Episode 381 || Best Books of the Year (So Far)

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We’re already halfway through 2022! In this episode of From the Front Porch, Annie and Hunter share their favorite books of the year so far. The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Annie’s Top Five: The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford Hunter’s Top Five: The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka Trust by Hernan Diaz The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid Just By Looking At Him by Ryan O’Connell Other Books Mentioned: The Lifestyle by Taylor Hahn Sula by Toni Morrison The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager Flight by Lynn Steger Strong On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan Night Shift by Kiare Ladner All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt Bliss Montage by Ling Ma 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 Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun. Hunter is reading Greenland by David Santos Donaldson. 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, 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	You have to surrender. That's when you have to say, Lord, I might not get it the way I want it, but I know there's something out there for me, and it may look different than my little mind might have imagined it, but it doesn't mean I won't have glory.
0:37.0	It may not be the exact kind, but it doesn't mean my life won't hold favor.
0:42.0	Margaret Wilkerson sexton on the rooftop.
0:47.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm joined by my friend and frequent co-host Hunter McClendon to talk about our reading years so far.
0:59.0	But before we get started, bar and catastrophe, by the time you hear this, we will have a new website and a new point of sale system.
1:07.0	And I promise you, there are years of research, work, and effort we have put into this change for the store.
1:13.0	We hope you will be patient with us as we work out the kinks in our new system and in our new site.
1:18.0	And as you kind of play around with the site for the first time, I hope you'll provide us with your feedback.
1:23.0	We would love to know, do you think it's helpful? Do you think the search engine is better than the other one? I hope it is. We hope it is.
1:29.0	We have some fun perks for customers who are purchasing from us over the next couple of weeks, who are kind of testing the website for us.
1:35.0	So to kind of get a full view of what we're looking for and what perks we're offering to customers who are testing the functionality of the site, you can just follow us on Instagram at Bookshelf TVL
1:46.0	or make sure you're subscribed to our bookstore newsletter. You can sign up for that at bookshelf Thomasville dot com or just visit the new website bookshelf Thomasville dot com and shop around and in the notes of your order.
1:57.0	Let us know what you think about the site. You may be rewarded for your feedback.
2:01.0	So thank you so much. We are thrilled with these fun and exciting changes and we hope you guys will be excited too.
2:07.0	Okay, Hunter. Hi, hello. Hi, hello. I really wanted us to sing. Oh, we're halfway there. I refuse to sing it. Oh, my gosh.
2:25.0	Do you know that song is in that movie, if you from the top with Gwyneth Paltrow? Yes.
2:31.0	And yeah, every time I think of that song, I think like, of course, of all the movies, that's the one I think that's the one that you think of.
2:37.0	Yeah, we're halfway there. We're over halfway through the year, actually. And so it's time to check in and see what our reading years are looking like so far.
2:46.0	We have kept our top five secret from one another. So we're going to talk about our top five books of the year so far.
2:52.0	We're going to talk most anticipated. I sent you it's a really adorable Instagram template that I saw on Instagram.
2:58.0	It's designed by Sarah at the high reader. That's the hi reader.
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