261 || Backlist Book Club, Vol. 7: March

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week Annie and guest, Hunter McLendon of @shelfbyshelf, bring you the first Backlist Book Club of 2020. The discussion revolves around Geraldine Brooks' March. All of the books discussed today can be purchased from The Bookshelf: March by Geraldine Brooks Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography by Susan Cheever The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers 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 Office by Andy Greene and Hunter is listening to The Dutch House by Ann Patchett on Libro.fm. 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.
0:13.0	Do you know. and do you know. Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than
0:46.8	courage and cowardice? I do not think there is a man alive who will not yearn
0:51.1	to possess the former and dread to be accused of the latter.
0:55.5	One is held to be the apogee of man's character, the other it's nadir.
1:00.3	And yet to me the two sit side by side on the circle of life removed from each other by the merest degree of arc.
1:07.0	Geraldine Brooks March.
1:10.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm joined by Hunter McClendon of Shelf by Shelf to bring you our first backlist book club of 2020.
1:21.3	We are talking about Geraldine Brooks 2005 novel March.
1:25.6	Hi Hunter.
1:27.0	Hello.
1:28.0	Welcome back.
1:29.0	Thanks.
1:30.0	I feel like I'm here all the time now.
1:32.0	I like that. Yes, I feel like I'm here all the time now. I like that. Yes I feel like we've been together and now it'll be two out of three of the times actually every episode I think you've been on we will have talked about little women in some
1:43.0	former fashion yeah that's right oh my gosh one of these days will be over it but
1:47.6	clearly that time is not now this is like the new Lindsay Lohan.
1:50.3	It is forget Lindsay we're going to talk about show much.
1:55.0	Don't get carried away.
1:57.0	So we decided, actually it was your idea, back when we recorded our episode about Little Women and the New Credit Gerewig
2:03.8	adaptation, you suggested that our first Backlist Book Club, which we knew was going to be in March,
2:08.7	could be March by Geraldine Brooks, which I thought was super smart. It's a book that I had heard of but had never even desired to read and I don't mean that in a negative way. I just had never even thought about it. I had seen it on the bookshelfs shelves and never really I don't know I think I'm
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