From the Front Porch

307 || Share Your Stuff: A Galentine‘s Conversation

Annie is joined by special guest and author Laura Tremaine, whose new book, Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First, is perfect reading for Galentine’s Day. Laura is also the host of the podcast Ten Things to Tell You, and her book’s mission intertwines beautifully with her work there, encouraging readers and listeners to open up and share their stories. 

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

• Share Your Stuff , I’ll Go First by Laura Tremaine (limited number of copies available, otherwise backordered until mid-February)

• Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Bloom

• The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

• Five Wives by Joan Thomas

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 How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones.

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.

306 || January Reading Recap

This week Annie is recapping all of the books she read in January.

All of the books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf:

• People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

• Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin

• The Push by Ashley Audrain

• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

• Jesus and John Wayne by Kristen Kobes Du Mez

• Thwonk by Joan Bauer

• The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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 At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman.

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.

BONUS: Elizabeth Passarella interview

You were so kind and patient during our winter hiatus, so we wanted to bring you a bonus author interview today! We post author interviews to Patreon every so often, and this is one of them. If you like what you hear, consider supporting us there! Our guest today is Elizabeth Passarella, the author of Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York. Enjoy!

305 || So You Watched Bridgerton

Annie is joined this week by Royal correspondent and frequent podcast contributor, Courtney Kinsey. The two debrief the Netflix sensation, Bridgerton and what books show lovers might enjoy.

The books discussed on today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

• To Have and To Hoax by Martha Waters

• A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler

• A League of Extraordinary Women series by Evie Dunmore

• Jo and Laurie by Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz

• The Cazalet Chronicles series by Elizabeth Jane Howard

• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

• The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory

• Emma by Jane Austen

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

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 Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Courtney is reading Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski.

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.

304 || Reading Resolutions 2021

We are back! This week Annie is joined by frequent guest, good friend and bookstagrammer of @shelfbyshelf, Hunter McClendon. The two will discuss their 2021 reading resolutions.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase at The Bookshelf:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Persuasion by Jane Austen

• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

• Emma by Jane Austen

• Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford

• The Removed by Brandon Hobson

• Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson

• The Round House by Louise Edrich

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

• Swan’s Way by Marcel Proust

• Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin

• Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley

• Jesus and John Wayne by Kristen Kobes Du Mez

• The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• Bloomability by Sharon Creech

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 Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin and Hunter is reading Let’s Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih.

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.

303 || Our Favorite Books of 2020

This week, Annie is joined by Bookshelf staffers Olivia Schaffer and Lucy Stoltzfus to discuss their favorite books of 2020.

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

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 Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words by Andrew Morton; Lucy is reading The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan; and Olivia is reading We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen.

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.

302 || Ask Us Anything

This week, Annie answers listeners questions about books, small business and life in the South.

The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf:

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words by Andrew Morton

• Finding Freedom by Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie

• 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 Wintering by Katherine May. 

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.

301 || Books You Might Have Missed

Annie is joined by frequent guest, friend and bookstagrammer, Hunter McLendon (@shelfbyshelf ) to chat about books they loved that you might have missed in 2020 since, you know, pandemic. 

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

Weather by Jenny Offill

His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie

Writers and Lovers by Lily King

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

The Silent Treatment by Abbie Greaves

Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch

Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

Kept Animals by Kate Milliken

Sisters by Daisy Johnson

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

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 Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant and Hunter is reading A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. 

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.

300 || November Reading Recap

Join Annie this week as she recaps the books she read in November.

• Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

• The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

• Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

• Admission by Julie Buxbaum

• All About Us by Tom Ellen

• The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington

• Better Luck Next Time by Julie Claiborne Johnson

• Anna K by Jenny Lee

• Wintering by Katherine Mays

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 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.

299 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 5

Join Annie this week for a little literary therapy as she answers and consults listeners on their questions and reading conundrums.

The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf:

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

• The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

• There There by Tommy Orange

• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• His Only Wife by Peace A. Medie

• A Burning by Megha Majumdar

• Jack by Marilynne Robinson

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

• Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin 

• The Holdout by Graham Moore

• Defending Jacob by William Landay

• You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz (The Undoing on HBO)

• The Dinner by Herman Koch

• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

• The Giver by Lois Lowry

• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

• John Grisham

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 Anna K by Jenny Lee.

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.