Welcome to episode 45 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 joined by my manager, Rebecca Arwood. We'll be chatting about our favorite spine-tangling

reads and what we're reading right now. Before we get started, I just wanted to thank everyone

who came out and supported Thomas County's One Book 2015 program. We wrapped up things this week

with a special appearance by Gretchen Rubin, the New York

Times bestselling author of the Happiness Project. If you didn't listen to episode 44, we had

Gretchen on the podcast, which was really exciting. So go back, listen to that episode or bookmark it

for your next go around because it's really worth listening to. She had some

great things to say. So thanks for your support. If you are curious about one book in our community,

you can visit www.1.1bookthomascounty.org. All right, let's go ahead and get started.

Well, hello, Rebecca. Hi, how are you? Good. Welcome

back to the kind of sort of front porch, the living room, the living room today. Have you recovered

from one book, 2015? It was less than 24 hours ago, so we're getting there. We're getting there.

Agreed. So if we, if either of us sound like

we're in a fog of listeners, you'll know why. We are still recovering from Gretchen and all of the

happy things that we did for one book. But I wanted to shift our focus from happiness to scared,

scariness, to being scared. I wanted to do like a Halloween themed episode. So I thought we

can talk about our favorite spine-tangling reads. Oh yes. So we can talk about children's lit,

books that we like. I've got a couple of Y-A titles. I'm sure you do. So let's just dive right in.

Do you have any, I've just got a couple of children's books. Do you have any children's books?

Yes. Growing up, I loved Frank Pretty's Cooper Kids series. I like his adult novels too,

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