Episode 511 || Annie Recommends: Book Club Selections

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s an episode of Annie Recommends! In this series, Annie curates a stack of books in a certain genre or theme for you – just as if you walked into our brick-and-mortar store, The Bookshelf. Sometimes, you just want a good book list. This month, Annie recommends a short list of her favorite book club selections. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search “Episode 511”) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan RiegerMargo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi ThorpeThe Women by Kristin HannahSandwich by Catherine 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 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 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. 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.
0:08.0	No. No whining in public.
0:26.2	The story gets lost.
0:28.3	All they remember is you're a whiner.
0:31.5	Susan Rieger, like mother, like mother.
0:37.1	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:41.8	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recommending some of my favorite recent book club
0:46.9	selections as you embark on your own book clubs in 2025.
0:52.0	Do you love listening to From the Front Porch every week? We hope so. Spread the word by leaving a
0:57.6	review on Apple Podcasts. All you have to do is open up the podcast app on your phone, look for
1:03.6	from the front porch, scroll down until you see write a review, then tell us what you think.
1:09.7	Here's a recent review. In one word, wholesome.
1:13.6	In writing this review, I was trying to think of a word that would sum up this podcast, and I landed
1:17.8	on Wholesome. Annie and her family are so down to earth and sound like just genuinely beautiful
1:22.8	people I'd love to get to know in real life. Our reading interests don't always align, but I can listen to them talk about any book.
1:29.7	Their love of reading really comes through, and they just want to spread that love, and I'm here for every minute of it.
1:34.9	I can't wait to visit the bookshelf in person someday.
1:38.6	Listen, it's going to bring Susie Butterworth so much joy that the words you used to describe her daughter and our family
1:46.4	and this podcast is wholesome. I mean, truly, that's going to make Susie's day. So thank you.
1:51.8	Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who've left kind words and thought full reviews for our show.
1:57.4	We're so grateful any time you share from the front porch with your friends.
2:02.0	Thank you for spreading the word about our podcast and as a result, our brick and mortar bookstore too. Now, back to the show.
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