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From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined by one of her favorite members of her family’s kids’ table, Ashley Sherlock. Ashley’s the former events coordinator at The Bookshelf, a frequent From the Front Porch contributor, and a pop culture enthusiast, so she’s the perfect person to talk to about holiday reading and watching. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf: Ten Blind Dates by Ashley Elston The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss Recommended for You by Laura Silverman All About Us by Tom Ellen Let It Snow by John Green, Lauren Myracle, and Maureen Johnson Jo & Laurie by Margaret Stohl and Melissa de la Cruz Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller One Day in December by Josie Silver 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. 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 Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson. Ashley’s reading The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. 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.
0:08.0	Is there no privacy in this family? Everyone at the table answers. No, Ashley Elston, ten blind dates.
0:34.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:44.0	And this week, I'm joined by one of my favorite members of my family's kids' table, Ashley Sherlock.
0:50.0	Ashley is the former events coordinator at the Bookshelf, a frequent from the Front porch contributor and a pop culture enthusiast.
0:56.0	So she's the perfect person to talk to about holiday reading and watching.
1:00.0	Hey, Ashley. Hello. I started this episode with a quote that I understand is not necessarily poignant nor meaningful, but it felt like our family in a nutshell.
1:12.0	It's perfect. It made me laugh out loud as did your little introduction of our kids' table.
1:18.0	So many memories. Our kids' table that is now the youngest person the kids' table is 23.
1:24.0	24. So they're getting a real kid's table, but here we are.
1:36.0	That's okay. I'm okay with it.
1:40.0	So, and we were just talking off air about how the holidays don't look anything like they're going to look, even our own family is not really hosting their normal Thanksgiving.
1:50.0	We're going to make decisions about traveling. Nothing's very fun.
1:54.0	So we're going to turn our attention to really fun books and fun and cheesy movies and TV shows. And we're going to talk about those today.
2:03.0	Let's do it.
2:05.0	Okay. So here was my idea. You came on the podcast a couple.
2:09.0	I don't know a month or so ago. And what we did was we paired TV shows with books, right? Isn't that what we did?
2:16.0	Yes, probably longer than a month ago, but time.
2:21.0	Time. It's time. Okay. So you're right. That was probably months ago plural. It's okay.
2:27.0	So what inspired this will get to it. But I watched a delightfully cheesy rom com show that's like better in my opinion than Hallmark. Most of the listeners, I think know where I stand on Hallmark.
2:42.0	But it was so utterly enjoyable. And I watched it earlier than ever. I never watched Christmas stuff in November ever.
2:49.0	But here we are. I watched it. And I thought I've got to tell the world about this.
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