Episode 463 || Annie Recommends: Romcoms

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, we have a new series: Annie Recommends! In this series, Annie curates a stack of books in a certain genre or criteria for you – just as if you walked into our brick-and-mortar store, The Bookshelf. Sometimes, you just want a good book list. This month, in honor of February and Valentine’s Day, Annie recommends a short list of her favorite romcoms and romances. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (type “Episode 463” 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: Betting on You by Lynn Painter Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin Love Buzz by Neeli Tubati Alexander The Bodyguard by Katherine Center 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 below. 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 So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls by Jennifer Keishin Armstong. 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. Maybe call. Maybe Karma was a girl in glasses.
0:27.0	Lynn Painter, betting on you.
0:32.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful
0:36.7	downtown Thomasville Georgia and this week we're launching a new podcast
0:40.7	series we're calling Annie recommends. Do you love listening to
0:44.6	From the Front Porch every week? You can spread the word by leaving a review on
0:48.2	Apple Podcasts. All you have to do is open up the podcast app on your phone.
0:52.3	Look for From the front porch,
0:54.8	scroll down until you see write a review and then tell us what you think. Here's a recent review.
1:01.4	Relaxing. I absolutely adore Annie's podcast. I turn it on every evening while I
1:06.5	tidy the kitchen after dinner and fold laundry or piddle around. You should really
1:11.1	narrate a book. Part of the reason I wanted to feature this review
1:15.5	was because it sounds like my mom. I don't think my mom wrote this review, but I
1:19.3	never hear anybody use the phrase, piddle around except my mom. but maybe it's a southern thing and I just
1:24.8	want to thank whoever wrote this review because she made me smile.
1:28.3	Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who've left kind words and thoughtful reviews for our show.
1:33.6	We are so grateful anytime you share from the front porch with your friends,
1:37.3	thank you for spreading the word about our podcast and,
1:40.1	as a result, our independent bookstore. Now back to the show.
1:45.6	Sometimes you just want a good book list. We at the bookshelf know this because
1:50.1	customers come in store or email Aaron all the time asking for recommendations
1:54.8	based on a specific genre or criteria.
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