Episode 391 || All About Audiobooks

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie’s husband Jordan joins her to talk all about audiobooks! The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf’s Libro.fm playlist (or as physical books from The Bookshelf): Annie's picks: Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee Falling by TJ Newman Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman Going There by Katie Couric How Not To Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett River of the Gods by Candice Millard Taste by Stanley Tucci Upgrade by Blake Crouch The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar Jordan's Picks: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkein The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon Behind her Eyes by Sara Pinborough Defending Jacob by William Landay When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Furious Hours by Casey Cep Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri Death is but a Dream by Christopher Kerr The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe Mutual Listens: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green Directed by James Burrows by James Burrows Calypso by David Sedaris Survive the Night by Riley Sager 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 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Jordan is reading Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri and The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe. 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. You can shop The Bookshelf’s Libro.fm playlist here.

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	I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience.
0:29.0	When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head.
0:33.0	When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy nit cap pulled down over your eyes.
0:41.0	Robin Sloan
0:43.0	Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
0:48.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtowns, Homisville, Georgia, and this week we're talking about audiobooks.
0:56.0	Before we get started, did you know Audible is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon?
1:01.0	I'm not sure I would have been fully aware of that fact, where it not for my work in the bookselling world, which is why as both a consumer of audiobooks and as a bookstore owner, I am super grateful for Libro FM and the ways they partner with independent bookstores.
1:13.0	If you're not familiar, Libro FM makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks through your local bookstore.
1:19.0	You can head to Libro.fm, choose the bookstore you'd like to support, and that store will get a portion of every purchase you may.
1:26.0	You can support the bookshelf by going to Libro.fm, forward slash bookshelf, Thomasville.
1:32.0	You can buy audiobooks all a cart, or you can have a monthly membership just like other digital audiobook platforms.
1:38.0	Jordan and I both have Libro FM memberships.
1:41.0	Obviously, you can listen to audiobooks and whatever ways are most convenient for you.
1:45.0	Many of my friends use Libro FM as well as Libby a platform for libraries, but the bookshelf is partnered with Libro FM since its inception, and it's a joy to have a platform to recommend to audiobook listeners who want to support indie bookstores like ours.
1:58.0	Just go to Libro.fm, forward slash bookshelf, Thomasville, to find out more.
2:04.0	I could think of no better person to chat about audiobooks with than my husband Jordan.
2:08.0	Jordan is an attorney for the Florida House of Representatives, and he's an avid audiobook reader.
2:13.0	He comes on the podcast annually to chat about March Madness, but I thought it would be fun to break tradition just a bit to share audiobooks we've both been listening to and enjoying over the last few months.
2:23.0	Hi Jordan.
2:24.0	Hi, how's it going?
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