331 || July Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this week’s episode, Annie recaps her July reads. The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein Survive the Night by Riley Sager New Girl in Little Cove by Damhnait Monoghan You Have a Match by Emma Lord Falling by T.J. Newman Millennial Nuns by the Daughters of Saint Paul My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang 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 Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King. 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
0:08.0	in the South.
0:24.9	That was in moments like this that Mama's eyes filled with an inscrutable gaze, one of
0:30.0	joy and sadness, love and despair all at once.
0:34.9	Only looking back at the scene through an adult lens, do I see in the cracks of her face
0:39.4	the sweet pain Mama must have felt in those moments.
0:43.5	Gratitude for the little she had, heartbreak in meeting it, confusion over what our lives
0:50.0	had become.
0:52.2	I am Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
1:00.9	Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm recapping the books I read in July.
1:06.9	It is to me very hard to believe that we are already approaching the hardest month of
1:12.5	the summer for me personally, it's just hard to believe that August is right around
1:16.2	the corner.
1:17.2	We are going to be doing some changes to the store's point of sale system to our store
1:21.8	website and so there's a lot kind of looming in August.
1:26.2	But first we have to recap and look back at July, which was a very full month.
1:30.4	I don't think when I first like plotted out my summer, I really took stock of how much
1:37.4	I would be doing and what an adjustment it was from last summer and what we were all
1:42.4	doing last summer and so I was worried my reading kind of got put on the back burner this
1:48.2	month.
1:49.2	But instead when I looked, I realized I'd read quite a few books.
1:52.6	I just wound up kind of spacing them out a little bit.
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