Episode 474 || April Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in April. You get 10% off your books when you order your April 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 474” 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: Annie's April Reading Recap Bundle - $78 The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James Funny Story by Emily Henry A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan Worry by Alexandra Tanner The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James Knife River by Justine Champine (releases 5/28) Lies & Weddings by Kevin Kwan (releases 5/21) Funny Story by Emily Henry A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (releases 5/7) Thank you to this week’s sponsor, the 103rd Annual Rose Show and Festival here in Thomasville, Georgia. Held in historic Downtown Thomasville, the Rose Show & Festival is sponsored by the City of Thomasville and has been a southwest Georgia tradition since 1922. Enjoy rose and flower shows, live music, an artisan market, an antique car show, a parade and fantastic shopping and dining in Downtown Thomasville. This year’s 103rd annual event is April 26-27. 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, Tiktok, and Facebook, 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 Swift River by Essie Chambers. 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...Jennifer Bannerton, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Susan Hulings, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, and Amanda Whigham.

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. The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things
0:29.1	you weren't imaginative enough to dream up.
0:32.0	Emily Henry funny imaginative enough to dream up.
0:33.0	Emily Henry, funny story.
0:37.9	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf
0:40.1	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in April.
0:47.0	It's still not too late, it's never too late, to join Annie's five-star books on Instagram. If you didn't know for $50 a year you can become
0:56.1	a part of this bookish community online. Through my private Instagram account you'll get access
1:01.6	to my book reviews, backlist, and front list
1:04.3	titles and I host monthly Instagram lives slash Instagram stories because
1:09.1	maybe Instagram lives haven't been working on the private account. But I've been doing monthly
1:14.0	Instagram stories. I hop on there to chat books to tell you what I did and didn't
1:19.1	finish each month and then I yeah just give kind of behind the scenes looks at what I'm reading right now.
1:25.0	If you follow me personally on Instagram, you've seen my reviews for years there,
1:29.0	and of course from the Front Porch listeners, that's you, will always have access to these free monthly reading
1:34.4	recap episodes. The private Instagram is just a place where I get to be more detailed with my reviews
1:39.2	and five-star book club members can also choose if they want my five star reads mailed to them each
1:44.1	month from the bookshelf. There's a newsletter component too. So for more information or to sign
1:49.3	up for our 2024 group you can visit Annie B Jones
1:53.7	rights.com
1:55.8	forward slash five star
1:57.6	dash book
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