Annie B. Jones, ORDINARY TIME: Lessons Learned While Staying Put

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Zibby chats with indie bookstore owner and host of the popular From the Front Porch podcast, Annie B. Jones, about her earnest, graceful, and beautifully written new book, ORDINARY TIME: Lessons Learned While Staying Put. Annie shares her journey from journalist to beloved bookseller in Thomasville, GA, and describes the unexpected beauty she’s found in staying rooted and building a quiet life, challenging the idea that loud lives matter most. Then, she delves into her reflections on small-town life, motherhood, friendship, introversion, and the transformative power of books.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
0:24.0	look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't
0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbmedia.com and follow me on Instagram
0:40.2	at Zibby Owens. Annie B. Jones is the author of Ordinary Time, Lessons Learned, While Staying
0:49.3	Putt. This is also one of my Zivvy's book club picks. Annie B. Jones owns the bookshelf bookstore in
0:56.3	Thomasville, Georgia, and hosts the book review podcast from the front porch. Hi. Hi. How are you?
1:04.1	I'm good. How are you? Good. I love your book wall. I love your book wall. I feel like
1:09.9	actually we are the same person. And the fact that we just showed up on Zoom, like wearing the same outfit and the same background is like no surprise to me.
1:20.8	So fun. I love it. You're right. We totally, we match. This will be fun to see.
1:26.5	Oh my gosh. I'm actually going to jump right into the episode. That's okay. Because I am so obsessed with your book and loved it so much. I love your podcast. Your bookstore. I mean, all of it. And I don't think I've ever related like, related to anyone more than you in ordinary time. So, just thank you. Thank you so much. Well, I'm thrilled to be here, and I'm so grateful for all the work you do for indie bookstores and authors like me. And it's a joy to get to talk to you today. Oh, thank you. And by the way, I saw on your Instagram
2:01.0	congratulations. Baby Lord Jones on his way. Thank you. I can't. I can't believe all the things
2:07.6	happening in 2025. Oh my goodness. Well, having just finished your book and reading all of your
2:14.7	thoughts on motherhood and all of that, like the fact that this is now, like the CODA, is just so perfect.
2:21.4	Yeah.
2:21.9	Thank you.
2:23.0	Okay.
2:23.7	Let's back up.
2:24.7	Ordinary time, lessons learned while staying, but why don't you tell listeners what your book is about?
2:29.5	Absolutely.
2:30.2	So I have lived in or around my hometown my entire life, you know, the exception of college.
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