271 || The One with the Pandemic

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Annie and cousin, friend, and former Bookshelf staffer Ashley Sherlock share their thoughts on quarantine reading. What is one supposed to read during a global pandemic? The following are Annie and Ashley’s recommendations. All of the books mentioned in today’s podcast are available at The Bookshelf: The one who wants to pretend everything is fine: How To Be Fine by Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer; The Office by Andy Greene; Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman The new homeschooler: Matilda by Roald Dahl; Bloomability by Sharon Creech The graduate with no graduation: Here For It by R. Eric Thomas; Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas // Booksmart on Hulu The one freaking out: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox & the Horse by Charlie Mackesy;The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits The one doomsday prepping: The Road by Cormac McCarthy; The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker // The Leftovers on HBO The one planning her post-pandemic party: The After Party by Anton DiSclafani; The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker The one dreaming of a trip she’ll never take: Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin;The Vacationers by Emma Straub // Home on AppleTV The one who cries every day at 3:00: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead; Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman The one whose family is driving them crazy: All Adults Here by Emma Straub; The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson or The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney The one whose wedding got postponed: Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams; Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen 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 Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas and Ashley is reading The Office by Andy Greene. 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 the South. I want I wanted to escape my head because my head is so stupid these days. I wanted to be
0:29.7	inside someone else's head. Heidi Julevitz, The Folded Clock, A Diary.
0:39.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:43.1	Thomasville, Georgia and today I'm joined by my cousin friend and former
0:47.4	bookshelf staffer Ashley Sherlock to finally share our thoughts on quarantine reading. What is one supposed to read during a global
0:54.8	pandemic? Well, we have some recommendations. Hi Ashley.
0:58.8	Hello, thanks for having me. Welcome back. Thanks. What a time. Great time. What a time to be alive. So much fun.
1:07.9	I'm having so much fun. I love it. We're fine. This is great new experiences. I feel a lot like Jim in that
1:16.7	episode of the office I feel like I reference it all the time at the
1:19.8	bookshelf where he's Pam is going to labor but she's not going anywhere and he's like I'm not crazy she's crazy
1:27.9	everybody else is crazy and that's a little bit the level of pandemic slash quarantine I'm at right now is just
1:37.1	It feels like half the world is going about their normal life half is not
1:43.0	You're just staring at the camera wondering if anybody else understands.
1:46.5	Yes.
1:47.5	Absolutely.
1:49.5	So we have not done a podcast episode about quarantine reading because I don't know I didn't know what to say for
1:57.0	about eight weeks but now you had this great idea to kind of go through these different personalities we're seeing kind of crop up in light of the current global crisis.
2:09.0	And so I thought we would make book recommendations for every pandemic personality type.
2:15.0	Super easy task.
2:17.0	So fun.
2:19.0	Not hard at all.
2:20.0	I was sitting staring at my bookshelf going,
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