Episode 396 || October Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in October. As always, we’re offering a October Reading Recap Bundle, which features Annie’s three favorite books from this month. Get your October Reading Recap Bundle or your favorites of Annie’s October reads on our website: October Reading Recap Bundle People Person by Candice Carty-Williams Burial Rites by Hannah Kent What Cannot Be Lost by Melissa Zaldivar Super Bloom by Megan Tady Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn Night Film by Marisha Pessl The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel 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. Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Everyone loves fall in Thomasville, Georgia! When it’s time to getaway, we have exactly what you need! Find romance, explore historical sites, dine out, shop, and make time to relax and unwind. There’s no better getaway than a Thomasville Getaway! Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com or @thomasvillega on Instagram. This week Annie is reading The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel. 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, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie Johnson, and Kate Johnston Tucker.

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	Agnes shook her head to know what a person has done and to know who a person is are very different things.
0:32.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in October.
0:48.0	If you're a regional listener of From the Front porch, you may already know that Southern writer Sean Dietrich is coming to Thomasville on Tuesday, November 1st.
0:58.0	Tickets for this Bookshelf sponsored event went so fast we had to switch venues and now instead of hosting Sean, who you might know as Sean of the South, at the Bookshelf, we are hosting him at the Thomasville Center for the Arts.
1:11.0	This is a huge deal for us and with expanded room for seating tickets are still available on the Bookshelf website for just $15 general admission.
1:19.0	Doors open at 6.30 on November 1st and Sean will begin his performance at 7 o'clock, followed by a book signing.
1:26.0	He's currently on tour for his latest book, You Are My Sunshine, and if you're new to Sean's work, you are in for a treat.
1:33.0	Find out more about Sean and his writing on his website, Sean Dietrich.com, then grab your tickets for our November 1st event at www.BookshelfThomasville.com.
1:45.0	Oh, who could believe that October is over?
1:49.0	We are wrapping up October and I wanted to of course recap the books I read this month.
1:54.0	It is as so many Instagram TikTok people have commented in a spooky season and I definitely read some spooky books.
2:03.0	But I also feel like I expanded the definition of spooky season and kind of read some spooky adjacent literature.
2:13.0	A lot of the books I read this month I really enjoyed and I cannot wait to talk to you about them.
2:17.0	I was looking at this list and I was really pleased this is going to sound so kind of counterintuitive to my life as a bookstore owner.
2:25.0	But I'm pleased with how many backlist titles I read this month.
2:28.0	This is the time of year when I'm not really reading, I'm not reading for 2022 shelf subscriptions.
2:36.0	I am still trying to work my way into 2023 shelf subscription selections.
2:42.0	But it feels a little bit like my reading life in general is hit or miss.
2:47.0	This is the busiest time of year the bookshelf is quarter four and retail is busy.
2:51.0	And so it's really about just what do I want to read?
2:55.0	And I had a lot of fun with that this month and a lot of these books I read I read because I wanted to.
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