Episode 434 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 20

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 59 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. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website (type “Episode 434” into the search bar to easily find the books mentioned in this episode): Monsters by Claire Dederer American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon (unavailable to purchase) Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith (audiobook) (paperback) Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin (audiobook) (hardcover) Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek by Thea Glassman (audiobook) (hardcover) The Celebrants by Steven Rowley (audiobook) (hardcover) The Bodyguard by Katherine Center (audiobook) (paperback) Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum (audiobook) (hardcover) Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter (audiobook) (paperback) Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes (audiobook) (hardcover) I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (audiobook) (hardcover) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Dear Regina by Flannery O'Connor The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee 11/22/63 by Stephen King Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway Life and Other Love Songs by Anissa Gray Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Houston From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Bloomability by Sharon Creech (unavailable to purchase) The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin East of Eden by John Steinbeck Jaws by Peter Benchley 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 Directions to Myself by Heidi Julavits. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. 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...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins. Thank you to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Summer is a wonderful time to see Thomasville, Georgia! If it’s time to hit the road for a quick getaway, we’re exactly what you’re looking for! You can rekindle your spark, explore historical sites, indulge in dining out, shop at amazing independent stores, and finally relax and unwind. There’s no better getaway than Thomasville! Whether you live close by or are passing through, we hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia – it’s worth the trip! Plan your visit at ThomasvilleGa.com.

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	You do not need to have a grand unified theory about what to do about Michael Jackson.
0:29.0	The way you consume art doesn't make you a bad person or a good one. You'll have to find some other way to accomplish that.
0:38.0	Claire Deterrer, Monsters, a fan's dilemma.
0:44.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,
0:50.0	and we're halfway through the year, so this week it's time for an episode of Literary Therapy.
0:56.0	Have you been curious about the Bookshelf's reader retreats? Have you seen our pictures and videos on Instagram and wondered if you should make the trip to Thomasville yourself?
1:05.0	Well, spots are open now for our September 2023 reader retreat, and we would love for you to join us.
1:12.0	Our guest author for our fall retreat is Annabelle Moynihan, the author of my beloved Nora goes off script.
1:18.0	Plus, we've got all sorts of other bookish festivities planned, including a pencil plate dinner, a book club conversation, and a live podcast recording.
1:27.0	To grab your spot, visit our reservation site at bookshelfthomasville.com forward slash pages, forward slash reader dash retreats.
1:36.0	There's also a link in the show notes to make it easier.
1:39.0	Reservations include a two-night stay at the Marriott in downtown Thomasville, as well as three meals.
1:44.0	We hope you get to come see us this fall.
1:48.0	Now back to the task at hand.
1:50.0	If you are new to From the Front porch every few months, 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.
2:03.0	If you have your own readerly riddle you'd like me to solve in a future episode, you can leave me a voicemail at the From the Front porch website.
2:11.0	That's from the front porch podcast.com forward slash contact.
2:16.0	There's a link in the show notes too.
2:18.0	You'll scroll until you see an orange button on that page that says start recording, click or tap that button and voila.
2:25.0	I would love love love to hear from you.
2:28.0	First up, a voicemail from Allison.
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