Episode 408 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 19

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 71 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. Our new website will be live on Friday, January 20! You can purchase books mentioned in today’s episode in the store or on our website starting January 20: Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly (unavailable to order) 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens (unavailable order)Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (unavailable to order) Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Brainwaite Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb (unavailable to order)Glitter & Glue by Kelly Corrigan (unavailable to order)My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout One More Thing by BJ Novak (unavailable to order) Single, Carefree, and Mellow by Katherine Heiny (unavailable to order) Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close (unavailable to order)My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily KingA Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee Maus by Art SpiegalmanDisplacement by Lucy Knisley (unavailable to order)Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto (unavailable to order)And Now I Spill the Family Secrets by Margaret Kimball (unavailable to order)Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall Audition by Barbara WaltersI Miss You When I Blink and Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura PhilpottMemorial Drive by Natasha TrethawayBeautiful Country by Quian Julie WangKnow My Name by Chanel MillerThe New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker (unavailable to order)Becoming by Michelle ObamaFriends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew PerrySpare by Prince HarryMen We Reaped by Jesmyn WardFinding Me by Viola DavisChasing History by Charles Bernstein 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 Spare by Prince Harry. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. 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, Kate O’Connell, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, and Laurie Johnson.

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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	For me, becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim, I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self.
0:38.0	The journey doesn't end. Michelle Obama, becoming.
0:46.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week it's time for an episode of Literary Therapy just in time for your New Year's reading resolutions and dilemmas.
1:01.0	Before we get started, I wanted to remind you in case you weren't aware that our bookstore is in the middle of a website change.
1:08.0	Yes, again, but that's okay. That's okay. We're doing it. And as a result, our website has been down for the month of January.
1:16.0	Now, barring catastrophe, which I do think we are all mentally prepared for in a post-pandemic world, things should be back up and running on January 20th.
1:26.0	Until then, you can still head to BookshelfThomasville.com to purchase shelf subscriptions and winter literary lunch tickets.
1:36.0	Our winter lit lunch, this is our virtual webinar about our favorite titles releasing this season, is scheduled for Thursday, January 26th, and tickets are $15.
1:47.0	Those tickets are still available for purchase at BookshelfThomasville.com.
1:52.0	The winter lit lunch comes with a PDF of my favorite titles, as well as a recording of the webinar in case you can't attend live.
2:00.0	Now, back to the task at hand. Every few weeks, I dive into the metaphorical mailbag and peruse your readerly hang-ups and bookish conundrums like a literary phrasier crane, tackling your issues on air.
2:15.0	If you have your own readerly riddle, you'd like me to solve in a future episode.
2:19.0	You can leave me a voicemail on the from the front porch website that's from thefrontportchpodcast.com forward slash contact.
2:28.0	There's also a link in the show notes. You'll scroll until you see the orange button on that page that says start recording, click or tap there, and voila.
2:37.0	You can leave me a voicemail. Just tell me your name and where you're from.
2:41.0	I asked on Instagram for your readerly dilemmas revolving around New Year's reading resolutions or intentions you've set for your reading life in 2023.
2:52.0	And you all delivered. We have quite a few voicemails, and I want to be respectful and mindful of everyone's time and the length of this episode. So let's get started.
3:01.0	This is Cindy from Port Saint Lucie and my 2023 reading conundrum is how to fit everything in my devotional, something motivational or inspirational book on grief because I'm still going through some grieving.
3:20.0	And then the various books that I'm reading like bleak house, little women and Sharon says so. So those are my things just how to stick to my schedule.
3:33.0	I mean, sometimes I just get overwhelmed and then I get behind and then it's like, oh my god, there's so much to catch up. Thank you.
3:40.0	Cindy, I wanted to start with your dilemma because I think you speak for a lot of readers and a lot of people with varied interests who are looking at their list, their reading list, their TBR list, just their list, perhaps of media consumption in general and they're thinking, who has the time?
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