Episode 353 || Thank You

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is saying thank you. Here are the links to the poems mentioned in this episode: “What the Living Do” by Marie Howe “Meditations in an Emergency” by Cameron Awkward-Rich 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 Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. 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 in the new year! 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 Flodesk subscription by going to: flodesk.com/c/THEFRONTPORCH

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life
0:08.1	in the South.
0:24.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:28.4	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm saying thank you.
0:33.6	Hi friends, happy end of December.
0:36.8	You made it.
0:37.8	We're doing it.
0:38.8	It's going to be a new year.
0:40.0	I'm excited and happy and sad and filled with all the bittersweet emotions that I think
0:47.5	accompany the end of the year, right?
0:50.9	We have endured a global pandemic.
0:54.7	The Bookshelf, a small business, has survived yet another year.
0:59.8	And so I'm feeling immensely grateful and also very tired.
1:04.1	And I'm sure you are too.
1:05.4	And so I just wanted to say thank you for what this year has held.
1:10.9	The Bookshelf has grown since spring of 2020.
1:15.6	We have expanded our team.
1:17.7	I'm thinking of staffers like Erin who came on board at the beginning of 2021 to become
1:23.5	our online sales and shipping associate because it became a parent that we needed an in-store
1:28.9	person to help with all the online orders that have not gone away.
1:33.0	They started, you know, we've done online sales a long time, but they really grew in
1:37.1	2020.
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