308 || The Kids‘ Table: Winter

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined by frequent podcast contributor Ashley Sherlock. Ashley is a former Bookshelf staffer and social media expert, as well as Annie’s actual relative. The two are going to share what they’ve been reading, watching, and listening. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase from The Bookshelf: Reading: Joy the Baker on Instagram @joythebaker (Sunday links) Upstream by Mary Oliver The Next Right Thing Guided Journal by Emily P. Freeman These Precious Days by Ann Patchett (article from Harper’s Magazine) First Comes Like by Alisha Rai Brood by Jackie Polzin Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez Watching: Fake Famous on Hulu Brittney Spears Documentary on FX Crocheting tutorials on YouTube Kate McKinnon Saturday Night Live clips on YouTube Sex in the City Encore on Disney+ Dawson’s Creek Listening: Table Manners podcast The Ringer Dish podcast Clubhouse app James Baldwin’s Home Records playlist Ashley’s (her own) Morning playlist Reply All: The Test Kitchen series podcast How I Built This podcast 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 Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Ashley is reading Upstream by Mary Oliver. 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.

Transcript

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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.
0:09.0	What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
0:30.0	John Steinbeck travels with Charlie.
0:45.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,
0:51.0	and today I'm joined by frequent podcast contributor Ashley Sherlock.
0:56.0	Ashley is a former bookshelf staffer and social media expert as well as my actual relative.
1:02.0	Every holiday of our lives we've sat next to or near each other at the kids table, even now that we're well into our 20s and 30s, respectively.
1:11.0	Each season we're going to be sharing what we've been reading, watching, and listening to, plus maybe a favorite purchaser too.
1:18.0	Our vision is for these conversations to be like sitting at the kids table with the relatives you actually like.
1:24.0	Hi Ashley, hello, how's it going?
1:27.0	Welcome back to The From the Front porch.
1:30.0	Thanks.
1:31.0	Or the kids table.
1:33.0	I am a little concerned.
1:34.0	I'm so proud of this name, but I am concerned that people are going to tune in and think we're going to be talking about kids literature, and that is not what's happening today.
1:43.0	No, not quite.
1:44.0	Maybe some days, but.
1:46.0	Yeah, some days we may talk kids lit, but really what it is is.
1:51.0	Yeah, like today, what happens at the kids table?
1:55.0	That's right.
1:56.0	And we're not letting it stay at the kids table.
1:58.0	We're bringing it to you.
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