Episode 363 || I’ll Read What She’s Reading
From the Front Porch
The Bookshelf Thomasville
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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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 | Music |
| 0:25.0 | Rom coms are, practically by definition, a hopeful genre. |
| 0:29.0 | They tell you that you should be yourself without apology or self-consciousness, hang on to your dreams, even when they don't make sense, |
| 0:36.0 | and, above all, hold out for true love because it always might be just around the corner. |
| 0:43.0 | Scott Mezlo from Hollywood with Love |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, |
| 0:54.0 | and this week we're talking Nora Efron and One True Parings, Meet Cutes and Happy Endings. |
| 0:59.0 | That's right, it's time to discuss and dissect the occasionally maligned but often adored romantic comedy. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm joined today by the Bookshelf's resident rom com expert and our events and marketing coordinator, Mary Catherine. |
| 1:11.0 | Hi, Mary Catherine. |
| 1:12.0 | Hello. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm so glad you're joining us today. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:16.0 | Thank you, I'm very excited to be here. |
| 1:19.0 | So I wanted to talk with you about this, but really you wanted to talk to me about this. |
| 1:24.0 | This was an idea you had, I think last fall or before Christmas or something and we're finally kind of watching it come to fruition. |
| 1:33.0 | We at the Bookshelf staff know that rom coms are your favorite genre or one of your preferred genres. |
| 1:39.0 | So I'm curious about your history with romantic comedies, not just in literature, but in film too, because you and I |
| 1:46.0 | I think approach this similarly, but at the same time differently. |
| 1:49.0 | We're different ages. |
| 1:50.0 | We came of age during different rom com eras. |
| 1:53.0 | So I'm curious what's kind of your history with the romantic comedy. |
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