304 || Reading Resolutions 2021

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We are back! This week Annie is joined by frequent guest, good friend and bookstagrammer of @shelfbyshelf, Hunter McClendon. The two will discuss their 2021 reading resolutions. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase at The Bookshelf: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Persuasion by Jane Austen Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Emma by Jane Austen Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford The Removed by Brandon Hobson Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson The Round House by Louise Edrich Middlemarch by George Eliot Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Moby Dick by Herman Melville Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust Swan’s Way by Marcel Proust Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley Jesus and John Wayne by Kristen Kobes Du Mez The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Bloomability by Sharon Creech 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 The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin and Hunter is reading Let’s Get Back to the Party by Zak Salih. 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	My idea of good company, Mr. Elliott, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation. That is what I call good company.
0:34.0	Jane Austin Persuasion.
0:43.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm back.
0:50.0	I'm joined by Hunter McClendon, who is the definition of good company. Hunter is behind the popular books to gram account at shelf by shelf, and he's a good friend of the bookshelf and of me.
1:01.0	We are belatedly ringing in the new year today with our very own reading resolutions and aspirations for 2021.
1:08.0	Hi Hunter.
1:09.0	Hello.
1:10.0	Welcome back.
1:12.0	I can tell, I can tell whenever it's been a minute because like I'm like grinning from ear to ear, like Christmas forget about it.
1:19.0	Like my favorite.
1:23.0	Oh, it has been I feel like I haven't talked to you in weeks because Christmas. I mean, we texted and stuff, but it's been it's been a hot minute.
1:29.0	And I haven't recorded a podcast episode in four weeks, so I feel a little rusty, but we're here and we're alive and in 2021.
1:39.0	I mean, I'm feeling very Hamilton about it, but we are lucky to be alive right now. So so welcome back.
1:46.0	I'm so true.
1:49.0	Okay, so we are today going to talk our way through some reading resolutions.
1:55.0	I try to set resolutions or goals every year.
1:59.0	I will admit that in 2020 and then now 2021, it has been hard to kind of predict or gauge what the week's days months hold.
2:10.0	So resolutions have been a little harder, but I still made some and I always like to make some reading resolutions and goals.
2:17.0	So I'm curious.
2:19.0	Let's talk past resolutions and goals first. Have you made like, I don't know quantity goals or things like that in the past for your reading life?
2:27.0	Yeah, whenever whenever I like first graduated high school and I was like getting back into reading, I was like, I want to read a book a week.
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