Episode 347 || Books You Might Have Missed

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is talking with frequent guest and friend Hunter Mclendon (you might know him as @shelfbyshelf on Instagram). They are evaluating their reading year and sharing some favorite titles that might have gotten lost in the 2021 chaos. 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: Shoutin’ in the Fire by Dante Stewart Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu Cheat Day by Liv Stratman Love Like That by Emma Duffy-Comparone (Currently back-ordered) Prayers for the People by Terry Stokes With Teeth by Krista Arnett The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clement and Onjuli Datta Revival Season by Monica West Palm Beach by Mary Adkins The Survivors by Alex Schulman Embassy Wife by Katie Crouch Virtue by Hermione Hoby All’s Well by Mona Awad (Currently back-ordered) Image Control by Patrick Nathan The Natural Mother of The Child by Krys Malcom Belc Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks Ramage Sarahland by Sam Cohen Let’s Get Back To The Party by Zak Salih 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 Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans. 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 supports the community. All you need is a smartphone 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

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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	Our lives are not just resistance. Our lives are not just lessons. We are not heroes. We are not villains. We are human. As beautiful as we are terrible.
0:37.0	Dante Stewart, shouting in the fire.
0:45.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomas, Georgia.
0:51.0	And this week, I'm joined by frequent guest and friend Hunter McClendon. You might know him as shelf by shelf on Instagram.
0:57.0	Hunter and I are evaluating our reading year and sharing some favorite titles we think might have gotten lost in the 2021 chaos.
1:05.0	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.
1:12.0	We're in the throes of our second holiday shopping season held during a pandemic, and remarkably, we're doing okay.
1:19.0	As you support indie bookstores like ours this holiday season, please remember to shop early, to shop kind, to be open to our suggestions when your first book preference might already be backordered and to trust our deadlines.
1:33.0	This year December 1st is the deadline to purchase something from us and have it arrived by Christmas.
1:38.0	We think this is early enough to work around the postal services issues, but also late enough to allow you some shopping time.
1:44.0	Thanks for supporting our small business and others like us when you shop this holiday season.
1:50.0	Hi Hunter.
1:51.0	Hello.
1:52.0	Welcome back to the show.
1:55.0	It's so funny.
1:56.0	Like I act like even though we do that well because we I don't know because I haven't been on here as much this year as I've been on the conqueror classic on the patreon.
2:04.0	Yes.
2:05.0	But because it's every month, I still feel like it's a well, you know, yes, and we did this is this feels this feels like old hat by now as we close out, believe it or not, as we close out 2021, it's hard to believe.
2:17.0	So we last spoke this summer about like our top 10 of the year.
2:22.0	And if you are listening and you want to hear my and hunters legitimate in the moment reactions to our top 10 of the year, you can find that conversation on patreon.
2:33.0	But today, what I really wanted to talk about is what books you think people might have missed in 2021 because we're closing out the year.
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