From the Front Porch

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Episode 342 || Pandemic Reading

In this week’s episode, Annie and her friend Hunter are talking about “pandemic brain” and how their literary tastes have changed since March of 2020.

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

• Matrix by Lauren Groff

• Real Life by Brandon Taylor

• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

• Most Likely by Sarah Watson

• Millennial Nuns by the Daughters of St. Paul

• Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (currently unavailable)

• Middlemarch by George Eliot (currently unavailable)

• My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

• Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

• A Burning by Megha Majumdar

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• Luster by Raven Leilani

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 Groundskeeping by Lee Cole. Hunter is reading The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken.

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:

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Episode 341 || October New Release Rundown

In this week’s episode, Annie talks with Olivia and Lucy about the new releases you don’t want to miss this month!

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

• My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

• Where the Light Fell by Philip Yancey

• Hill House Living by Paula Sutton

• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

• On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library, edited by Glory Edim

• The Deep Places by Ross Douthat

• The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

• Our Table by Peter H Reynolds

• Long Road to the Circus by Betsy Bird, illustrated by David Small

• Frankie & Bug by Gayle Forman

• Clarice the Brave by Lisa McMann

• Murder at Mallowan Hall by Collen Cambridge

• Bookshop of Dust and Dreams by Mindy Thompson

• Grave Reservations by Cherie Priest

• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

• A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris

• Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

• Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl

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

• The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams

• The Taking of Jemima Boone: The True Story of the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America by Matthew Pearl

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 Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King. Olivia is reading Thursday’s Child by Noel Streatfield. Lucy is reading These Precious Days by Ann Patchett.

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 340 || September Reading Recap

In this week’s episode, Annie talks about all the books she read in September.

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

• • Matrix by Lauren Groff

  • The Power by Naomi Alderman

  • We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza

  • Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

  • Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

  • The Survivors by Alex Schulman

  • The Dinner by Herman Koch

  • Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu

  • A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza

  • A Burning by Megha Majumdar

  • The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

  • Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty

  • Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl

  • Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl

  • Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer

  • Interview with Hilma and Meg Wolitzer

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 Bewilderment by Richard Powers.

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 www.patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. 

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

Episode 339 || Casting Call, Vol. 5

Annie is joined by her friends and casting experts, Courtney Kinsey and Julie Anna Helms. Every few months, Julie Anna, Courtney, and Annie brainstorm their dream cast for a recent book they loved. Julie Anna then allows readers to vote for their favorites on her Instagram @julieannareads. This week, they’re casting Finlay Donovan Is Killing It.

Finlay Donovan is Killing It is available for purchase at The Bookshelf, and you can cast your votes on our castings on Julie Anna’s Instagram stories on Sunday.

You can click this link to purchase Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano from us.

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 Smile by Sarah Ruhl. Julie Anna is reading Rabbits by Terry Miles, and Courtney is reading The Dating Plan by Sara Desai.

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.

Episode 338 || Kids Table Fall

Today Annie is joined by her cousin and frequent Bookshelf collaborator, Ashley Sherlock. Every season, they sit down at the metaphorical kids’ table to chat about what they’re reading, watching, listening to, and buying.

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

• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

• ”Adrift” by Mark Nepo (This is a poem from this book)

• Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl

• Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen

• What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind by Jennifer Senior

• Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer

• J.Crew Factory jeans

• Bookshelf reusable grocery bags

• UpWest

• The Common Room

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 Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer and Ashley is reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead.

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.