Episode 358 || January Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie is recapping all of the books she read in January. Shorter versions of these reviews can be found on Annie’s personal Instagram page. The books mentioned in today’s episode are available for purchase at The Bookshelf’s website and there’s a Reading Recap bundle featuring Annie’s three favorite titles from this month’s readings, available at a discounted price. You can find links to the books mentioned in this episode below: When You Get a Chance by Emma Lord You Have a Match by Emma Lord Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades The Mothers by Brit Bennett Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Dreaming the Beatles by Rob Sheffield (Back-ordered) Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband by Lizzie Damiola Blackburn The Maid by Nita Prose Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford 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 Studio D Podcast Production for the production of From the Front Porch and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. This week, Annie is listening to Going There by Katie Couric on Libro.FM. If you’d like to support From the Front Porch, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Your input helps us make the show even better and reach new listeners. All you have to do is open up the Podcast App on your phone, look for From the Front Porch, scroll down until you see ‘Write a Review’ and tell us what you think. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us for $5 a month on Patreon, where you can follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic and participate in live video Q&As in our monthly lunch break sessions. 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 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 in the South.
0:08.0	We don't have to grieve only those we know. Sometimes we grieve for that which was lost, that which was never allowed to be.
0:34.0	Jamie Ford, the many daughters of A Fong Boy.
0:40.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:46.0	And this week I'm recapping the books I read in January.
0:50.0	If you are a new listener of From the Front porch, welcome. I recap the books I read each month here on the podcast.
0:57.0	And shorter versions of these reviews can be found on my personal Instagram at AnnieBJones05.
1:04.0	All the books I'll be sharing about today are available for purchase on the Bookshelf website.
1:09.0	That's www.BookshelfThomasville.com and there is a reading recap bundle featuring my three favorite titles from this month's readings available at a discounted price for From the Front porch listeners.
1:22.0	You can learn more details at the end of today's episode or just go to our show notes and go to the Bookshelf website to access this month's bundle.
1:30.0	Now onto the books that I read in January. I get really excited every time we start a new year.
1:38.0	And maybe that's a little silly given the current circumstances of the world.
1:42.0	But I still got really excited when the calendar page flipped to 2022.
1:46.0	And I could kind of evaluate what worked about my reading life in 2021, what didn't work, and what I wanted my reading life to look like in 2022.
1:54.0	You heard a little bit about my reading resolutions in last week's episode with Hunter.
1:59.0	But what I think is really fun is to then look at January and see how those reading resolutions and intentions affected my reading life this month.
2:07.0	I wound up reading 10 books this month. I incorporated audio books into my reading diet. That's something I did a lot in 2021 that worked for me.
2:15.0	And so I continued that this month. And I also read a wide range. I felt like of genres, new releases, a backless title.
2:23.0	Definitely a very different reading rhythm than I was experiencing, especially in the latter parts of 2021.
2:30.0	And I think that will always be true for my personal reading life. The latter part of the year is always more hectic and busy.
2:36.0	And so my reading life certainly looks quite different at the end of the year than it does at the beginning.
2:40.0	But it's really gratifying to kind of see how my reading resolutions have already affected my reading life this month.
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