259 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 1

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today, Annie is diving into listeners’ bookish dilemmas with some literary therapy. Topics include romance novels, tackling nonfiction, genre shame, and, of course, Little Women. Pretend Annie is coming to you live from Seattle, because she is Annie Jones, and she is listening. Want to leave a voicemail for the next round of Literary Therapy? Email podcast@bookshelfthomasville.com, or leave a voicemail here. Bossy Pants by Tina Fey Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Inheritance by Dani Shapiro Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Know My Name by Chanel Miller I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Americana by Bhu Srinivasan An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino 27 Dresses by Jesse Russell Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry 10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Ann Boyd Rioux March Sisters by Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado & Jane Smiley Meg and Jo by Virginia Kantra 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 Handle with Care by Lore Ferguson Wilbert. 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. Oh, Do your thing and thing and don't care if they like it.
0:43.0	Tina Fay, Bossy Pants.
0:46.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf,
0:48.0	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:51.4	And today I'm diving into listeners bookish dilemmas with some literary
0:55.3	therapy. Today's topics include romance novels, tackling non-fiction, genre shame, and of course, little
1:02.4	women.
1:03.0	Pretend I'm coming to you live from Seattle because I'm Annie Jones and I'm listening.
1:08.0	Hi, my name is Sheridan. I'm from Connecticut and I really struggle to read non-fiction. I try and I try and
1:16.2	sometimes I just have to put the book down or I just go back to my same cheesy romance.
1:20.3	Help.
1:21.3	Hi Sheridan.
1:23.0	So I think we need to first figure out what non-fiction you're trying because as all readers know,
1:28.0	not all non-fiction is created equal.
1:31.0	And I think it's important to note too that how we read fiction and non-fiction are two very different things, two very different ways of reading.
1:40.0	I tend to read both fiction and non-fiction, but I cannot binge non-fiction titles like I tend to
1:47.5	binge novels. I just can't. Non-fiction, even if it's a memoir or something like that tends to take me a little longer to work my way through
1:55.8	So make sure you're not judging yourself on your reading of non-fiction as you are
2:02.4	reading a fiction if that makes sense.
2:04.8	So make sure you're not being too hard on yourself, first of all.
2:07.8	Second of all, I think a go-to place to start, you want something that's going to hold your attention and kind of
2:16.3	Conquer your frustration with non-fiction I think I'd start with a memoir something something funny, like Tina Fay's Bossy Pants or Mindy Kaling's is everyone hanging out without me.
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