Episode 374 || May Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie is recapping all of the books she read in May. 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: Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean Book Lovers by Emily Henry This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Catholics by Brian Moore The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green The Year of the Horses by Courtney Maum 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 listening to Anna by Amy Odell. 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	One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be.
0:32.0	The ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.
0:36.0	John Green, the Anthropocene Reviewed.
0:40.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in May.
0:50.0	It is officially, in my opinion, anyway, summer reading season.
0:54.0	If you are struggling to know what books to put in your literal or metaphorical beach bag this summer, last week we hosted our seasonal literary lunch with more than 100 of our local and long distance friends.
1:06.0	I talked about my favorite titles of the season, including seven fiction reads I consider the summer essentials.
1:13.0	And although the live event is over, you can still purchase a ticket to watch the Zoom recording and receive a PDF of our summer book list.
1:21.0	Just go to bookshelfthomasville.com and click on events to access that ticket information.
1:27.0	Now, I would like to recap the books I read in May.
1:31.0	Look, May is a crazy busy month for a lot of people.
1:35.0	It is the end of the school year. It's graduation season. It's Mother's Day.
1:39.0	It's just a really chock full month. It's also the month I happened to go on my summer slash annual vacation.
1:48.0	And so Jordan and I just got back as of this recording. We got back from Los Angeles last night.
1:53.0	And you can definitely see that busyness reflected in my reading for the month.
1:59.0	I still read quite a bit. I can't wait to talk about the books that I did read.
2:03.0	But if you are like me and your reading is severely affected and impacted by your personal life and the things happening in your life at home, I guess I just want to remind you that this is not a contest.
2:16.0	It's not a contest to see how many books we can read a month.
2:20.0	And it's okay if some of our reading months are slower than others.
2:24.0	You can really see the effect of bookshelf events and busy seasons at the store reflected in my reading.
2:32.0	And I'm sure that's probably true for a lot of YouTube.
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