Episode 338 || Kids Table Fall

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today Annie is joined by her cousin and frequent Bookshelf collaborator, Ashley Sherlock. Every season, they sit down at the metaphorical kids’ table to chat about what they’re reading, watching, listening to, and buying. The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead ”Adrift” by Mark Nepo (This is a poem from this book) Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind by Jennifer Senior Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer J.Crew Factory jeans Bookshelf reusable grocery bags UpWest The Common Room 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 Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer and Ashley is reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. 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	Perhaps most crucially, an election map can't tell you what people are actually like.
0:30.0	It doesn't even tell you what the people who consistently vote for charlatans and scoundrels are actually like.
0:36.0	Human beings are always more complex than the way they vote could ever suggest.
0:41.0	People can be good and bad, brilliant and hopelessly short-sighted, empathetic and willfully blind.
0:48.0	This is both the glory and the tragedy of human nature.
0:52.0	We are not simple creatures.
0:55.0	Margaret Rinkle, Graceland at last.
1:00.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
1:06.0	And today, I'm joined by my cousin and frequent bookshelf collaborator, Ashley Sherlock.
1:11.0	Every season, Ashley and I sit down at the metaphorical kids' table to chat about what we're reading, watching, listening to, and maybe even buying.
1:20.0	Hi, Ashley.
1:21.0	Hi again.
1:23.0	Happy fall, y'all.
1:25.0	It's here, it's here.
1:28.0	Is it here?
1:29.0	Right now, I'm sitting in my super air-conditioned little sunroom and my windows are completely filled with condensation because it's really not.
1:39.0	I feel like I entered the chat, but mentally we are there.
1:43.0	Mentally we're there.
1:44.0	I did want to do like a mental health check on you because I know you love summer and summer's over.
1:51.0	I am really sad about summer being over.
1:53.0	I'm not going to lie.
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