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From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is joined by her mom, Susie Butterworth who shares her suggested PG books for sensitive readers. All of the books discussed in this episode can be purchased at The Bookshelf: Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano Anne of Green Gables by by Lucy Maud Montgomery Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Henry Educated by Tara Westover The Love Story of Missy Carmichael by Beth Morrey Mr. Malcolm’s List by Suzanne Allain The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner Stand All the Way Up by Sophie Hudson Little House on the Prairie collection by Laura Ingalls Wilder Betsy-Tacy Treasury collection by Maud Hart Lovelace Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland Boston Girl by Anita Diamant All-of-a-Kind Family Book Series by Sydney Taylor We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Mother to Son by Jasmine L. Holmes Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor The Crosswicks Journal Series by Madeline L’’Engle A Rhythm of Prayer by Sarah Bessey Miracles and Other Reasonable Things by Sarah Bessey 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 Tiny Imperfections by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans and Susie is reading Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin. 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. You're going to do. Perhaps if I make myself right, I shall find out what is wrong with me.
0:30.0	Doty Smith, I capture the castle.
0:33.3	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf,
0:35.3	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:39.0	And today I'm finally sitting down with my mom
0:41.8	to talk about PG-LIT. You asked for book selections
0:45.1	for sensitive readers and I couldn't think of a single reader better suited for
0:49.0	that conversation than my mom. Susie Butterworth is a retired preschool teacher and devoted wife and
0:54.6	mother who fell in love with reading as an adult. Hi mom, hi Annie. This is so
1:00.3	fun. We did this like many, many moons ago.
1:04.0	Yes.
1:05.0	We did a podcast episode.
1:08.0	Was it about Market?
1:09.0	Yeah, I think it was.
1:11.0	I actually had you on the schedule this year to do a talk about market but
1:14.9	market. Well who knows who knows what will happen with market but we get emails all the time about PG recommendations because books are tricky because there's not like a rating system.
1:30.8	It's not like movies or TV shows, and I feel like I often reference you when I'm talking
1:37.6	about books that are maybe for more sensitive readers or books that are maybe fall in that PG category, you're the first reader I think of.
1:46.1	So I thought it would be fun to talk to you about your reading life.
1:50.4	All right.
1:51.4	Okay, so the first question I have is kind of we you have talked to me before
1:56.9	about falling in love with reading as a grown-up. Talk to me about what made you kind of fall in love with reading, I don't know, as an adult.
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