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From the Front Porch

277 || Traveling through Books

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined this week by her well-traveled friend and fellow entrepreneur, Morgan Thomason. Morgan is the designer behind Winsome Paper, a whimsical stationery brand. Annie and Morgan help listeners travel through books this summer as most of our travel plans are a bust (for now). The books discussed on today’s podcast are available for purchase from The Bookshelf: London picks: Ordinary People by Diana Evans 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Europe picks: L’Appart by David Lebovitz The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais The Vacationers by Emma Straub Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante America picks: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard The Next Great Jane by K.L. Going Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan Next Great Jane by KL Going Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Other hot summer vacation picks: Tangerine by Christine Mangan Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Annie’s Summer TBR list: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn 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 Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and Morgan is reading Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty by Kate Hennessy. 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast you feel that you are never going to find the place.

0:22.0

You go to the first place, the first country,

0:25.0

to her neck curtains and her singular food, to her safe and open door.

0:30.0

You lie down, you eat, you listen to her, and you know that this house will not fall down,

0:36.2

this house is sturdy and is made of bricks, and the wolf will not come and blow it down.

0:41.3

Diana Evans, Ordinary People.

0:45.6

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown

0:49.9

Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm joined by my friend and fellow entrepreneur Morgan

0:54.4

Thomason. Morgan is the designer behind Winsome Paper, a whimsical stationary brand.

0:59.8

We met last year while on Tish Oxen Writers' Literary London London trip and Morgan happens to be one of the most

1:04.8

well-traveled people I've ever met so she's the perfect co-host

1:07.8

to help me tackle a suggestion from a podcast listener.

1:11.1

Hi Morgan.

1:12.1

Hey this is so fun.

1:14.0

I can't believe we're doing this.

1:16.0

It's literally the best, I can't wait.

1:18.0

We're recording on the one year anniversary of our friendship.

1:24.2

I was going to say London trip,

1:25.3

but our friendship is more important than the trip.

1:27.6

Happy friend of Versary, here we are.

1:29.2

I know.

1:30.2

It's so exciting.

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