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Welcome to From the Front Porch, a weekly conversational podcast on books, small business, and life in the South, produced by The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia.
Episodes
Thursday Oct 13, 2016
Thursday Oct 13, 2016
Anne Bogel of Modern Mrs. Darcy and the What Should I Read Next podcast joins Annie and Chris to chat about book blogging, all those advanced reading copies, and what she's reading right now.
Podcasts Anne recommends:
Books mentioned in this episode:
+ Crossing to Safety
+ Age of Innocence
+ Madame Bovary
+ Alexander Hamilton
+ Commonwealth
+ Run
+ Bel Canto
For additional bookish conversation, hop on over to Episode 44 of What Should I Read Next; Annie was a guest this week!
Thursday Oct 06, 2016
Thursday Oct 06, 2016
Annie talks about the effects of stress on her reading life and chats with Chris about the books she read in September. Last month's selections included:
+ Moo by Sharon Creech
+ The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
+ Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
+ The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
You can find these selections and more on our store website: www.bookshelfthomasville.com.
Thursday Sep 29, 2016
Thursday Sep 29, 2016
Curious what the life of a book sales rep might look like? Annie and Chris interview Virginia Price, a sales rep for Penguin Random House. Virginia recommends her favorite upcoming fall book releases (and gives readers a preview of some spring titles to come). Plus, the three book lovers share their favorite podcasts and why movie book covers are so, so bad.
FICTION:
+ The Mothers
+ Ninth City Burning
+ Reputations
+ Swing Time
+ Ink and Bone
+ The Girl on the Train
NONFICTION:
+ The Princess Diarist
+ The Book of Joy
+ The Glass Universe
+ Dogs and Their People
Other titles mentioned:
+ War and Peace
+ Anna Karenina
+ Lord of the Rings
+ Exit West
+ MacArthur's Spies
Podcasts mentioned:
+ RadioLab
For more book recommendations, you can reach Virginia at vprice {at} penguinrandomhouse {dot} com.
Thursday Sep 22, 2016
Thursday Sep 22, 2016
Ever wonder what a booksellers conference might look like? Annie chats with her mom about this year's Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA): the authors, the booksellers, the lessons learned.
Books, podcasts, authors, and blogs mentioned:
+ DesignSponge and Grace Bonney
+ In the Company of Women
+ The King of the Birds
+ Girl in Pieces
+ Author Liane Moriarty
+ Author Mary Kay Andrews
+ Author Shauna Niequist
+ Little Women
+ A Year of Living Danishly
Thursday Sep 15, 2016
Thursday Sep 15, 2016
Author Ann Patchett recently compared bookselling to being on a sitcom. Annie and Chris investigate that claim, comparing their fellow booksellers to Friends characters and examining why we identify with fictional characters of all kinds.
+ Read Ann Patchett's original interview, here.
+ Find CJ Hauser's essay all about characters who are "just like us" here.
Thursday Sep 08, 2016
Thursday Sep 08, 2016
For some, life on the Gulf Coast is a religion, and now, we've got our very own Bible of sorts: Saints of Old Florida, a gorgeous new lifestyle book by Emily Raffield, Melissa Farrell, and Christina McDermott. Emily and Melissa chatted with Annie and Chris about life on the coast, their favorite coastal memories, and why collecting our Southern stories is so important.
For more information about Emily, Melissa, Christina, and their new book, visit their website, Saints of Old Florida. The book can be purchased online or through several locally-owned shops in and around the coast; a full stockist list is here.
Melissa's shop in Port St. Joe is called Joseph's Cottage.
In this episode, books and podcasts mentioned include:
+ Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
+ Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
+ Garance Dore's podcast, Pardon My French
Thursday Sep 01, 2016
Thursday Sep 01, 2016
Behold, the power of Oprah. Annie and Chris chat about the books Annie read in August, including Oprah's book club book, The Underground Railroad. The rest of Annie's list:
+ Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
+ The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
+ You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
+ The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close
+ The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
+ Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
+ Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
And other books Annie and Chris mentioned:
+ Fates & Furies
+ Crossing to Safety
+ Pond
+ The Royal We
+ Station Eleven
+ Everything I Never Told You
+ Reconstructing Amelia
+ Prep
+ Ghettoside
Thursday Aug 25, 2016
Thursday Aug 25, 2016
"A room without books is a body without a soul," said Cicero, and so we believe. This episode, Annie and Chris talk about the roles books play in homes and home decor: why we keep books and what they say about us.
+ This episode was inspired by Robbie Hopkins from Audible Discernment; you can check out our full episode with Robbie and the guys here.
+ Books by the foot your thing? You can buy them from another indie bookstore, Strand Books, here.
+ Mrs. Kendall's Unread Library, here.
Thursday Aug 18, 2016
Thursday Aug 18, 2016
When you travel, how big of a role does food play in your experience of a new city or town? This episode, Debra Smith, the owner and founder of Taste of Thomasville, a Thomasville Food Tour, visits with Annie and Chris. They chat about Thomasville's best restaurants, Gone with the Wind, and that big oak tree everybody's always talking about. Debra's favorite podcasts are The Dave Ramsey Show and Serial.
She's currently reading The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg.
You can find information and tickets on the Taste of Thomasville tour at www.tasteofthomasvillefoodtour.com.
Thursday Aug 11, 2016
Thursday Aug 11, 2016
Have you read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child yet? No spoilers here, but Chris and Annie do chat about their expectations going into the newly released book. They also discuss Go Set a Watchman, J.K. Rowling's turn as Robert Galbraith, and how they'd be sorted at Hogwarts.