266 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 2

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today, it’s time for another round of Literary Therapy. If you’re new here, Literary Therapy is a recurring episode series in which Annie plays the Dr. Frasier Crane or the Lucy van Pelt to listeners’ literary ailments. As mentioned in the episode, you can get book recs from the following: Hunter Mclendon at @shelfbyshelf Tyler Goodson at @tylergoodson Laura Tremaine at @laura.tremaine Mary Laura Philpott at @marylauraphilpott The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased on The Bookshelf’s website: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner East of Eden by John Steinbeck The End We Start From by Megan Hunter The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani The Explanation of Everything by Lauren Grodstein Francis and Bernard by Carlene Bauer Loving Frank by Nancy Horan The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza A Separate Peace by John Knowles The Mothers by Brit Bennett 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 An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott. 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. We lived in our times, which were hard times. We had our interests, which were
0:27.4	literary and intellectual, and only occasionally inexplicably political.
0:33.2	But what memory brings back from there is not politics or the meagerness of living on $150 a month
0:39.7	or even the writing I was doing, but the details of friendship.
0:43.3	Parties, picnics, walks, midnight conversations,
0:47.8	glimpses from occasional unencumbered hours.
0:51.2	What really illuminates those months is the faces of our friends.
0:56.7	Wallace Stegner crossing to safety.
0:59.7	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf,
1:01.9	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
1:03.9	Thomasville, Georgia. And today, I believe now more than ever, is a time for literary therapy.
1:11.2	If you're new here, literary therapy is a relatively new recurring episode series in which I play the Dr. Frazier Crane or the Lucy Van Pelt to listeners literary ailments.
1:22.0	So, deep breaths everybody, these have been hard,
1:26.2	uncertain, strange weeks and we're just going to take things one day at a time. I'm going to take one literary ailment at a time and we're going to get through this.
1:36.6	So without further ado, let's listen to the first literary dilemma.
1:41.2	Hi, Amy, this is Andrea from Dallas, Texas, and I was just calling in to say that I love listening
1:46.4	to your podcast.
1:48.3	I was wondering what people you follow or what resources you use to determine what books you're going to
1:55.4	read next. I love reading but I always hate wasting my time on a book I don't love
1:59.7	especially if I've already bought the book.
2:02.7	So just wondering, maybe some other people
2:05.0	I should follow on Instagram or resources
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