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From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Annie and Olivia sat down in the middle of the chaos to talk about The Bookshelf’s reading challenge (of sorts!) for 2020. We covered all sorts of categories, with a variety of books: A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende The BFG by Roald Dahl There There by Tommy Orange The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer The Round House by Louise Erdrich This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow Brief Answers to Big Questions by Stephen Hawking Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman Wild by Cheryl Strayed The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith The Other Side of the Coin by Angela Kelly Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkienn The Martian by Andy Weir The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon Bread and Wine; Bittersweet; Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl Flour + Water by Thomas McNaughton The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin Devil in the Kitchen by Marco Pierre White Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Illegal by Eion Colfer Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Aliyy We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez The Great Gatsby and Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey Seven Days in Augusta by Mark Cannizzaro Believe It by Nick Foles The City Game by Matthew Goodman Open by Andre Agassi Find your Bookish bingo card here. 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's reading Friends & Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan. 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, And the Crying is for when there's nothing else left to do. Tommy Orange, they're there.
0:51.8	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf,
0:54.4	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:56.6	Thomasville, Georgia.
0:57.8	And today I'm joined by our shop manager, Olivia Schaefer,
1:01.9	and we're talking about bookshelf bingo that's what this
1:05.5	is called right yes that's what I've been referring to it as so we have a
1:12.0	2020 reading challenge. We launched it back in January. If I do say so myself
1:18.0	It's a very cute little bingo card. It is cute. We sent it out with our shelf subscriptions I think last month, but we have also
1:24.4	posted about it to Instagram stories, but we've gotten a lot of questions about suggestions
1:29.4	for how to complete their bingo card, meaning books to fulfill the reading challenge. So we're finishing
1:37.7	the first quarter of the year so it felt like a good time to kind of evaluate.
1:41.4	So we're going to go through these categories. If you're not
1:44.3	familiar with our bookshelf, bookish bingo challenge, you can find it on Instagram. I'll make sure to post a picture of our bingo cards.
1:52.8	If you are local, you can pick up a card at the bookshelf,
1:56.0	and otherwise it's available on Instagram stories
1:58.0	so you can complete it digitally.
2:00.0	And we're just going to work our way through this list.
2:02.8	There are nine categories and I loved the categories.
2:08.0	It was hard to come up with categories that other bookstores
2:11.2	or book bloggers had not already come up with for their reading
2:14.8	challenges because reading challenges are like a thing now. But we're going to
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