Episode 336 || September New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Annie talks with Olivia and Lucy about the new releases you don’t want to miss this month The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Matrix by Lauren Groff Fault Lines by Emily Itami Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlake Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber Pony by RJ Palacio Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray Last Graduate by Naomi Novik Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos Bewilderment by Richard Powers Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System by Jarrett Adams Mennonite Valley Girl: A Wayward Coming of Age by Carla Funk The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar 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 below. 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 reading All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor. Olivia is reading Last Graduate by Naomi Novik. Lucy is reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. 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.

Transcript

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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	Only a fool would think that anything they've done was on their own tabby, Miss Gretchen said. Nobody makes it on their own, at least not anywhere worthwhile.
0:33.0	Jane Allen, Black Girls Must Die Exhausted.
0:45.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today, Olivia, Lucy, and I are back with September's new release roundup.
0:56.0	We're discussing our favorite newly released titles of the month, highlighting new books without overwhelming your maybe already daunting TBR list. Welcome back, guys.
1:06.0	Hey, hello.
1:09.0	I'm so glad you're back. As a reminder, Olivia is our retail floor manager at the Bookshelf, and Lucy is our online sales manager at the Bookshelf, and they also do shelf subscriptions and young adult book club and all kinds of fun things.
1:24.0	And each of our individual reading tastes will shine through in the books that we're highlighting today.
1:29.0	I feel like it's a lot of books, September's a big ol' release month.
1:34.0	It feels like a lot of well-known author releases this month.
1:39.0	Yes, and I did. There are some really good debuts coming out, but I had a hard time. I really had to work to narrow down. September and October are super big.
1:47.0	They always are, but I still feel like we're facing delays from last from COVID, like I feel like we're still playing catch up in the publishing world.
1:55.0	So, okay, I'm going to start. We're going to go round robin.
1:59.0	My first one is Olivia, great segue. I should have really picked up on it.
2:03.0	My first book is by very well-known author, Lauren Groff. Her book, Matrix, comes out on September 7th.
2:10.0	I, at first, hesitated to put this on my list because I also think this is a Lucy type book.
2:15.0	I started reading it this week. I do love it. I was worried. I kept putting my copy is from Winter Institute.
2:23.0	Like, my copy is a Winter Institute ARC that I just now picked up because I've been nervous because I really love fates and theories.
2:31.0	I also liked the short story collection, Florida. Lauren Groff is a literary fiction, national book or finalist.
2:39.0	Like, she is a stellar writer, and I love what she does, but this does feel like a bit of a departure for her.
2:45.0	So, it is more historical fiction and, like, deep, deep historical fiction set in medieval France.
2:53.0	And it is about a young woman who becomes a nun against her will.
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