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From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week Annie is joined by special co-host Kendra Adachi of the podcast The Lazy Genius and author of the soon-to-be-released The Lazy Genius Way. The two of them talk bookshelves, pandemic reading habits, and, of course, the release of Kendra’s new book, which you can preorder from The Bookshelf. You can preorder Kendra’s book, which releases on August 11, and then join us for a “Books and Blandly Handsome Men” conversation on August 27. Tickets for the virtual event are $10, or free with the purchase of The Lazy Genius Way from The Bookshelf. 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 The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone and Kendra is reading The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan. 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. If an activity doesn't prepare you for what matters to you, it's just noise.
0:28.0	Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius Way.
0:31.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:35.8	Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm joined by a very special co-host, Kendra Adachi from the
0:41.0	Lazy Genius Podcast.
0:42.9	In her weekly show and her upcoming book,
0:45.3	Kendra helps listeners be geniuses about the things that matter
0:48.8	and lazy about the things that don't.
0:51.0	Today we're talking bookshelves, pandemic reading habits, and of course the release of
0:55.6	Kendra's new book The Lazy Genius Way, which you can pre-order from the bookshelf.
1:00.1	Hi, Kendra! Hi, Annie. This is so fun.
1:04.0	It's so exciting. I occasionally have these moments of kind of starstruck.
1:09.0	Oh my gosh, I'm talking to a person I've really liked on the internet for a long time. I feel the same way. I was like
1:14.7	I was like, I had to talk to Annie B Jones. I was so excited. We've never had a, do you realize outside of like
1:20.9	Instagram d'ems, you and I have never had a conversation.
1:25.2	It's so weird. It's so true because you did like the literary London trip
1:29.8	the year before I did. So I feel like we have like mutual friends and relationships and we
1:35.0	DM but that's about it. Right but I feel like I as it is with social media it's like I
1:41.3	follow you and so I know what's happening in your life and I don't know I'm
1:44.9	guessing the same because you comment on my stuff so I know the same is to review so it's like we
1:48.2	sort of keep up with each other but we really never have. So this is it, live for the world to hear.
1:55.0	Okay, when we started talking about this
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