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From the Front Porch

Episode 109 || March Madness 2017

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Annie sits down with her husband Jordan for their annual March Madness discussion. This year's book bracket includes The Bookshelf's "sweet sixteen" -- the  16 bestselling books of the past 12 months.  Magnolia Story Present Over Perfect Seven Brief Lessons in Physics When Breath Becomes Air Killing the Rising Sun Alexander Hamilton Tribal Hillbilly Elegy The Underground Railroad A Gentleman in Moscow Fates and Furies All the Light We Cannot See A Man Called Ove Me Before You Harry Potter and the Cursed Child The After Party Follow The Bookshelf on Instagram to cast votes for your favorite books during our March Madness celebration, or -- if you're a college basketball fan -- compete against friends in ESPN's bracket challenge.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you read all these?

0:05.7

Have you read all these?

0:07.5

I like the Fifth Amendment.

0:12.9

Welcome to episode 109 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.

0:21.4

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown

0:25.9

Thomasville, Georgia. And today, Chris is never here today.

0:32.9

The office?

0:34.0

That's from the office. Chris and I keep kind of being ships passing in the night.

0:39.3

So we will both be recording the next episode of From the Front Porch.

0:43.5

But in the meantime, we are bringing you one of our favorite annual episodes, or I guess

0:47.9

it's one of my favorite annual episodes, our March Madness episode featuring my husband, Jordan Jones. Hi. Hey, Jordan. I'm back. Welcome back to the podcast. It seems like we do this more than a year at a time. It seems like we're doing these things quarterly. Is life just flying? I think life's just flying. I think it's been a while. And since you have been on the podcast, it's actually, we've actually added several more listeners.

1:13.2

So the pressure is on.

1:14.3

But why don't you tell folks who you are and what you do?

1:18.6

So my name is Jordan Jones.

1:20.2

I am the husband in this marriage and co-owner of the bookshelf.

1:26.9

And I also am a lawyer.

1:29.5

I do election law.

1:30.7

I work for the Florida Secretary of State, and that is never a dull moment.

1:35.4

And I like the Myers-Briggs type indicator.

1:39.4

So I like personality typing and Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and disc golf.

1:45.2

This is a really nerdy house.

1:47.4

Yes, yes it is.

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