Episode 495 || Off the Shelf with Annie and Ashley: Autumn

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it's an episode of Off the Shelf with Annie & Ashley! Annie is joined by friend, cousin, and former colleague, Ashley Sherlock, to chat about what they’re reading – but also what they’re watching, listening to, and buying. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search “Episode 495” to find the books mentioned in this episode), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie is reading: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (out 9/24) The X-Files: Perihelion by Claudia Gray The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave Ashley is reading: The Match by Sarah AdamsI’ll Have What He’s Having by Adib KhorramThe God of the Woods by Liz Moore Annie is watching: Mean Girls X-Files Emily in Paris The Perfect Couple Gilmore Girls Trap Ashley is watching: Emily in Paris Gilmore Girls Palm Springs Plus One Once Upon a Mattress Six Annie is listening to: Max Richter Working, “How to Be Both Critic and Creator” Key Life, “Has Magic Ever Been Ruined In Your Journey” Ashley is listening to: “Without You” by Lana Del Ray Annie is buying: “Life Is Pain” sweatshirt Fall essential oils Trader Joe’s pumpkin haul Ashley is buying: Bear Snacks Fall sweater from Cider Shark bracelet from Fahlo Perfect bars Shelby Van Pelt, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures, is coming to Thomasville, GA! The Bookshelf has joined the Thomas County Library to celebrate their One Book Thomas County program. For 10 years, the Thomas County Library has hosted South Georgia’s first (and only!) One Book program, where our entire community reads the same book together and celebrates that book with literary events. The 2024 One Book Thomas County pick is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. Our celebration of this beloved book will culminate in a visit from Shelby Van Pelt at the Thomasville Center for the Arts on Thursday, October 3. Tickets are just $10 and can be found in-store at The Bookshelf or online at onebookthomascounty.org. Visit onebookthomascounty.org for more details about this year’s event. We hope to see you there! 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 The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave. Ashley is listening to Honeybee by Dawn O'Porter (unavailable to order). 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.

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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. You believe there is something? She asks. I try to, yeah, I've been answers. Some kind of order in the universe at least. I do feel that sometimes, listening to certain
0:36.2	music or looking at art, even playing chess, although that might sound weird. It's like the
0:41.8	order is so deep and it's so beautiful. I feel like there must be
0:44.8	something underneath it all. And at other times I think it's just chaos and there's nothing.
0:56.0	Sally Rooney Intermezzo. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm
1:05.2	chatting about autumnal off-the-shelf topics with my cousin Ashley Sherlock.
1:10.8	This month the Bookshelf has joined the Thomas County Library to celebrate our area One Book Program.
1:17.0	For 11 years the Thomas County Library has hosted South Georgia's first and only One Book Program, where our entire community reads the same book together
1:25.6	and celebrates that book with a variety of literary events. This year we are reading
1:31.0	remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pelt and our
1:34.7	celebration of this beloved book will culminate in a visit from the author at the
1:38.8	Thomasville Center for the Arts on Thursday October 3rd.
1:43.0	Tickets are just $10 and can be found in store at the bookshelf or online at
1:48.4	W.1 Book Thomas County.org.
1:52.6	You have plenty of time to get tickets and to read remarkably bright creatures along with
1:56.5	us.
1:57.5	Grab your copy at the bookshelf, the library, or read along with us from far away
2:01.2	by snagging a copy at your own local indie.
2:04.0	Then visit one book Thomas county.org for more details about this year's event.
2:09.0	We hope to see you there.
2:10.0	Now, back to the show.
2:12.0	Hi Ashley, hello happy fall welcome back.
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