Welcome to Episode 31 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.

And today I'll be sharing with you my reading recap for the month of June.

Before we get started, I just wanted to give you yet another reminder to review us or rank

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you think every rating helps us kind of move up in the iTunes world, which helps other people

find out about us and therefore find out about our store. So if you could do that for us,

we'd really appreciate it. So I was able to read nine books

during June. Most were hits. There were a couple that maybe would be better suited for another

reader, but I thought I would go ahead and share with you what I read during the month of

June, and hopefully you can find a book or two to add to your own to be read list.

So the first book I read was a prayer journal by Flannery O'Connor.

This is a beautiful kind of gift type book. It's very thin. It's actually Flannery O'Connor's prayer journal

from her, I believe, early 20s. So it was around while she was, I think, in college or in Iowa doing

the writer's workshop. It's a thin volume. There's not much to it, except it's Flannery O'Connor, so of course there is.

Of course there is a lot to it. It's her prayers from her early years as a writer, and I loved this book

because I love Flannery O'Connor. I hesitate to say I'm a Flannery O'Connor fan because fan doesn't seem good enough for

Flannery.

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