Welcome to episode 50 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business,

and life in the South. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in

beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and today I'm recapping the books I read in November.

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and rate or review us there. All right, let's go ahead and get started. First of all, I have to say

that I am recording this in my living room today. It is raining outside. It is 80 degrees. It is

December 16th. So kind of frustrating to not be cold at Christmas and my dog is

snoring in the background. And I will do my best to edit it out, but you have been warned. So

that is Junie B. All right. So here's the deal. November and December are super busy. December,

my reading game has been completely off. I've read a few things I've enjoyed.

November was okay. I still was able to get a few books read in the month of November,

but it's just a chaotic last couple of months of the year. I forget every year

just how hard November and December are. I think it might be akin to women in childbirth and how

right after you have your baby, you forget how painful childbirth was, something like that,

I think I've heard. That is what it's like to work

retail in November and December. You forget how busy and hectic and wonderful, but chaotic it is.

And so November and December, I just don't do as much reading as I would like to do. That being

said, I still tackle, let's see, six books in November, which is pretty good.

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