Episode 368 || Backlist Book Club: Beloved

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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We’re bringing back one of our favorite podcast series, Backlist Book Club! In today’s episode of From the Front Porch, Annie and Hunter Mclendon @shelfbyshelf are discussing the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Beloved by Toni Morrison. The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Summer I Turned Pretty Book Club Beloved by Toni Morrison Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Less by Andrew Sean Greer This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley Caul Baby by Morgan Jerkins The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin 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, The 101st annual Rose Show and Festival, here in Thomasville, Georgia. If you want to come for the weekend and experience the flowers, fun, food, and shopping in beautiful Thomasville GA, plan your visit at thomasvillega.com. This week Annie is reading Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow. Hunter is reading Tracy Flick Can’t Win by Tom Perrotta. 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. Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Angie Erickson, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie johnson and Kate Johnston Tucker. 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 community. All you need is a smart phone 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: https://tidd.ly/3C2zVbb 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

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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	A bit by bit, at 124 and in the clearing, along with the others, she had claimed herself.
0:30.0	Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Tony Morrison, beloved.
0:38.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,
0:44.0	and this week we're bringing back one of our favorite podcast series, Backlist Book Club.
0:48.0	In today's episode, Hunter McClendon and I are discussing the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Beloved, by Tony Morrison.
0:54.0	Before we get started, I wanted to extend another reminder about our Jenny Han summer book club.
0:59.0	You may remember that Olivia, Lucy, and I first gathered over Zoom back in 2020, peak pandemic to read the babysitters' club books.
1:06.0	Then in 2021, we continued our nostalgia reading with Why Lit from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.
1:13.0	And now this summer, we're kind of wrapping everything up by reading Jenny Han's summer, I turned pretty trilogy in advance of its TV adaptation later this year.
1:23.0	You can join our summer long book club by purchasing a book bundle of all three books in the trilogy.
1:28.0	Just click or tap the link in our show notes. Our virtual meetings begin in May, and Olivia, Lucy, and I cannot wait to chat with you.
1:35.0	Now, back to the show. Hi Hunter.
1:38.0	Hello.
1:40.0	Oh, it's time for Backlist Book Club.
1:43.0	I have been so excited for this. I missed it.
1:46.0	I have to. I think you may be approached me about bringing it back last fall, I think, maybe.
1:53.0	And when was the last time we did this pre-pandee?
1:57.0	I think the last, I'm pretty sure, I think the last Backlist Book Club pick might have been Rebecca.
2:02.0	Oh my gosh. That was so long ago.
2:05.0	I know.
2:06.0	And did we, okay, I did want your help remembering.
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