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From the Front Porch

257 || Books and the 2020 Oscars

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Annie and fellow book club member and Oscar enthusiast, Callie Sewell, deep dive the 2020 Academy Awards and what it means for our reading lives. The books discussed during the podcast can be purchased from The Bookshelf: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt Caging Skies by Christie Leunens Meg & Jo by Virgina Kantra We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman March by Geraldine Brooks Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Ann Boyd Rioux A Separation by Katie Kitamura State of the Union by Nick Hornby The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman 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 productions 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 -- Super Host by Kate Russo, which will be available June, 9, 2020, and guest, Callie is reading — The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher. 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 shipping on all your online 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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0:00.0

Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South. You're going to do. We're married. It's different. We have created a whole life together despite everything.

0:36.0

A language, a family, some kind of understanding, an intimate knowledge of everything to do with the other person.

0:43.4

What would you call that?

0:45.2

Nick Hornby, State of the Union.

0:48.0

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown

0:51.7

Thomasville, Georgia.

0:53.0

And today I'm joined by my friend Callie Sewell,

0:55.6

bookshelf customer, book club member, and fellow Oscars enthusiast.

0:59.6

Together we're deep diving the Academy Awards

1:01.9

and what it means for our reading lives.

1:04.0

Welcome, Cali.

1:05.0

Thanks Annie.

1:06.0

This is so fun.

1:07.0

I know this is so fun.

1:08.0

Somebody to just like chat about the Oscars win.

1:11.0

Yes.

1:12.0

So Cali and I have been in the same book club for

1:15.0

I don't know either years

1:18.0

years yeah and that is kind of how we met and I think mutually discovered that we have a shared appreciation for Oscars, movies, pop culture.

1:28.0

So I'm curious...

1:29.0

And this ranges everything from like The Bachelor to... Oh yeah, we not a hundred percent classy all the time there

1:36.4

are Bachelor texts going back and forth so yeah with this it runs the gamut.

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