Episode 13 || January Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This episode, Annie reviews the books she read in January (eight in all... hooray!). A complete list of titles and reviews can be found on The Bookshelf store blog and in the latest issue of the Thomasville Townie. Author Celeste Ng has a helpful book club guide on her website, and her novel, Everything I Never Told You, comes out in paperback later this year. A free soundtrack inspired by Donald Miller's new book, Scary Close, is available here. Here's a link to that BookPage article about Scott Blackwood's See How Small. More about Carrie Rollwagen's The Localist can be found here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 13 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:17.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf in downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'll be sharing with you the books that I read in January 2015.
0:26.0	Let's get started.
0:27.0	Every month I'd like to share with our listeners the books that I read in the previous month.
0:38.0	So these are little reviews that I do both for the Thomasville County, our local little downtown newspaper, and on the
0:46.2	bookshelf blog. I also sometimes share these reviews on my personal blog and I've gotten good feedback
0:51.8	from customers and readers who just enjoy getting some
0:56.1	titles to add to their own ever growing book list.
0:59.3	So today I'd like to share with you all the books that I read in January.
1:03.7	January was a really great reading month for me.
1:06.7	I don't know if the holidays had finally slowed down and I was just able to kind of cuddle up with a good book a few nights every week and so I really made a conscious effort Jordan and I both did to turn off the TV a little earlier and maybe read a book instead of watching TV on Netflix and as a result I read I believe
1:27.1	eight books in January and so that is a lot for me normally I try to do a book a week and you know sometimes that happens
1:35.7	sometimes it doesn't but anyway January I read on average about two a week but really the
1:42.2	first part of the month was relatively slow going and that
1:45.2	is not because I wasn't reading anything worthwhile in fact I was reading more
1:50.9	slowly because the book I was reading was so worthwhile.
1:54.0	So the first book I'd like to review for you is
1:57.0	All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer.
2:00.0	This book you've probably already heard about many times, whether it's through friends or book club members or the New York Times book review.
2:08.0	I mean the book has been everywhere.
2:10.0	It was especially popular. I think it came out in the fall of last year and we sold a lot of copies of this around Christmas time
2:17.8	It kind of started to pick up speed when it got nominated for a National Book Award and it made the list of finalists for that. I believe it
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