Episode 425 || Beach Reach Book Flights

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch Annie and Bookshelf floor manager Olivia are discussing beach read book flights: the perfect literary pairings to take to the beach this summer. To get your beach read book flights, visit our website: The Rom-Com Flight, $42 Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter Love Buzz by Neely Tubati-Alexander The Layover by Lacie Waldon The Thrills & Chills Flight, $67 Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker Three by D.A. Mishani The Things to Ponder Flight, $69 The Teachers by Alexandra Robbins Monsters by Claire Dederer The Life Council by Laura Tremaine The Just a Touch of Murder Flight, $56 Murder at Mallowan Hall by Colleen Cambridge The Maid by Nita Prose Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen 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 Kala by Colin Walsh. Olivia is reading Lay Your Body Down by Amy Suiter Clarke. 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... Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Donna Hetchler, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.

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	My inheritance was the knowledge that love is always in the air, always a possibility,
0:29.0	and always worth it.
0:36.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:42.0	And this week, Bookshelf floor manager Olivia Schaeffer and I are discussing Beech Read book flights,
0:47.0	the perfect literary pairings to take to the beach this summer.
0:50.0	If you're looking for other titles to add to your TBR list this summer, consider joining us for our seasonal, literary first look.
0:58.0	At noon on May 25th, the Bookshelf is hosting a webinar on Zoom, where I'll reveal my and Bookshelf staffers' favorite newly released titles for summer.
1:07.0	We'll cover literary fiction, mysteries, romcoms, and memoirs, all in service to ensure you've got just what you need to make your library hold requests and indie books or pre-orders.
1:18.0	Tickets are $15 and include access to the live event as well as the recording, a PDF of our favorite titles,
1:26.0	and a discount code in case you want to purchase your books directly from the Bookshelf.
1:31.0	Just go to bookshelfthomasville.com or click the link in our show notes to snag your ticket.
1:37.0	Now, back to the show.
1:39.0	Hi Olivia!
1:40.0	Hey!
1:41.0	It's been a minute since we've done a book flight.
1:43.0	It has, it's almost a four year?
1:46.0	No, less than that.
1:47.0	Fall, we did it in fall.
1:49.0	I was like, when did we do it?
1:50.0	Well, there is the school reads, the campus novels, right?
1:55.0	Did we do spooky?
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