284 || How to Start a Book Club

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week Annie discusses how to start a book club and includes the view point of several of her book club friends. The books mentioned on today’s podcast are available for purchase through The Bookshelf: I'd Rather Be Reading by Ann Bogel The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin Becoming by Michelle Obama Writers and Lovers by Lily King Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Educated by Tara Westover We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson The Dry by Jane Harper Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok Recursion by Blake Crouch Wild by Cheryl Strayed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller 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 Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. 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. We are readers.
0:14.0	books. We are readers. Books are an essential part of our lives and of our life stories.
0:28.0	For us, reading isn't just a hobby or a pastime, it is a lifestyle.
0:32.8	We're the kind of people who understand the heartbreak of not having your library
0:36.1	reserves come in before you leave town for vacation and the exhilaration of stumbling upon
0:41.1	the new Louise Penny at your local independent bookstore three whole days before the official publication date.
0:47.0	We know the pain of investing hours of reading time in a book we enjoyed right up until the final chapter's truly terrible resolution, and we know the pleasure of stumbling upon exactly the right book at exactly the right time.
1:00.0	Anne Bockel, I'd rather be reading.
1:04.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
1:08.6	Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm talking about book clubs.
1:13.2	It may seem odd to bring up the power of bookish gatherings
1:16.3	during a season devoid of much gathering at all,
1:19.0	but I couldn't help myself.
1:20.6	It is, whether we realize it or not, the season of fresh starts and newly sharpened pencils of back to school and new beginnings. Book clubs were born out of such a time as this.
1:30.0	So we're going to talk about it.
1:32.0	As a somewhat seasoned book club founder and member, and now a bookstore owner,
1:37.0	who facilitates book clubs all the time,
1:40.0	I've got my own ideas about starting and joining a group of readerly types.
1:44.0	But in between my own thoughts today, you'll be hearing from my fellow book club members past and present,
1:50.1	sharing what it is that keeps them going back to Book Club.
1:53.4	So why did I join Book Club?
1:55.2	Truthfully, the most simple explanation is I love to read and I love being able to
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