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From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, Annie chats with Bookshelf staffer Lucy all about her favorite baby books and books for mom and moms-to-be, including: Great with Child How to Raise a Reader Giraffes Can’t Dance The Read-Aloud Family Who Sang the First Song Don't Forget to Remember You Nest with Me Because Cribsheet Expecting Better Let Us Pray The Word of the Lord If There Never Was a You 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 The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey. Lucy is reading The Splendid and the Vile. 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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in South. Both a baby and a baby and a poem masquerade as something we've created when we know that they arrive from somewhere beyond us, that they are gifts.
0:32.0	Beth Ann Finley, Great with Child. I'm Annie Jones,
0:37.8	owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:41.3	Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm joined by
0:44.1	bookshelf staffer Lucy Stoltzfus. Lucy was scheduled to come back from maternity
0:48.7	leave this month before coronavirus changed all our plans and despite the change in circumstances I
0:54.4	still wanted to sit down with Lucy and talk about her new son Gabriel, what books
0:58.6	expectant and new moms actually want to read and what books babies really like. So without further ado,
1:05.6	Lucy, hi! Hi! I'm so glad to talk to you. I wish I could see you. That is the disadvantage to this. But at least I can
1:16.3	hear your beautiful voice. Thank you for joining me on the podcast today.
1:21.3	I'm so excited to be here. So I wanted to just first ask and you know share as
1:29.1	little or as much as you want but basically letting listeners know how life with the baby is how
1:35.4	are you how old is Gabriel okay so last Wednesday Gabriel turned three months old
1:40.4	and I thought that I would be sad he's out of his three zero to three
1:47.6	month clothes he's into three to six month clothes I thought that I would be kind of
1:51.5	of one of those mothers who was always
1:53.2	lamenting the loss of the previous stage. I'm not. I'm so happy because like I said to you
2:00.2	before we started recording Gabriel slept from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.
2:06.0	last night and that's awesome.
2:08.0	It's such a joy.
2:10.0	It's not every night.
2:11.0	I texted my friend who had a baby maybe five weeks after me
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