Episode 400 || FTFP Live from Reader Retreat!

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving! We’re so grateful for you. To thank you for listening, we have a special episode for you this week: a recording of our live show from our August Reader Retreat! In this episode, Annie, Ashley, and Hunter pair books with their favorite celebrity couples and chat about what they were reading, watching, and listening to this past summer. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith The Bodyguard by Katherine Center Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan My Eyes are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann (currently unavailable to order) Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Matrix by Lauren Groff Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield The Work Wife by Alison Hart A Burning by Megha Majumdar The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix Hooked by Sutton Foster Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li Florida Woman by Deb Rogers Paul by Daisy Lefarge Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan Husband Material by Alexis Hall Rabbit Run by John Updike (currently unavailable to order) Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry 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. Spend Christmas in Thomasville! There is something truly special about the holiday season in Thomasville. From shopping for those must-have presents for everyone on your list, to the twinkling lights, sparkling window displays, and tempting smells wafting from restaurants all add to the festive feeling of the season. From downtown hotels, to delightful vacation rentals, book your getaway to Thomasville and add a little more sparkle to your holidays! Learn more and plan your trip at www.thomasvillega.com or @thomasvillega on Instagram. 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.

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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 worked my entire life to be at this moment. I can allow this to be good.
0:29.0	It gives me permission to own my talent. It calms me down. I don't have to apologize, make myself small, and I can still be nice while doing it.
0:39.0	Sutton Foster hooked how crafting saved my life.
0:45.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:52.0	And this week we're sharing our live show footage from our August Reader Retreat.
0:57.0	Before we get into the live show, I just wanted to thank everyone for your support during this holiday season.
1:04.0	From the Front porch is a production of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia.
1:09.0	And that means shopping small means a lot to us. We're a small business, we're a brick and mortar bookstore, and this time of year is crucial to our business.
1:20.0	We hope that as you shop this holiday season, you will consider shopping with the Bookshelf. You can shop locally, obviously, in downtown Thomasville.
1:27.0	And you can also shop online at bookshelfthomasville.com.
1:31.0	We're asking all of our long distance customers to place their holiday orders by December 9th, just so we can make sure to get your gifts where they need to be, when they need to be there.
1:41.0	And if you've already shopped with us this holiday season, thank you.
1:44.0	It means a lot that you support our small business, especially from far away.
1:48.0	And we're grateful for every purchase that you make with us.
1:51.0	I know I've seen on the internet the meme that says something like, every time you make a purchase with a small business, somebody does a happy dance.
1:58.0	And that's true. We really do a happy dance. We also pay our bills and pay our utility bills and our city and county taxes.
2:06.0	And it means more than just a happy dance, right?
2:10.0	It means practically being able to keep our business open.
2:13.0	And so thank you for every purchase you make this holiday season.
2:17.0	Now, this is an unusual, formatted episode, but it's unusual because it's also Thanksgiving.
2:23.0	I hope wherever you are, wherever you are traveling, if you are one of our American listeners, I hope you are enjoying your Thanksgiving holiday.
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