Episode 128 || Love It or Loathe It, Vol. 8

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It's a book club-style discussion about Patricia Lockwood's new memoir, Priestdaddy. Annie and regular podcast contributors Emily McKenna (of You're Maker) and Hunter McLendon discuss what they loved and loathed about Lockwood's poetic style, her relationship with her parents, and her complicated upbringing in the Catholic faith. You can purchase Priestdaddy here. Other books mentioned include: Liars Club Prozac Nation BossyPants Yes Please Is Everyone Hanging out without Me The Essex Serpent

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 128 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:09.5	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:15.4	And it's time for a love it or loathe episode, which means my co-host, Chris, is missing today, but never fear
0:22.1	because we have two really great voices who will be on the podcast, joining me for a conversation
0:27.4	on Patricia Lockwood's new memoir, priest daddy. Before we get started, a couple of important
0:33.6	announcements. The first is that we are one as of today recording today. We are just one
0:39.3	iTunes review away from 150s. So if you're listening to this and you want and feel inclined to leave
0:47.3	an iTunes review, please do that. You can do that on iTunes. Just leave us a quick review. Let us know what you
0:52.2	think so that we can maybe send you
0:54.6	a little something special for being our 150th reviewer. So thank you for all of the kind things
1:00.2	you have had to say about the podcast. We love doing this, but it's also really nice to know you love
1:06.0	that we're doing it. So it's something that we certainly enjoy, but it's also nice to know that you
1:10.5	enjoy hearing from us every to know that you enjoy hearing
1:11.0	from us every week and that you trust our book recommendations and like hearing what we have to say.
1:16.2	So thank you. Thank you. Words cannot express really enough how grateful we are for your
1:21.4	commitment to supporting our small business and to listen to what we have to say. So thank you. The second thing
1:30.1	I wanted to share is so many of our listeners are long distance. And so if you are listening to this
1:35.2	outside of the South Georgia, kind of North Florida area, I especially wanted to let you know that
1:41.1	starting in September, we are having monthly shelf subscriptions.
1:45.7	These are basically the bookshelf's Book a Month Club. If you are familiar with the Book of
1:51.6	the Month Club concept, basically each of our six staff members will be picking our favorite books
1:56.7	of the month, so our favorite newly released titles. And then you can sign up to join our shelf subscriptions, and we will send you our favorite
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