312 || What Would Susie Read?, Vol. 2

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Annie’s mom Susie joins the podcast this week to discuss books for sensitive readers. The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Summer House by Lauren K. Denton On the Bright Side by Melanie Shankle Stand All the Way Up by Sophie Hudson I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown Everything Beautiful in Its Time by Jenna Bush Hager House Lessons by Erica Bauermeister Will the Circle Be Unbroken? by Sean Dietrich Burnout by Amelia Nagoski and Emily Nagoski A Gentle Answer by Scott Sauls The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff My Vanishing Country by Bakari Sellers What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins 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 Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann and Susie is reading The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin. 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.
0:09.0	The traditions we choose to celebrate say a lot about who we are, and just like houses, they are
0:29.0	like houses, they can be renovated, changed to fit who we are now.
0:34.0	Erica Bauer, my stir, house lessons.
0:38.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:44.0	And today, I'm joined by my mom, Susie Butterworth, for a conversation about PG-Lint.
0:50.0	Welcome back to the podcast, mom.
0:52.0	Happy to be here, Annie.
0:54.0	Okay, so for long time listeners, you're a familiar voice on the podcast, I think.
1:00.0	But for folks who might be new, my mom is Susie.
1:04.0	She was a preschool teacher for 20 years, 20 years.
1:08.0	And now she functions as ShotMom, so she does the bookshelf windows.
1:13.0	She helps with our displays.
1:15.0	And the most recent thing my mom has started doing for the bookshelf is partnering with bookseller Nancy to offer PG-Lint.
1:23.0	Or feel good fiction, feel good nonfiction selections for our monthly subscription service.
1:30.0	So we are subscription service grew a lot in the pandemic.
1:35.0	And we had a lot of readers who requested PG-Lint and Olivia Lucy and I don't always read PG literature.
1:44.0	So let's talk a little bit about mom, what does PG-Lint mean to you?
1:52.0	Well, for one thing, it means it sort of takes me out of what I see and hear in real world.
2:03.0	Although it still can be riveting and very exciting to read.
2:09.0	It's just without too much language, graphic violence.
2:17.0	And it just, I want a hero or a hero when I want someone that decent that comes out on top.
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