Episode 492 || August Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 50 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 August 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 492” 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: The Perfect Couple by Elin Hildebrand It Had to Be You by Eliza Jane Brazier What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci (releases 10/15) Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger (releases 10/29) Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (unavailable to order) Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy Worst Case Scenario by TJ Newman JFK Jr. by Rosemarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil Annie's August Reading Recap Bundle - $69 The Perfect Couple by Elin Hildebrand Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy Worst Case Scenario by TJ Newman 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 listening to It Wasn’t Roaring It Was Weeping by Lisa Jo Baker. 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. What I would like is the opportunity to remain at a certain age of my choosing for an extended period.
0:30.0	Just take a slight pause in the aging process for, let's say, 10 to 20 years.
0:36.0	I think this is a perfectly reasonable request and someone needs to make it happen.
0:40.0	If that someone is interested, I would choose to remain 40 years of age for a decade or so.
0:46.0	At 40, one is mature, is experienced in both love and loss, success and failure, is probably not yet in need of eyeglasses, can still
0:56.2	awaken in the morning and move through the day without joint pain and muscle aches, and has a memory
1:01.7	that is still intact. At 40, one is not old, one has just reached the beginning
1:07.2	of middle age and is on the cusp of being distinguished.
1:13.0	Stanley Tucci, what I ate in one year.
1:17.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in August.
1:27.4	I know we are over halfway through the year, but as a reminder, if you like the reviews you hear on our reading recap episodes of From the
1:34.8	Front Porch you might be interested in joining Annie's five-star books on
1:38.9	Instagram. For $50 for the year you can become a part of this bookish community online.
1:44.8	Through this private Instagram account you'll get access to my book reviews, which includes of
1:49.1	course backlist and frontless titles.
1:51.1	I host monthly Instagram Story, Q&As, and share about the books I start, but never finish.
1:57.2	If you follow me personally on Instagram, you've seen my book reviews there for years, and of course,
2:01.6	from the Front Por porch listeners will always have
2:03.5	access to these free monthly reading recap episodes. The private
2:07.1	Instagram is just a place where I get to be more detailed with my reviews and
2:10.3	five-star book club members also can choose if they want my five star reads
2:14.7	mailed to them each month from the bookshelf.
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