Episode 448 || October Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in October. You get 10% off your books when you order your October Reading Recap bundle! Each month, we offer a Reading Recap bundle, which features Annie’s three favorite books she read that month. Get your bundle here. You can get the books mentioned in this episode on our website (type “Episode 448” into the search bar and tap enter to easily find the books mentioned in this episode): Cross everyone off your holiday shopping list at The Bookshelf’s super-popular virtual holiday literary previews, plus our Holiday Market for bookish gift items! Tickets are $15. Each event takes place online via Zoom. If you can’t join us live, you’ll have access to a recording after the event. Get your tickets to the virtual events here: Adult Holiday Literary First Look ticket – Annie will walk you through the best books to give to everyone on your list: from your hard-to-buy-for dad, to your best friend who’s read everything, to your mother-in-law. Kid's Holiday Literary First Look ticket – Olivia will walk you through the best books to give the young readers in your life, from board book readers to middle grade readers. Plus, you’ll get an exclusive sneak-peek at our Countdown to Christmas kids picture book bundles! Holiday Market ticket – Annie will walk you through the delightful, bookish gift items The Bookshelf has in store this season. Plus, you’ll get an exclusive sneak-peek at our Bookshelf Advent Calendar for adults! Annie's October Reading Recap Bundle - $47 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (paperback) My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine (paperback) Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (paperback) The Last Love Note by Emma Grey (releases 11/28/23) Heirloom Rooms by Erin Napier Empire Falls by Richard Russo My Roommate Is a Vampire by Jenna Levine Leaving by Roxana Robinson (releases 2/13/24) Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke Thank you to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Fall 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. 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 A Very Inconvenient Scandal by Jacquelyn Mitchard. 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.
0:24.0	It comes to me now that when we remember the homes we grew up in,
0:28.0	we are really remembering the ways we felt in them, the people who lived in them, and the ways they cared for us.
0:39.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in October.
0:49.0	Are you wondering what books the bookshelf is recommending for gift giving this holiday season? Well, we have two upcoming virtual events designed to help you prep for the holidays.
0:58.0	On Wednesday, November 8th, we're hosting our holiday literary first look. I'll walk you through my favorite books for giving as gifts in this hour long webinar.
1:07.0	The event can be watched live at noon on November 8th, but it will also be recorded for viewing later.
1:12.0	Tickets include a PDF of the titles we discuss, as well as a discount code for purchasing any books.
1:18.0	If you've got little ones in your life, Olivia will be hosting a kids-centric literary first look on Thursday, November 9th at noon.
1:26.0	Tickets to each event are $15 a piece and can be purchased through the link in our show notes or by clicking events on the Bookshelf homepage that's bookshelftomisfill.com.
1:37.0	Now back to the show.
1:39.0	Okay, you know what? October was a delightful reading month. I'm not even going to try to wax philosophical about it. It was a good reading month for me.
1:46.0	I was able to read a lot of backlist titles. I think the pressure is a little bit off on shelf subscriptions, even though I'm still looking for a December book.
1:53.0	And so it just felt like a time when, yeah, I got to read kind of what I wanted to read, which was really refreshing.
2:01.0	So the first book that I finished was The Last Love Note. This is a debut novel by Emma Gray.
2:07.0	It's being released simultaneously on November 28th in paperback and hardcover, which I guess the consumer really might like we as booksellers are a little confused by it.
2:18.0	But either way, you can choose your own adventure paperback or hardback the cover of this definitely would categorize it as women's fiction for lack of a better phrase.
2:29.0	I really don't know a better phrase, but women's fiction, you might get into this and think it's a little bit of a romance and there is a romantic element to it.
2:38.0	But the book is mostly about Kate and Kate is a young woman about my age. She's approaching middle age and she is a recent widow and she and her husband were happily married for years and he became ill.
2:51.0	I won't I won't spoil too much for you, but you do get glimpses into her marriage to him and what their marriage looked like and the raising of their little boy and then he dies and that's not a spoiler.
3:03.0	You know it's happened pretty immediately and the book kind of flashes back and forth in various points and times so you get to see what Kate's marriage looked like, what her caregiving looked like.
3:14.0	And I found those parts of the novel particularly point anything to do with life after loss and Kate's grieving felt visceral realistic and nuanced.
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