329 || Jane Austen Revisited

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week Annie is joined by friend, Bookstagrammer (@shelfbyshelf) and frequent co-host, Hunter McLendon to talk all things Jane Austen! The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen Persuasion by Jane Austen Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Emma by Jane Austen The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner The Prayers of Jane Austen by Jane Austen Karen Swallow Prior, “A Novel Approach to Virtue”: https://www.ttf.org/portfolios/online-conversation-reading-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 Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang. Hunter is reading Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. 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 in the South.
0:09.0	The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
0:32.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm reflecting on the six months I've spent with Jane Austen and what the next six might hold.
0:52.0	Joining me for today's conversation is my frequent co-host and reading buddy Hunter McClendon, also known as Shelf by Shelf on Instagram.
1:00.0	Hi Hunter. Hello. Welcome back. It's good to be back also every time I hear the word stupid, and I know it's just being immature, but I giggle so hard.
1:12.0	Right, and isn't it funny coming out of Jane Austen mouth like imagining because, and it's probably because I was not allowed to say stupid growing up.
1:20.0	That was like a word, the Butterworth children were not allowed to say. And so even still now when somebody says it, it's almost shocking.
1:27.0	Like even though, I mean, I feel like I say it, I don't know, it's just funny to hear it in what I imagine Jane Austen's voice would be.
1:35.0	I agree.
1:36.0	Okay, so you were one of the first people I told that I was reading Jane Austen this year because you and I did this feels forever ago by the way.
1:45.0	But we did that podcast episode about our reading intentions for the year.
1:49.0	And how I really wanted to pick an author I focused on every year and this year I wanted it to be Jane Austen.
1:55.0	So we're six months in heading into seven.
1:59.0	And I thought I would be a good time to kind of touch base and tell you kind of where I'm at in my Jane Austen journey.
2:05.0	And I wanted to talk to you specifically because if I'm not mistaken, you did something similar with Jane Austen last year.
2:15.0	Is that right or am I misremembering?
2:17.0	I read like four, I think of her books last year.
2:21.0	Okay.
2:22.0	So like I read a good bit of them.
2:24.0	I feel like I don't know how many she has.
2:26.0	Maybe six, I think.
2:28.0	Okay.
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