275 || Playlist Meets Booklist: Summer

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined by Robbie Hopkins, a former teacher/librarian, now homeschool dad. Robbie is a music and literary aficionado, and shares his summer playlist based on some of Annie’s anticipated summer reads. You can listen to the playlist on Spotify here. The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased or preordered from The Bookshelf: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld The Lightness by Emily Temple Beach Read by Emily Henry Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Mae Goldberg Mother Land by Leah Franqui The Bright Lands by John Fram Let's Never Talk about This Again by Sarah Faith Alterman A Star Is Bored by Byron Lane The Switch by Beth O’Leary Of Bears and Ballots by Heather Lende 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 I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown and Robbie is reading The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt. 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. If I could go back I'd do everything different. Like what, she said. Oh everything, he turned back to the mirror. This big old world and we only get to go through it once the saddest thing there is you ask me
0:36.0	Britt Bennett the vanishing half
0:38.7	I'm Annie Jones owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:43.2	Thomasville, Georgia and today I'm joined by Robbie Hopkins a former teacher, a
0:47.7	librarian now homeschool dad. You'll recognize Robbie from our spring playlist
0:52.0	meets booklist episode.
0:53.6	He's a music and literary aficionado and today he's made us a summer
0:57.3	playlist based on some of my anticipated summer reads.
1:00.9	Hey Robbie.
1:01.9	Hey Annie, it's so good to be back. It's so fun. This is, I prefer recording in person. I feel like I've said that multiple times during quarantine. Because I like to read people's faces and to see, but I'm so glad you've joined me this way.
1:15.4	Well, I can promise you I'll be smiling the whole time.
1:18.0	This was yet another challenging playlist to make, but still just as fun as the first one.
1:22.6	Okay, so to refresh listeners memories, basically I sent Robbie a list of some of my most
1:29.4	anticipated seasonal titles. So we did this back in the spring spring now we're doing it for summer and then
1:34.4	Robbie used his I mean it's really magic what you're doing because you haven't
1:38.9	have you read any of these have not read I know the synopsis is or or the breakdown of each kind of the idea of the book the theme of the book but that's about it that's all I'm going on and I kind of love that like we did last time I really like not knowing everything about the book.
1:53.2	We talked about doing like a follow-up bonus episode and I think then quarantine happened and I didn't really
1:58.6	follow up on anything.
1:59.6	I remember when we recorded the first one it was like the week before
2:03.4	shut down or something. Yeah but I will tell you I listened to the playlist multiple
2:08.7	times and then I did subsequently read a lot of the books and it was so funny how the songs really
2:14.1	did match up with those books themes or just even the vibe if that makes sense like
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