Episode 402 || Literary Therapy Vol. 18

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s time for another Literary Therapy session! Our literary Frasier Crane, 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. Get your copies of the books mentioned in this episode from The Bookshelf: Little Women Book Club Flight by Lynn Steger Strong Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak (currently unavailable to order) The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews Voracious! by Cara Nicoletti (currently unavailable to order) My First Popsicle edited by Zosia Mamet The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Winter Solstice by Rosmunde Pilcher An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott (currently unavailable to order) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (currently unavailable to order) Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Wintering by Katherine May Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley Little Women (painted edition) by Louisa May Alcott Persuasion (painted edition) by Jane Austen The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green All These Wonders and Occasional Magic by The Moth Liturgies for Hope by Elizabeth Moore & Audrey Elledge A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson Miracle on 10th Street by Madeleine L’Engle (currently unavailable to order) A Treasury of Family Christmas Poems by Union Square Kids The Boy, The Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses (releases 1/17/23) 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	Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Joe, lying on the rug.
0:29.0	It's so dreadful to be poor, side-meg, looking down at her old dress.
0:35.0	I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
0:41.0	Add a little Amy with an injured sniff.
0:44.0	We've got father and mother, and each other, said Beth contentedly from her corner.
0:50.0	Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
0:55.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
1:01.0	And this week, it's time for an episode of Literary Therapy, Holiday Edition.
1:07.0	Before we get started, I wanted to share with you about a new book club hosted by Melissa Zaldivar, Jamie Ivy, and me, Annie B. Jones.
1:16.0	Launching on December 24th, we're reading Little Women Together, one chapter a day, until mid-February.
1:23.0	Not as intense as you might think. The chapters are actually pretty short. I had forgotten that.
1:27.0	And one chapter a day of Little Women in the New Year sounds delightful.
1:31.0	We'll meet over Zoom a few times over the course of the novel, and everything will culminate in a final conversation,
1:37.0	also discussing the merits of Greta Gerwig's 2019 film adaptation, one of my very favorite movies of all time.
1:46.0	This isn't a bookshelf-sponsored thing that we are, of course, selling copies of Little Women to any readers who might need it.
1:52.0	This is just me, joining forces with two women, I respect, to read a book I love dearly.
1:57.0	Melissa is the author of What Cannot Be Lost, and is a guide at Orchard House.
2:02.0	She's also the host of the Cheer Her Own podcast. You might be familiar with her because of her book,
2:06.0	or because my little foray into emotional support leaf peeping was sponsored, in part, by Melissa.
2:13.0	By sponsored, I mean, I went on her cheer her on Weekend Trip, and it was amazing.
2:17.0	Jamie Ivy is a podcast host of The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivy, and she's reading Little Women for the very first time.
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