Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.

Every day, Sister Curie said, the sister asked me every day, and finally, I was a bit thick. I learned to ask myself.

We sisters take a series of vows, simple vows, final vows, those are choices, but we also make a choice every day.

It can be hard to remember that in a city as beautiful and busy and whipped cream filled as this, and sometimes visitors distract, I'm sorry, but I choose.

You choose, Claire said, I choose, Sister Curie said, checking her watch, looking around, and here we are. Liam Callahan, win in Rome.

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm back talking to my mom about books for readers with PG-13 Tastes.

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I love that she includes recommendations from others as well. The currently reading group had a curated book selection suggested by Annie and her team, and one of those books turned out to be a book that will be in my all-time top 10.

If you love books, this is a great podcast. Thank you so much Jen, and I'm dying to know what book landed in your top 10 of all time.

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Hi, Mom. Hi, Annie Sue. Welcome back to The Front porch. So happy to be here.

So your book reviews are beloved. People like hearing from you. Well, that's very kind.

People love hearing from you, and we last had you on in November, so it's been a minute. Yes, and I've read a lot of books.

So excited to talk to you. If this is your first time listening to an episode with me and my mom, as a reminder, my mom enjoys books.

I wish I could remember how we normally land on it, because sensitive readers is not your favorite way to describe yourself.

Well, it's not a terrible way, because we are, I think readers like me enjoy a good plot and like good characters, and we're not afraid of sensitive subjects.

Yes. But we would rather not have graphic violence, sex, and language.

That's fair. How about that? Yeah, that's good. Nothing too graphic for my mom.

And so if you are a reader like her, we used to say maybe PG, but we think it's more appropriate to say PG 13.

So if you are find yourself maybe preferring PG PG 13 lit, you are probably a Nancy, who is one of our bookshelf booksellers.

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