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From the Front Porch

293 || Baby-Sitters Back, Alright!

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined by Olivia and Lucy this week to discuss the Baby-Sitters Club books and the enjoyment they've brought during these strange times. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf: Book Bundle one Kristy’s Great Idea Claudia and the Phantom Caller The Truth about Stacey Mary-Anne Saves the Day Dawn and the Impossible Three Kristy’s Big Day Claudia and Mean Janine Boy-Crazy Stacey The Ghost at Dawn’s House A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. 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, I’m reading I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by Sue Cerulean. Olivia is reading Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood. Lucy is reading The National Road by Tom Zoellner. 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 media mail shipping on all your online book 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.

0:10.0

So was I ever glad when Claudia told me Christy wanted to start the club, friends at last I thought, and that's just what I found, they're my friends, and I belong with them.

0:38.0

And in Martin, the truth about Stacey.

0:42.0

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown, Thomasville, Georgia.

0:48.0

And today I'm joined by Bookshelf manager Olivia Schaefer and online sales coordinator Lucy Stoltzwis to talk all about the babysitters club.

0:56.0

Hi, friends.

0:57.0

Hi.

0:58.0

Hi, this is going to be so fun because none of us can see each other, and there are three of us, and this is going to be an experiment to see if we talk over one another.

1:08.0

We do that when we see each other too.

1:12.0

That's true.

1:13.0

Yeah.

1:14.0

That's true.

1:15.0

You should have seen Olivia's face when I was like, we won't be able to see each other while recording.

1:18.0

Like you are going to be downstairs on this computer.

1:22.0

I was like, wait, what?

1:24.0

We haven't done that before.

1:26.0

Yeah, this is new.

1:27.0

Okay.

1:28.0

So the reason I wanted to do this episode is because we have gotten a couple of requests for it.

1:32.0

I think because we do a lot of babysitters club stuff.

1:37.0

We have a book club called our babysitters back.

1:39.0

All right, book club, which I wanted to kind of talk about the idea for that club and kind of why we did that this year.

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