Episode 103 || Book Club Extravaganza

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Annie and Chris get ready for the Bookshelf's upcoming Book Club Fair by discussing their favorite book club picks for 2017 (so far), including: In Case You Missed It: + Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal + Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff + Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert + This is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison + The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison 2016 Tastemakers: + A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles + Among the Living by Jonathan Rabb + A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman + Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi + Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance + Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Coming in 2017: + The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers (out now) + The Wanderers by Meg Howrey (out March 14) + Himself by Jess Kidd (out March 14) + American Fire by Monica Hesse (out July 11) + The Book that Matters Most by Ann Hood (out now--in paper back August 1) + Hue and Cry at Our House by Benjamin Taylor (out May 23)

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0:00.0	Did I ever tell you that probably within the past year, I kept seeing men with like, you know, a circle-shaped thing in their back pocket.
0:13.5	And, I mean, months I thought it was men walking around with pitch pipes in their back pocket until I realized it was definitely
0:23.3	chewing tobacco. Wouldn't it be a better world? Yeah, don't you think? I do kind of think.
0:35.5	If instead of chewing tobacco men were walking around with pitch pipes.
0:38.6	The world would be a better place for sure.
0:40.9	I don't think I've never even seen a pitch pipe.
0:43.2	I've seen plenty.
0:46.8	Did I ever tell you that probably...
0:52.1	Welcome to episode 103 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:59.5	My name is Chris Jensen, and I'm living in a new world.
1:03.2	And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
1:08.9	Welcome.
1:10.7	Ooh, what a week. Welcome. Woo.
1:11.6	What a week.
1:12.8	What a week.
1:14.4	So here we are in America, and we're going to talk about books that you should read.
1:23.9	Yeah, so every year, the bookshelf has, for the past three years, hosted a book club fair,
1:29.7	which was an idea, I don't really know, I'm sure I stole it from someone.
1:34.4	But basically the idea is that you move to a new community and you want to join a book club,
1:38.5	but you don't know enough about it, or you're in a book club, and you want new book club recommendations,
1:42.6	but you don't know where to get those.
1:44.0	So basically, think science fair meets book club. Basically, two of my favorite things.
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