327 || June Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week Annie recaps her June reads. The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson (listed on Libro.fm) The Royals Next Door by Karina Halle Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen Cheat Day by Liv Stratman Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano The Layover by Lacie Waldon Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 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 Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer. Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com. 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
0:08.1	in the South.
0:24.6	What if the meaning of life on Earth is not eternal progress towards some unspecified
0:29.2	goal, the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development
0:34.6	of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms?
0:38.5	What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of
0:43.3	life remains the same always, just to live and be with other people?
0:49.0	Sally Rooney, beautiful world, where are you?
0:53.2	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:57.5	Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm recapping the books I read in June.
1:02.9	I read a lot of books in June, and they all kind of ran the game in terms of genre and
1:08.6	even in terms of how I read them.
1:10.0	I listened to a couple of audiobooks this season or this month, and anyway, I think it's
1:15.6	best that we just kind of dive right in because there are so many.
1:18.4	So the first book I finished in June was The Reckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson.
1:24.1	This was recommended to me by Courtney, who you will hear on the podcast occasionally
1:27.9	on the casting call episodes.
1:29.8	She's also our Royals correspondent, and then Aaron Fielding, who is our online sales
1:35.8	coordinator at the bookshelf, and she had listened to this book, so had Courtney, and they both
1:40.4	recommended it to me.
1:42.3	I was familiar with Casey Wilson.
1:43.8	She's an actress.
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