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From the Front Porch

Episode 452 || From the Front Porch Live with Annabel Monaghan

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving! We’re so grateful for you. This week on From the Front Porch, we have a special treat: a recording of our live show from The Bookshelf’s September Reader Retreat! In this episode, Annie, Hunter, and Ashley are joined by extra-special guest Annabel Monaghan, our Reader Retreat featured author, to do a snake draft of their favorite fall things. Enjoy! To purchase or preorder Annabel Monaghan’s books, stop by the store or visit our website: Nora Goes Off Script Same Time Next Summer Summer Romance (releases June 4, 2024) 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.  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 When in Rome by Sarah Adams. 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

Music

0:24.0

November, with uncanny witchery in its changed trees, was murky red sunsets flaming and smoky crimson behind the western hills.

0:34.0

With deer days when austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes,

0:43.0

days full of a fine pale sunshine that sifted through the late leafless gold of the juniper trees and glimmered among the grey beaches,

0:52.0

lighting up evergreen banks of moss and washing the colonnades of the pines.

0:58.0

L. M. Montgomery, the blue castle.

1:01.0

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,

1:07.0

and this week we're bringing you our From the Front porch live recording with special guests Hunter McClendon and Annabelle Monahan.

1:15.0

At the end of September, we hosted our Fall 2023 Reader Retreat, and one of our retreat events is always a live From the Front porch podcast recording.

1:25.0

For our September recording, we brought back the draft format, which you may have heard in our previous romcom episode,

1:32.0

and we drafted our favorite things about Fall with Ashley Sherlock as our moderator.

1:37.0

And things got playfully pretty heated.

1:41.0

I thought this episode would be a fun listen as we wrap up the autumn season.

1:45.0

Happy Thanksgiving, by the way.

1:47.0

Obviously, the sound quality is always a little different with these live episodes, but I hope you enjoy hearing our insights,

1:52.0

as well as the fun we have, so much fun, when listeners are in the room with us.

1:57.0

If you like what you hear, you might want to consider joining us for our next live podcast event,

2:02.0

which is tentatively set for March 2024.

2:05.0

The event will be part of our Spring Reader Retreat, but we'll be selling a few general admission tickets as well.

2:11.0

Tickets aren't available yet. We are so very much in quarter form mode over here,

2:16.0

but you can sign up for our stored newsletter through our store website, that's bookshelftomisville.com,

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