323 || Nostalgia Reading

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week the co-hosts of The Bookshelf’s I Want It That YA book club, Lucy Stoltzfus, also The Bookshelf's online sales coordinator and Olivia Schaffer, shop manager, join Annie to discuss nostalgia reading. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase at The Bookshelf: Thwonk by Joan Bauer 145th Street by Walter Dean Myers Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney Anastasia's Chosen Career by Lois Lowry DRAT! We're Rats by Jahnna N. Malcolm The Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin Bloomability by Sharon Creech Baby-Stitting Is a Dangerous Job by Willo Davis Roberts 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 Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby. Olivia is reading Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger, and Lucy is reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. 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
0:07.8	in the South.
0:24.9	When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other
0:29.3	reading in your whole life does.
0:32.1	Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail.
0:45.8	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:50.0	Thomasville, Georgia, and today we're talking about nostalgia reading.
0:54.3	I'm joined by my co-hosts of the bookshelves.
0:56.7	I want it that YA book club, Lucy Stoltzfus and Olivia Schaefer.
1:01.3	Lucy is the online sales coordinator for the bookshelf and Olivia is our shop manager.
1:06.5	Hi guys.
1:07.5	Hello.
1:08.5	Hey.
1:09.8	I am so excited to talk about this today because we are almost like exactly a year removed
1:17.5	as of recording from the launch of babysitters back all right.
1:23.0	So that is the book club we launched a year ago.
1:25.9	It was like peak pandemic, trying to get excited or feel joyful about anything.
1:32.3	One of the few things that had brought me joy in March, April of last year was rereading
1:38.3	bloom ability and an old fashioned girl, two books from my childhood.
1:44.3	And I then saw that the babysitters club was becoming a Netflix like adapted TV show.
1:50.7	And I approached you, Olivia, one day I have a very vivid memory of this.
1:54.5	I like came into the bookshelf.
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