Episode 333 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 8

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week Annie is back to answer listeners' literary conundrums in round eight of Literary Therapy. The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Falling by TJ Newman Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly Brood by Jackie Polzin I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by Sue Cerulean Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler by E.L. Konigsburg From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. This week, Annie is reading When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor S. Schumann. If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Libro.FM: Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app. Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link: libro.fm/redeem/FRONTPORCH Flodesk: Do you receive a weekly or monthly newsletter from one of your favorite brands? Like maybe From the Front Porch (Or The Bookshelf)... Did you ever wonder, ‘how do they make such gorgeous emails?’ Flodesk is an email marketing service provider that's built for creators, by creators, and it’s easy to use. We’ve been using it for a couple of years now, and I personally love it. And right now you can get 50% off your Flodesk subscription by going to: flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:09.0	When I was a girl with a book in my hand, I could go to a place so deep no one could follow.
0:31.0	Beth Ann Finneley, Heating and Cooling.
0:42.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:48.0	And today, I'm answering listeners' literary conundrums and quandaries like a less pretentious freezer cream.
0:56.0	I love these episodes so much we're making them a regular part of our From the Front porch schedule.
1:02.0	So if you have an issue you'd like to bring to therapy, you can leave me a voicemail.
1:07.0	Just visit fromthefrontportchpodcast.com forward slash contact, then scroll to the middle of the page and leave a message.
1:15.0	No microphone necessary, just tell me your name, where you're from, and your literary problem, and you could be featured in an upcoming episode of From the Front porch.
1:23.0	All of this information is in the show notes, so if you don't remember, no problem, you can go back and click the link and leave me a voicemail.
1:30.0	If you've left me a voicemail and you don't hear your literary conundrum today, that's because we're saving it for an upcoming episode, so never fear.
1:36.0	I love hearing from each and every one of you.
1:39.0	In fact, before we get started today, I want to hear an update from listener Elizabeth.
1:44.0	Back in episode 321, Elizabeth talked about rereading some of her favorite books this summer.
1:50.0	Here's how her experiment went.
1:53.0	Hi, Annie. It's Elizabeth in Kansas City, calling to follow up with you about my summer of rereading.
2:01.0	Overall, I really enjoyed it. I decided to reread five titles and then read a new one, which I think was sort of great motivation for me and also made me a little more selective about what new titles I was going to be reading.
2:16.0	The biggest thing that I learned was that the books I had read most recently and loved that I chose to reread.
2:23.0	I found myself loving even more.
2:26.0	And the books that I remember loving as a child or a young adult in rereading now didn't hold up as well.
2:33.0	I think in the future I will definitely be rereading more, maybe not five in a row, but more.
2:40.0	Sometimes when you finish a book and you think, I just am in the mood for something that made me feel like song of Achilles made me feel.
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