273 || May Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, Annie recaps the fourteen books she read during the month of May, all of which can be purchased on The Bookshelf’s website: Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker American Royals by Katherine McGee You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld Beach Read by Emily Henry Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin Sea Wife by Amity Gaige All Things Reconsidered by Knox McCoy Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. Martin (Buy your own Babysitter’s Book Club bundle here!) The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner 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 finishing The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner. 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. When the earth is cracking behind your feet, you go forward, one foot in front of the other,
0:29.7	one foot in front of the other. Best Kalb.
0:34.0	Nobody will tell you this but me.
0:37.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf,
0:39.0	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm recapping the books I read in May.
0:47.0	Guys, so many books. I somehow, some way read 14 books in May, which feels like some kind of personal record,
0:58.0	and also I truly don't know how that happened, because May has been one of those months that has felt like it has lasted forever and yet also has gone by in the blink of an eye.
1:08.0	I don't really know what's happening in terms of time anymore, and the bookshelf is humming along in a way that is stressful.
1:17.0	I think any small business owner would tell you right now and so I truly don't know
1:21.6	how we made this happen but I think I can probably thank my pool and I can thank having Sundays and Mondays off.
1:29.4	Olivia and I do not work on Mondays.
1:32.2	The store is technically closed to the public on Mondays
1:34.9	and we have other staff kind of come in
1:37.1	and run things behind the scenes in a way
1:41.2	I am very grateful for. And so that has allowed me and Olivia to take two days off
1:45.7	which has been a huge blessing and I guess is how I finished 14 books I don't know
1:50.1	14 books is a lot though which means we need to go ahead and dive right in because I want to be
1:54.4	cognizant of everyone's time even though time doesn't matter anymore.
1:59.6	The first book I read in May was Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington.
2:04.0	I ordered this one for myself after seeing it, I think honestly come through as a special order,
2:09.6	through one of you probably, either a podcast listener or an Instagram follower or a customer
2:14.9	someone ordered this book and it looked charming and so I thought I'd give it a go
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