Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South. You're going to be.

Glenin Doyle, Untamed.

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

Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm recapping all the books I read in March.

I hope you guys are doing okay. I don't know what the world will look like by the

time this episode goes up, but we are so grateful at the bookshelf for the support we have received over the past couple of weeks.

These are certainly scary times to own a small business and to run a small business, but thanks to both

the purchases and the online support, but also just the virtual

encouragement, we are feeling so hopeful for the future and for what life might look like

when it finally maybe returns to some version of normal in a few weeks or in a few months.

We are just feeling really grateful.

It is, as I said, kind of a scary time to own a small business

but the support we have received is overwhelming and unbelievable and is really giving us hope for our future.

So thank you guys so much for every DM, every repost, every purchase.

It truly does mean the world to me, to the bookshelf staff, and we are feeling,

I think like a lot of you, overwhelmed and unsure, but also so grateful and so hopeful.

So thank you so much.

I did read a lot of books in March.

I don't know if it's because there was no basketball on the TV or because I pretty much was

existing at the bookshelf and then at my house and nowhere else. So plenty of reading was able to get done and a

pretty wide range of reading. I feel like I read stuff from almost every genre.

So let's dive in. The first book that I finished in March was most likely by Sarah Watson.

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