Episode 487 || July Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in July. You get 10% off your books when you order your July Reading Recap Bundle. Each month, we offer a Reading Recap bundle, which features Annie’s 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 487” 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: Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (releases 9/10)All the Colors of the Dark by Chris WhitakerI Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie SueMargo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi ThorpeBlue Sisters by Coco Mellors (releases 9/3)Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynnexth Jones Heavy Hitter by Katie Cotugno (releases 8/20) Annie's July Reading Recap Bundle - $77 All the Colors of the Dark by Chris WhitakerI Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie SueMargo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe 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 Entitlement by Rumaan Alam. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. 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. Who cared about sex really when what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark?
0:30.0	Rufi Thorpe, Margos, got money troubles.
0:36.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:41.2	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in July.
0:46.4	It's not too late, I know I say this every few months, it's not too late to join Annie's five-star
0:51.0	books on Instagram. For $50 a year you can become a part of this bookish community online.
0:57.0	Through the private Instagram account you'll get access to my book reviews, backlist and frontlist titles, and I host monthly Instagram's story
1:05.1	Q&As and share about the books I start but never finish. If you follow me
1:09.5	personally on Instagram, you've seen my reviews there for years, and of course, from the front porch
1:14.0	listeners will always have access to these free monthly reading recap episodes.
1:18.5	The private Instagram is just a place where I get to be more detailed with my reviews, and five-star book club members can also choose
1:24.7	if they want my five-star books mailed to them each month from the bookshelf.
1:29.6	For more information or to sign up for our 2024 group visit Annie B Jones Rights.com
1:36.0	forward slash five star dash book
1:38.3	dash club there's also a link in the show notes I'd love to have you following along there this year. Now back to the show.
1:47.3	Well, it's July and here is some behind the scenes inside baseball. I am recording this way
1:54.0	earlier than I usually do because Jordan and I are doing some traveling this
1:58.6	summer and I am batch recording earlier in the month than I would typically be batch recording.
2:05.4	The good news is I read a ton of books in June and I have a couple of June reviews that I did not
2:10.6	get to in the June reading recap episode and in July I've already read I don't know three or four I'm looking at my list I've read four books so the
2:19.9	episode won't feel abnormal to you but it does feel a little disingenuous to not
2:24.8	tell you that I'm recording earlier. I'm recording much earlier even Jordan
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