From the Front Porch

Episode 337 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 9

This week Annie is back to answer listeners' literary questions and dilemmas in round nine of Literary Therapy.

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

• The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

• A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza

• Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• Z by Therese Anne Fowler

• A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler

• Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

• Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson

• The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis

• The Address by Fiona Davis

• The Doll House by Fiona Davis

• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

• The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

• Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson & Ronald Cotton

• Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

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. 

This week, Annie is reading Matrix by Lauren Groff.

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 336 || September 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:

• Matrix by Lauren Groff

• Fault Lines by Emily Itami

• Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

• A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

• Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

• Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen

• Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlake

• Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

• Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

• Pony by RJ Palacio

• Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray

• Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

• Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

• Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo

• Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by

  Dawn Turner

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

• Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos

• Bewilderment by Richard Powers

• Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a

  Broken System by Jarrett Adams

• Mennonite Valley Girl: A Wayward Coming of Age by Carla Funk

• The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar

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.

This week, Annie reading All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor. Olivia is reading Last Graduate by Naomi Novik. 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.

Episode 335 || August Reading Recap

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

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

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

• Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

• Dear William by David Magee

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

• Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

• When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor Schaumann

• Let’s Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder

• Four Friends by William D. Cohan

• The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

• Finding Freedom by Erin French

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

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. 

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 When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen.

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 334 || Books Kids Actually Want to Read, Vol. 2

This week Annie is talking with store manager Olivia about some favorite titles shared with her by kids in the local community, and we thought it’d be fun for you to hear directly from the kids themselves.

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

• Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

• Coo by Kaela Noele

• El Deafo by CeCe Bell

• Okay Witch by Emma Steinkeller

• Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

• Unsolved Case Files: Escape at 10,000 Feet by Tom Sullivan

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

• The Middle School Bites series by Steven Banks

• The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maude Hart Lovelace

• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

• The Unwanted series by Lisa McMann

• Camp/Click/Act by Kayla Miller

• Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

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

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. 

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 Let’s Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder. (Published April 2022)

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 333 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 8

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

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

• Falling by TJ Newman

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

• The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

• Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly

• Brood by Jackie Polzin

• I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by Sue Cerulean

• Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

• What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

• An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

• 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff

• The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff

• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

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

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 When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor S. Schumann.

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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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.

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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Flodesk:

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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.