Episode 382 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 15

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s time for another round of Literary Therapy! Annie is back to answer more of your reading questions and dilemmas. If you have a question you would like Annie to answer in a future episode, you can leave us a voicemail here. The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver Wild Spectacle by Janisse Ray Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Taste by Stanley Tucci Love & Gelato by Jenna Welch One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante LibroFM Educated by Tara Westover Book Lovers by Emily Henry Beach Read by Emily Henry Flying Solo by Linda Holmes American Royals book series Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore Liane Moriarty’s books Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett Competitive Grieving by Nora Zelevansky Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London The Vacationers by Emma Straub So Happy For You by Celia Laskey Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith Seven Days in June by Tia Williams Falling by T. J. Newman The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green David Sedaris Mary Laura Philpott Know My Name by Chanel Miller Going There by Katie Couric Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Love & Saffron by Kim Fay 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 Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore. 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

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	She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension.
0:29.0	She intensified reality as she reduced it to words.
0:33.0	She injected it with energy.
0:42.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:48.0	And this week, it's time for another episode of Literary Therapy.
0:53.0	Before we get started, just a reminder that in August, just a couple of weeks from now, we will be hosting our From the Front porch book club on Patreon.
1:02.0	Earlier this year, we added more levels of support on Patreon, including a $20 a month level called Book Club Companions.
1:09.0	This Patreon tier includes all the benefits of our $5 a month tier, that's monthly Q&A sessions, conquer our classic episodes, but it also adds access to our quarterly book club.
1:21.0	These are our long conversations held virtually on Zoom, and the book we choose comes from my shelf subscription selections.
1:28.0	Earlier this year, we talked about Julie Azucca's The Swimmers, and it was the highlight of my spring.
1:34.0	Later this year, Olivia will also be hosting her own book club conversations through Patreon, so if you prefer mysteries and suspense novels to literary fiction, you're in luck.
1:44.0	Hop on over to patreon.com forward slash from the front porch for more information about our August dates and to join us for our August meeting.
1:54.0	Now back to therapy.
1:57.0	Every few weeks, I dive into the metaphorical mailbag and peruse your readerly hangups and bookish conundrums like a literary phrasier crane tackling your issues on air.
2:07.0	If you have your own readerly riddle, you'd like me to solve in a future episode.
2:11.0	You can leave me a voicemail at the from the front porch website.
2:14.0	That's from thefrontportchpodcast.com forward slash contact.
2:19.0	You'll scroll to the middle of the page until you see an orange button that says start recording.
2:24.0	There's no need to have a microphone, just press that button and leave me a voicemail.
2:28.0	Our first dilemma, though, was actually emailed in by listener Jana Griner.
2:34.0	Jana says, my literary question is about the definition of a book flight.
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