Episode 384 || August New Release Rundown

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie and Olivia are back for another New Release Rundown. They’re sharing the August releases they’re excited about to help you build your TBR list. Don’t forget, if you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, you can enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10 percent off your order. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our new website: Annie’s list: A Curious Faith by Lore Ferguson Wilbert Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford How to Fall Out of Love Madly by Jana Casale Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean Just Another Love Song by Kerry Winfrey Long Past Summer by Noué Kirwan Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Olivia's list: Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka All Are Neighbors by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman Three Strike Summer by Skyler Schrempp Patchwork by Matt De La Pena The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart 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 Upgrade by Blake Crouch. Olivia is reading The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart. 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	Dorothy remembered what Dr. Shedhorn had said about scorecards and echoes. How each generation is built upon the genetic ruins of the past, that our lives are merely biological waypoints.
0:37.0	We're not individual flowers, annuals that bloom and then die. We're perennials. A part of us comes back each new season, carrying a bit of the genus of the previous floret.
0:52.0	Jamie Ford, the many daughters of A Phong Moi.
0:58.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week we're hosting another new release roundup with retail floor manager Olivia Schaeffer.
1:09.0	The From the Front porch Book Club meets this month. Earlier this year we added new levels of support over on Patreon, and for $20 a month, you'll become a Book Club companion.
1:20.0	This Patreon level includes all the benefits of our $5 tier, plus access to our quarterly soon to be by monthly Book Club.
1:28.0	I'm hosting our conversation in August about CJ Hauser's essay collection, The Crane Wife, and in September Olivia will be hosting a conversation about Margarita Montemores acts of violet.
1:41.0	Both books were selections in our shelf subscription program and can be found in our online store at bookshelftomasville.com.
1:49.0	Become a $20 Patreon supporter to join both Book Club conversations. We would love to have you. Just go to patreon.com forward slash from the front porch.
1:59.0	Hi Olivia.
2:00.0	Hey, how are we? We're great.
2:03.0	Everything's going really well.
2:05.0	We're great. Remember I am getting flashbacks. I don't know if you are too. This month has made me feel like, oh, remember the pandemic and how stressful that was.
2:14.0	Remember, remember when we would record news day Tuesday episodes and just be shells of ourselves.
2:24.0	And I hate to tell you, but I'm pretty sure we're still in a pants.
2:29.0	Oh, no, we definitely are. I went to the movies last night. Like that was my, I think Aaron posted on Instagram that she coped by like cooking her family dinner and I coped by sending myself to the movies with Ashley.
2:43.0	And I walked into the movie theater and I was like, ooh, this is a lot of people because it turns out in telehassy. They do something called $5 Tuesdays.
2:52.0	And man, I put a mask on so fast. I was like, uh, this was not what I was anticipating. I took it off in the theater, but I thought, oh, I guess we're still doing this.
3:03.0	I guess, I guess, I guess we still could get sick.
3:07.0	Can I give you my hot take on movie theaters?
3:10.0	Yes, you and I, this would not shock me if this is a place where Annie and Olivia diverge.
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