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From the Front Porch

Episode || 370 April Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie is recapping all of the books she read in April. 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. Here is the link to purchase a Summer Literary Lunch ticket. You can find links to the books mentioned in this episode below: These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li Beloved by Toni Morrison Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Birds of California by Katie Cotugno But You Did Not Come Back by Judith Perrignon and Marceline Loridan-Ivens (not available through our distributor, but you can get it from Libro.fm or your local library) Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky 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.  This week Annie is reading Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 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

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

Music

0:24.0

Always remember mine, Sadie. Life is very long, unless it is not. Sadie knew this to be a totology, but it also happened to be true.

0:36.0

Gabrielle Zeven, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.

0:43.0

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.

0:49.0

And this week I'm recapping the books I read in April.

0:53.0

You'll notice that a few of the books I'm reviewing today are being released later this summer.

0:57.0

And yes, that's because I read advanced reader copies and have to read in advance.

1:01.0

But that's also because this month I started doing a lot of prep work for our summer literary lunch.

1:07.0

If you've never joined us for a literary lunch, these are the bookshelves quarterly virtual events designed to work around your literal or metaphorical lunch breaks.

1:17.0

I discuss my favorite books of the upcoming season, and I do so with readers' decision fatigue in mind.

1:24.0

Tickets are on sale now for our summer conversation. You can find them online at www.BookshelfThomasville.com.

1:32.0

Just click events, or you can tap the link in our show notes, and it'll take you straight to the ticket page.

1:37.0

Again, that's our summer literary lunch being held in May.

1:41.0

Now, the books I read in April, I read a lot of books, and I think that's partly because I listen to some audiobooks this month,

1:50.0

months when I'm able to listen to audiobooks, which is not every month, but when I am able to, I get more reading done just by nature of I'm spending a lot of my time reading.

2:00.0

Not just my sitting down time, but my walking around cleaning the house or my driving in a car time.

2:05.0

So several good audiobooks this month, or a few good audiobooks, and yeah, a lot of really great reads.

2:11.0

And I think pretty wide range of genres, actually, when it's all said and done.

2:16.0

So the first book that I finished in April was These Silent Woods. This is by Kimmy Cunningham Grant.

2:22.0

I read this. I'm so proud to be able to say this. I read this for my book club.

2:26.0

I have had a really hard time reading my book club's books since the pandemic.

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