
• The Other’s Gold
• Young Jane Young
• Savage News
• Hello, Sunshine
• Rise & Shine
• The Dutch House
• Low Country
• Late Migrations
• Ruby & Roland
• A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better
• Fresh Water for Flowers
• Five Tuesdays in Winter
• The Harpy
• Milk Blood Heat
• The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
• All the Water I've Seen Is Running
• Britt-Marie Was Here
• Olive, Again
• This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance
• The Ride of Her Life
• City of Girls
• Hannah Coulter
• State of Wonder
• Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
• Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

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 Home Stretch by Graham Norton.

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.

320 || Faith Books, Part Deux

This week Annie is joined by friend and bookstagrammer (@shelfbyshelf) Hunter McLendon to discuss faith books.

The books mentioned on today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf:

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• Home by Marilynne Robinson

• Lila by Marilynne Robinson

• Jack by Marilynne Robinson

• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

• A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel

• The Mothers by Brit Bennett

• Here For It by R. Eric Thomas

• Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

• Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle

• The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker

• Lit by Mary Karr

• The Liars Club by Mary Karr

• Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

• Sense and Sensibility by 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 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead and Hunter is reading Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.

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.

319 || April Reading Recap

This week Annie recaps and reviews her April reads.

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

• 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers

• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Competitive Grieving by Nora Zelevansky

• Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

• Revival Season by Monica West

• The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

• Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

• When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain

• The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel

• What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

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

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 The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton.

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.

318 || Casting Call, Vol. 4

Annie is joined by her casting experts, Courtney Kinsey, FTFP royals correspondent and co-host of the podcast I Do Declare; and Julie Anna Helms, @julieannareads on Instagram and creator of Who Would You Cast? polls. The three are casting One to Watch this week.

One to Watch is available for purchase at The Bookshelf, and you can cast your votes on our castings on Julie Anna’s Instagram stories on Sunday.

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 Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian. Julie Anna is reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and Courtney Kinsey is reading Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld.

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.

317 || Indie Bookstore Day

Listen in this week as Annie and The Bookshelf staffers celebrate Independent Bookstore Day by sharing their favorite things about indie bookstores and the books they love to sell.

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

• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

• Furious Hours by Casey Cep

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

• What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

• Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Calb

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister

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 The Trouble with Hating You by Sajni Patel.

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.

316 || The Kids‘ Table: Spring

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

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

Reading:

• Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

• Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

• Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

• Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley

• You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Cole

• 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers

• Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen

• Upworthy on Instagram

• Poetry Is Not A Luxury on Instagram

• The Washington Post subscription

• The Marshall Project: Article about author Sara Gruen

Watching:

• Ted Lasso on Apple TV+

• Love Island on Hulu

• The Limit (workout program) by Beth Nicely

• Sharon McMahon of Sharon Says So - Government for Grownups classes

• Yes Day on Netflix

Listening:

• Taylor Swift: From the Vault

• Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo

• Still Processing podcast

• Caul Baby by Morgan Jenkins

• Breezy Instrumental playlist by Kendra Joyner Adachi

• Hot Girl Walk playlist

• The First Spring playlist

Buying:

• Ally B

• The Bookshelf

• Material Kitchen

• Ashley has been buying grande lemonades with strawberries and two pumps of raspberry syrup on top from Starbucks

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 Kisses and Croissants by by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau and Ashley is reading Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney.

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.

315 || The Power of Poetry

Listen in this week as Annie is joined by special guest and author Andre' Hadley Marria (The Songs I Could Not Sing) to discuss all things poetry.

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

• The Songs I Could Not Sing by Andre’ Hadley Marria

• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• The Prophet by Kalil Gibran (including poem On Children)

• The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• We Speak Your Names by Pearl Cleage

• Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You In the Morning by Alice Walker

Some of Andre’s other favorite poets:

• William Wordsworth

• Gwendolyn Brooks

• Langston Hughes

• Walter Wintle

• Edgar Guest (Sermons We See )

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 Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson.

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.

314 || March Reading Recap

This week Annie recaps and reviews her March reads.

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

March Reads:

• Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

  • The New Yorker article: Crying in H Mart

• Love Like That by Emma Duffy-Comparone

• It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill

• You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

• Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

• Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

• The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent

• With Teeth by Kristen Arnett

• The Turnout by Megan Abbott

• The Second Season by Emily Adrian

• The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

Other books mentioned:

• Forty Rooms by by Olga Grushin

• The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney

• The Push by Ashley Audrain

• Dare Me by Megan Abbott

• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

• Final Girls by Riley Sager

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 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers.

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.

313 || March Madness 2021

Annie is joined this week by her husband and March Madness super fan, Jordan Jones to discuss their own bookish brackets.

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

• The Harpy by Megan Hunter

• The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

• All Adults Here by Emma Straub

• Writers and Lovers by Lily King

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

• Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland

• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

• Wintering by Katherine May

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

• All Things Reconsidered by Knox McCoy

• The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

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 The Turnout by Megan Abbott.

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.