Welcome to episode 43 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.

And today I'm sharing about the books I read in September.

Before we get started, I wanted to remind local listeners about One Book Thomas County.

Our whole community is reading The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin,

and Gretchen is actually going to be in Thomasville on Tuesday, October 27th at the Thomasville Center for the Arts. Tickets and more information can be found at the

one book website, www.1bookthomascounty.org. And I'll put a link to that in the show notes. You can also

find more information on the one book Facebook page. Again, that's one book, Thomas County. I hope you

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the bookshelf. All right, let's go ahead and get started. So I read, let's see, seven books,

I think in September. I started the month off a little slow and then wound up having a brief

trip to the beach, and so was able to tackle a few books that weekend.

So I cannot wait to share with you what I was reading last month.

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