Episode 439 || Back-to-School Book Flights

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, bookseller Kyndall joins Annie and Olivia for Back to School Book Flights! They’re talking about book flights: a stack of three books curated around a certain theme or topic. Today, they’re choosing books with back-to-school vibes. Ready to talk fall books? Join us online or in the store for our fall literary previews! Purchase a ticket for our online Fall Literary First Look here. Purchase a ticket for our in-store Fall Literary Lunch here. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website: Annie's Back to School Book Flight Stealing by Margaret Verble Dear Regina by Flannery O'Connor The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li Olivia's Back to School Book Flight Property of the Rebel Librarian by Allison VarnesAbsolutely, Positively Natty by Lisa GreenwaldRewind by Lisa Graff Kyndall's Back to School Book Flight What Happens After Midnight by K.L. Walther They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman Again But Better by Christine Riccio 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 Wedding People by Alison Espach (not yet available for preorder, releases in 2024). Olivia is reading Thieves' Gambit by Kayvion Lewis. Kyndall is reading Magnolia Parks by Jessa Hastings. 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.

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	The man who teaches magazine writing gave me a paper back with Clever as Hell written on it, so I presume I'm doing alright in his class.
0:34.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm discussing back-to-school book flights with Bookshelf floor manager Olivia Schaeffer and bookseller Kindlestone.
0:52.0	If you're looking for other titles to add to your TBR list this fall, consider joining us for our seasonal literary first look.
1:00.0	At noon on September 13, the Bookshelf is hosting a webinar on Zoom, where I'll reveal my and Bookshelf staffer's favorite newly released titles for the autumn season.
1:10.0	We'll cover literary fiction, mysteries, romcoms, and memoirs and nonfiction, all in service to ensure you've got just what you need to make your library hold requests and indie bookstore pre-orders.
1:23.0	Tickets are $15 and include access to the live event as well as the recording, a PDF of our favorite titles, and a discount code in case you want to purchase your books directly from the Bookshelf.
1:35.0	Go to BookshelfThomasville.com or click the link in our show notes to snag your ticket.
1:41.0	Now, back to the show.
1:43.0	Hi guys!
1:44.0	Hey!
1:45.0	Hey!
1:46.0	Welcome! There's a new voice on From the Front porch.
1:51.0	Hi Kendall!
1:52.0	Hi guys!
1:53.0	Hi, I'm so excited!
1:55.0	Woo!
1:56.0	We really thought who better than a person not going back to school because you for the first time are not going back to school this fall.
2:04.0	How does that make you feel?
2:05.0	Oh, very, very strange feeling.
2:08.0	Watching the target, looked at the back to school section, felt a little hole in my heart, but you know, with change there's good too, I guess.
2:18.0	And you can live vicariously through your friends and you can just read campus novels.
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