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From the Front Porch

Episode 373 || Literary Therapy, vol. 16

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s time for another episode of Literary Therapy! Every few weeks, Annie listens to your literary hangups and bookish conundrums, and much like fictional Frasier Crane in the 90s, she tackles your issues on air. If you have your own reading riddle you’d like her to solve in a future issue, leave a voicemail at the From the Front Porch website. The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant Finlay Donovan by Elle Cosimano The Appeal by Janice Hallett The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Love of my Life by Rosie Walsh The Maid by Nita Prose The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale Kings of B’More by R. Eric Thomas When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements & Onjulia Datta Breathless by Amy McCulloch Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka Defending Jacob by William Landay (not available through us, check your local library) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir The E Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber (not available through us, check your local library) Finding Freedom by Erin French Delancey by Molly Wizenberg Radical Candor by Kim Scott The Popcast Emily P. Freeman 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 Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean. 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

I don't know anything other than that it's only when something's damaged beyond repair,

0:29.0

that we realize how beautiful it was.

0:32.0

Rosie Walsh, the love of my life.

0:36.0

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

0:42.0

and this week it's time for another episode of Literary Therapy.

0:46.0

It is already sweltering here in South Georgia and as a bookish woman who was once a bookish kid,

0:52.0

that means I'm already thinking about summer reading.

0:55.0

Nothing to me will ever match the excitement I felt as a child, then earning a star sticker to go on my book at Penn,

1:02.0

then driving with my parents over to Pizza Hut and securing a personal pan pizza,

1:07.0

reading for its own pleasure, delightful, reading for a reward, pure magic.

1:13.0

So this bit of nostalgia is what has inspired us to partner with one of our local pizza joints,

1:17.0

Paulie's Pizza, for our summer by the slice program.

1:21.0

This is for our local kids, pre K through eighth grade.

1:24.0

So if you're in or around Thomasville, I hope you will come by the shop and have your kids pick up your summer by the slice bookmark.

1:31.0

Each time they finish a book, they come to the bookshelf, will stamp their bookmark, and then when they finish three books,

1:38.0

they take the bookmark over to Paulie's for a free slice of pizza.

1:41.0

It is like book it, but local.

1:44.0

I'm so excited about this.

1:46.0

I can hardly stand it.

1:47.0

My staff already asked if a belt could participate.

1:49.0

This is really for your children.

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