320 || Faith Books, Part Deux

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week Annie is joined by friend and bookstagrammer (@shelfbyshelf) Hunter McLendon to discuss faith books. The books mentioned on today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Home by Marilynne Robinson Lila by Marilynne Robinson Jack by Marilynne Robinson Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi The Trouble With Hating You by Sajni Patel The Mothers by Brit Bennett Here For It by R. Eric Thomas Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker Lit by Mary Karr The Liars Club by Mary Karr Boy Erased by Garrard Conley Middlemarch by George Eliot Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 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 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead and Hunter is reading Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. 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	Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason.
0:28.0	Faith is what makes life bearable with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden startling joys.
0:35.0	Madeline Langle walking on water.
0:43.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelves, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:49.0	And today I'm joined by my friend and fellow reader Hunter McClendon.
0:53.0	We are inspired in part by the works of Marilyn Robinson talking about Facebook's.
0:58.0	And you can't see my air quotes, but what does that phrase even mean and what feelings does it elicit?
1:04.0	This is a conversation I am continually having with the people in my life.
1:07.0	You can hear another take on Facebook's in a previous episode we did on From the Front porch.
1:12.0	That's episode number 244.
1:14.0	But today we're revisiting the topic.
1:17.0	Hey Hunter.
1:18.0	Hello.
1:19.0	I'm so excited to talk about this.
1:22.0	I have to.
1:23.0	I also just had to very quickly say he was so good at this.
1:26.0	And I'm just always amazed every time I just had to say that because I just I don't know.
1:30.0	Anyway, thank you.
1:31.0	It's a little intimidating.
1:32.0	We can see each other.
1:33.0	Like we're not in person, but there's a video aspect to this now.
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