Episode 440 || August Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in August. As always, we’re offering a Reading Recap Bundle, which features Annie’s three favorite books she read this past month. You automatically get 10% off your books when you order your Reading Recap Bundle here! You can get the books mentioned in this episode on our website (type “Episode 440” into the search bar to easily find the books mentioned in this episode): Annie's August Reading Recap Bundle - $66.00 We Are Too Many by Hannah Pittard No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri The Wedding People by Alison Espach (releases May 2024, not yet available for preorder) Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel The Only One Left by Riley Sager Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond We Are Too Many by Hannah Pittard The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister For more information on One Book Thomas County, please visit their website here. In September, The Bookshelf is partnering with the Thomas County Library to re-launch our area One Book program. For 10 years, the Thomas County Library has hosted South Georgia’s first (and only!) One Book program, where our entire community reads the same book together and celebrates that book with a variety of literary events. This year, we’re reading You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy, and our celebration of Murphy’s book will culminate in a visit from the author at the Thomas County Board of Education auditorium on Thursday, September 28 at 7 p.m. Tickets are just $10 and can be found in-store at The Bookshelf or online at www.onebookthomascounty.org. You have plenty of time to get tickets and to read You’re Not Listening along with us! Grab your copy at The Bookshelf here, the library, or read along with us from far away by snagging a copy at your own local indie. 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 You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith. 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.

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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	No, Phoebe will never be a mother. Phoebe will never know what it's like to create life inside of her.
0:32.0	But there are other ways to create, other ways to love, other reasons to live.
0:40.0	Allison Espat, The Wedding People.
0:45.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:51.0	And this week, I'm recapping the books I read in August.
0:56.0	Next month is a big one for the Bookshelf and for Thomasville.
0:59.0	In September, we're helping the Thomas County Library relaunch our area one book program.
1:05.0	For 10 years, the Thomas County Library has hosted South Georgia's first and only one book program, where our entire community reads the same book together and celebrates that book with a variety of literary events.
1:18.0	This year, we're reading You're Not Listening, What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy.
1:25.0	And our celebration of Murphy's book will culminate in a visit from the author at the Thomas County Board of Education Auditorium on Thursday, September 28th.
1:36.0	Tickets are $10 and can be found in store at the Bookshelf or online at 1booktomiscounty.org.
1:46.0	You have plenty of time to get tickets and to read You're Not Listening right along with us.
1:51.0	Just grab your copy at the Bookshelf, your local library, or read along with us from far away by snagging a copy at your own local indie.
1:59.0	Visit 1booktomiscounty.org for more details about this year's event. We hope to see you there.
2:08.0	Okay, August is notoriously my least favorite month, but it hasn't been so bad. I mean, it's been miserably hot.
2:16.0	It's been miserably hot here in Thomasville, though I think that that has been the case for a lot of us across the country.
2:23.0	My friends in Texas, my friends in Missouri, I have seen lots of excessive temperatures, and so I know I'm not the only one who has been frustrated by the heat.
2:34.0	I really do believe that heat affects our way of life.
2:39.0	It has been miserably hot here, but I had to go to the Mississippi Book Festival with Jordan.
2:45.0	That was really fun and kind of an unexpected adventure. We celebrated a family wedding.
2:51.0	We also spent a lot of time at home and tried to not have as many evening plans, and that was super helpful.
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