Welcome to episode 22 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 Book Shelf in downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'll be sharing with you what was on my nightstand during the month of March.

So let's get started.

Hi everybody, I'm doing the podcast solo today so I thought I would share with you the books I read in March and give you a little recap and let you know kind of the books I think you might want to add to your list this spring.

We have almost made it, or I guess we have made it through a quarter of the year and I've read some really

great books this year.

Several of those came last month. So the first book I read was Ghetto Side by journalist Jill, I believe her last name is pronounced Levi, but it's L-E-O-V-Y for those of you googling out there.

I started Ghetto Side back in February so if you've been following along my blog or my Instagram or the bookshelf blog or

Instagram, then you've probably heard me mention this book. It came out in

February. It was briefly on the New York Times bestseller list, but I think it deserves a lot of attention

especially with current events happening in our country.

It's a really relevant important book. It takes a while to get through and

that's not because of anything the author does incorrectly.

In fact, it's just heavy material.

It actually covers the current urban crime epidemic

in Los Angeles County.

Nearly every day, someone is killed in an act of violence there.

And instead of this just being a bunch of statistical information,

even though that is kind of woven

throughout the story.

Jill, I think because of her journalistic background,

can give faces to the names of the victims

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