258 || To All the Boys in Books I‘ve Loved Before

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In honor of Valentine’s Day, Annie and her two special guests — Ashley Sherlock, cousin, friend, and former Bookshelf social media guru, and Hunter McLendon of @shelfbyshelf — discuss the book To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han and reminisce about all the literary crushes they’ve had and what literary crushes say about you. Most of the books discussed today can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Looking for Alaska by John Green Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (4th book) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott White Oleander by Janet Fitch Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Impulse by Ellen Hopkins Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Emma by Jane Austen A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Normal People by Sally Rooney Emily Novels by L.M. Montgomery Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman The Secret History by Donna Tartt Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett To Kill A Mockingbird by by Harper Lee 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 Hunter is listening to Flowers in the Attic and Ashley is listening to Such A Fun Age on Libro.fm. This week, Annie is reading Writers & Lovers by Lily King, and she adores it. 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. I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it. It's a lot of
0:34.0	a lot of responsibility to hold a person's heart in your hands.
0:37.0	Jenny Hahn, to all the boys I've loved before.
0:40.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm joined by two special guests, Ashley Sherlock, cousin, friend and former Bookshelf Social Media Guru guru and Hunter McClendon of shelf by
0:54.7	shelf fame. Together we're reminiscing about all the literary crushes we've
0:59.3	had before. Hi guys! Hey! This is so fun! Hunter's a regular. Ashley, have we recorded together before?
1:07.6	Um, I don't think we have. Uh, maybe we did. Maybe like many, many moons ago for like a bonus episode or something.
1:15.0	That feels right.
1:17.0	So when I was brainstorming, I don't know if listeners, if I've told listeners this,
1:22.0	but I have every episode from now until the end of the year, like sketched it, which is really on brand for me as a person.
1:29.0	But this was the episode title I was most proud of. So we are talking about literary
1:36.4	crushes because to all the boys I've loved before, PS I love you, comes out.
1:41.6	I think perhaps the day we were the day this episode goes live.
1:45.6	Okay. So let's talk a little bit about our experience with the Jenny Han books
1:51.2	and then also the movies which made us probably I'll read the books and
1:56.1	then we're going to move into our own literary crushes so talk to me Hunter
2:00.7	tell me about your love or loathing.
2:04.6	What is it for to all the boys I've loved before?
2:06.5	Okay, so I actually, last, I read them last year,
2:11.1	I watched the movie first and I watched the movie first and I loved the movie I was like this is such a cute movie it's so great I loved Peter Kavinsky and then I read the books last year and I was on Instagram like narrating every little thought I had because it really is such a great one to like discuss as you're reading.
2:32.8	God, they are such, have you read them Ashley?
2:34.7	I actually haven't.
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