Episode 376 || Casting Call

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is talking with her friends and fellow book club members for a new episode of Casting Call. They’re casting the characters in Bonnie Garmus’ debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry. You can follow @julieannareads on Instagram to vote for your casting picks! The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased online from The Bookshelf: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 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 On the Roof Top by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Julie Anna is reading Breathless by Amy McCulloch. Courtney is reading Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland. 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	Whenever you feel afraid, just remember, courage is the root of change, and change is what we're chemically designed to do.
0:33.0	Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry.
0:38.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week, I'm joined by my friends and fellow book club members for a new episode of Casting Call, where we will cast the characters in Bonnie Garmus's debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry.
0:54.0	Before we begin, I wanted to remind listeners of the fun we're having over on Patreon, we're currently halfway through our reading of the count of Monte Cristo, I cannot believe it, and Hunter and I are recapping our readings each month.
1:05.0	Earlier this spring, we added more levels of support, so listeners and friends of the show can support from the front porch at the $5, $20, or $50 levels.
1:14.0	For $20 a month, you'll become a book club companion with access to our quarterly book club, which picks back up in August.
1:20.0	Bookshelf benefactors support the show at the $50 a month level, and you'll hear their names at the end of each of our weekly episodes.
1:26.0	They receive discount codes and early access to our virtual events.
1:30.0	To join in all the fun, just go to patreon.com, forward slash from the front porch.
1:35.0	Now, back to the show. Welcome back to Courtney Kinsey and Julianna Holmes.
1:41.0	They are my fellow book club members and friends. We do these casting call episodes.
1:45.0	I was going to say multiple times a year, but it's like a couple of times a year.
1:49.0	We lasted this in September. Welcome back to the show, guys. Hi, Courtney. Hey, how's it going?
1:54.0	Pretty good. Hang in there.
1:56.0	How honest are we going to be? Hi, Julianna.
2:00.0	Hi, thanks for having us back.
2:02.0	So, Julianna, this is really your baby that you kindly allow us to use the format on from the front porch.
2:11.0	So, Julianna, you might recognize her from Instagram at Julianna Reads.
2:15.0	Casting call is really something she kind of started on her Instagram account.
2:19.0	Do you want to tell us a little bit about it to give listeners an idea of what we do?
2:22.0	Yeah, so in this season of life, this has been kind of a neglecting baby.
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