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From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, host and owner of The Bookshelf, Annie Jones, has a special guest joining her to tackle an important listener question: What should the royals be reading? Annie’s friend Courtney Kinsey is a fellow royals enthusiast, an avid reader and book club member, and a podcaster in her own right, co-hosting the show “I Do Declare!” with her sister Betsy. The books mentioned on today’s episode are available for purchase on The Bookshelf website: The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan American Royals by Katharine McGee Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot Dear America series Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham Recommendations for Harry and Meghan: Burnout by Emily Nagoski (for Meghan) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (for Harry) This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (for Harry) Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis Recommendations for Queen Elizabeth: A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Recommendations for Charles: All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg Recommendations for William and Kate: East of Eden by John Steinbeck (for William) Untamed by Glennon Doyle Melton (for Kate) 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, I’m reading You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe. Courtney is reading The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson. 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. There are plenty of people who like you just as you are. You should remember that when you
0:27.0	start feeling like you're being erased. Heather Cox and Jessica Morgan, the Royal We.
0:38.3	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf,
0:40.4	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I've got a special
0:45.2	guest joining me to tackle an important listener question. What should the Royals be reading?
0:51.5	My friend Courtney Kinsey is a fellow Royals enthusiast, an avid
0:55.0	reader and book club member, and a podcaster in her own right, co-hosting the
0:59.2	show I do declare with her sister Betsy. Courtney, thanks for coming on the show.
1:04.3	Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
1:07.6	I'm excited too because I feel like you are well versed in royal culture.
1:16.1	Even before we met in real life,
1:18.0	I felt like I followed your Instagram stories
1:20.6	and you frequently posted about the royal
1:22.4	so I knew I had a kindred spirit.
1:24.1	Oh that's awesome. So I want to talk about when you became kind of why you have an
1:30.9	obsession with the Royals. Where has that come from?
1:33.5	I think it comes from actually before I became obsessed
1:37.0	with the Royals.
1:37.9	I really was just obsessed with all things England.
1:42.0	From the time I was a kid I was obsessed with London. I
1:45.5	wanted to go there as soon as I saw the Mary Kate and Ashley movie
1:48.7	Winning London. The best one in my opinion. The best one. So I've always been obsessed with British people and British culture and
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