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From the Front Porch

Episode 461 || January Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in January. You get 10% off your books when you order your January Reading Recap bundle! Each month, we offer a Reading Recap bundle, which features Annie’s three favorite books she read that month. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (type “Episode 461” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: January Reading Recap Bundle - $78 Mother, Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins Family Family by Laurie Frankel Come & Get It by Kiley Reid All books mentioned in this episode: Mother, Nature by Jedidiah Jenkins Dixon, Descending by Karen Outen Family Family by Laurie Frankel Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley Come & Get It by Kiley Reid 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 Homestead by Melinda Moustakis. 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. We translate We transition from going to returning. Like the winter solstice, there is a moment

0:30.0

where the whole earth shifts, the planet turning its north pole back toward the sun.

0:35.6

We cannot feel this, but many of the biggest changes in nature, in life, go unnoticed. They happen without the moment ever being named.

0:47.0

Jettadiah Jenkins Mother Nature.

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I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf Mother Nature.

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I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown

0:57.2

Thomasville, Georgia.

0:58.8

And this week I'm recapping the books I read in January. It's not too late to join Annie's five-star books on Instagram.

1:06.0

For $50 a year you can become a part of my bookish community online.

1:10.0

Through the private Instagram account you'll get access to my book reviews, backlist, and

1:15.1

frontlist titles.

1:16.1

I'll host monthly Instagram Lives, hop on stories to chat books and occasionally even share

1:21.7

about the books I start but never finish.

1:24.0

If you follow me personally on Instagram, you've seen my reviews for years

1:28.0

and of course from the Front Porch listeners will always have access to these free monthly reading recap episodes. The private

1:33.9

Instagram is just a place where I get to be more detailed with my reviews and

1:36.9

five-star book club members can also choose if they want to receive my five-star

1:40.9

reads each month in the mail from the bookshelf.

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For more information or to sign up for our 2024 group

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visit Annie B Jones Rights.

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com forward slash five star dash book

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dash club there's also a link in the show notes

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