299 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 5

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Join Annie this week for a little literary therapy as she answers and consults listeners on their questions and reading conundrums. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf: A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza The Ensemble by Aja Gabel There There by Tommy Orange The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead The Dutch House by Ann Patchett The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi His Only Wife by Peace A. Medie A Burning by Megha Majumdar Jack by Marilynne Robinson Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner Old Lovegood Girls by Gail Godwin The Holdout by Graham Moore Defending Jacob by William Landay You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz (The Undoing on HBO) The Dinner by Herman Koch The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson The Giver by Lois Lowry The Maze Runner by James Dashner The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds John Grisham 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, Annie is reading Anna K by Jenny Lee. 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.
0:30.0	He had left the path. His parents had given him a map and directions, and he had abandoned it all.
0:51.0	Now his heart was so inked dark he could be lost and not know it, and not care, and never know how to find his way back.
0:59.0	Fatina Farheen Mirsa, a place for us.
1:04.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
1:10.0	And it's Thanksgiving. You're listening to this on Thanksgiving, or maybe the day after, or the weekend after.
1:17.0	Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving back in the words of You've Got Meal.
1:22.0	I am thrilled to be here with another edition of Literary Therapy. So we've got four questions this week that I'm going to attempt to answer Frazier Crane's style.
1:31.0	The topics range from books for teenage boys to how do we shut off Instagram? How do we maintain a reading life in the world of Instagram?
1:43.0	So without further ado, let's listen to the first question from Haley.
1:48.0	Hi, Annie. This is Haley in Louisville, Kentucky.
1:51.0	And my bookish dilemma is that I haven't found or read my favorite book of the year so far.
1:58.0	Last year it was Ask Again Yes. The year before that, it was a place for us.
2:04.0	And the year before that, it was a gentleman in Moscow.
2:07.0	These were just standout books that at the end of the year, they were the ones that stood out in my mind,
2:14.0	and we're easy to pick as my top favorite. And I've read so many good books this year. I've read Transcendent Kingdom.
2:23.0	I've read Saving Ruby King and the new Brit Bennett. But I haven't read a book yet that is just my clear cut favorite.
2:35.0	And maybe this is a silly problem to have. But I feel like you and I have really similar reading tastes.
2:41.0	And I was wondering if you could give me some advice and also maybe recommend some of your back list all time favorite books of the year from several years ago.
2:52.0	And I can maybe try a back list book to be my favorite of the year. Thanks.
2:57.0	Haley, the good news is you and I really do have similar reading tastes.
3:02.0	And it sounds like the books you have loved over the past couple of years, I have loved to.
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