Welcome to episode 16 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf in downtown Thomasville, Georgia.

In this episode, I'll be recapping my February

reads and letting you know what should be on your nightstand this month. Let's go

ahead and get started. This is the monthly episode of the podcast where I recap the books I've read in the

previous month. So we are finally entering March. Fingers cross, that spring is on its way. and I want to share with you the books that I read in

February. So February is my birth month, my birthday is February 2nd and I am happy to report that I spent most of the month

reading books that I knew I would enjoy. So normally because of my job running the bookstore I try to read a wide range of

fiction non-fiction one of my New Year's resolutions was to read more

diversely so books by diverse authors, people that I might normally not read their

perspective, and I'm hoping to continue that in March.

I'm hoping to read more historical non-fiction.

I think Eric Larson's new book is going to be

on my March to be read list. But for February I wanted to really enjoy what I was

reading, not to say that those books are enjoyable but

February I wanted to kind of be a fun month of reading so in January I tackled eight

books finished eight books and February I kept going strong with six books which I think is pretty good for a for a shorter month so

Let me go ahead and tell you that the first book I read or finished in February.

I started it in January, but didn't finish till February,

was the smartest kids in the world by Amanda Ripley.

Ripley is a journalist.

I believe she has written for Time magazine, and she kind of put off reporting

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