Episode 346 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 11

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another episode of From the Front Porch! Annie is back to answer your literary dilemmas like a bookish Frasier Crane in volume 11 of Literary Therapy. Before we get started, this is your friendly reminder that From the Front Porch is a production of The Bookshelf, an indie bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia. We’re in the throes of our second holiday shopping season held during a pandemic, and remarkably, our spirits are high. As you support indies like ours this holiday season, please remember to shop early, to be open to our suggestions when your first book preference might already be back-ordered, and to trust our deadlines. This year, December 1 is the deadline to purchase something from us and have it arrive by Christmas. The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano Normal People by Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Finding Freedom by Erin French Educated by Tara Westover So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel Ecology of a Cracker Child by Janisse Ray Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson (currently unavailable) Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson (currently unavailable) The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington Where I Come From by Rick Bragg Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Black, White, and the Grey by Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny (currently unavailable) Misfortune of Marion Palm by Emily Culliton (currently unavailable) Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer Limelight by Amy Poppel Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen (currently unavailable) This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith 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. Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com. This week, Annie is reading Taste by Stanley Tucci. If you liked what you heard in 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 and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. 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 su

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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.
0:25.0	What recurs more often than not is possibility.
0:28.0	Opportunity, odds, the groundwork laid, the conditions met, the stars aligned, the critical mass reached.
0:38.0	What happens then may go either way.
0:40.0	One generation's unforgivable error becomes the next generation's act of grace.
0:46.0	One generation's epic lament becomes the next generation's comic relief.
0:52.0	One generation's reconciliation becomes the next generation's rift.
0:57.0	The same threads surface again and again, but the weave is riddled with deviation, tessellation, transformation.
1:05.0	No design is replicated verbatim. This is the ecstasy of life.
1:13.0	Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins.
1:19.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
1:24.0	And this week I'm getting out a pencil and paper, settling in a comfy chair across from a metaphorical couch,
1:30.0	and answering your literary conundrums and questions like a bookish Frazier Crane.
1:36.0	Before we get started, this is your friendly reminder that From the Front Porch is a production of the bookshelf, an indie bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia.
1:43.0	We are in the throes of our second holiday shopping season held during a pandemic, and remarkably our spirits are high, I promise.
1:51.0	As you support Indies like ours this holiday season, please remember to shop early,
1:56.0	to be open to our suggestions when your first book preference might already be backordered, and to trust our deadlines.
2:03.0	This year, December 1st is the deadline to purchase something from us online and have it arrived by Christmas.
2:09.0	We think this is early enough to work around the postal services issues, but also late enough to allow you some shopping time.
2:16.0	Thanks for supporting our small business and others like us when you shop this holiday season.
2:21.0	If you're new here, Literary Therapy is a series of episodes devoted to addressing your literary concerns.
2:28.0	If you have an issue you'd like me to address on air, I'd love for you to leave me a voicemail.
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