Episode 512 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 23

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s a Literary Therapy session! Our literary Frasier Crane, Annie, is back to answer more of your reading questions and dilemmas. If you have a question you would like Annie to answer in a future episode, you can leave us a voicemail here. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search “Episode 512”) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Play for Me by Libby Hubscher A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie IrwinBetter Than the Movies by Lynn Painter The Life Council by Laura TremaineBegin Again by Helly ActonLimelight by Amy Poeppel Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel The Second Ending by Michelle HoffmanIf We’re Being Honest by Cat ShookNow You See Us by Balli Kaur JaswalTake Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather Lende Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe Live from New York by James Andrew Miller and Tom ShalesA Very Punchable Face by Colin JostI’ll BeThere for You by Kelsey MillerThe Office by Andy GreeneProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirDark Matter by Blake Crouch The Frozen River by Ariel LawhonAll the Colors of the Dark by Chris WhitakerKill Show by Daniel Sweren-BeckerThe Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (unavailable to order)The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’DonoghueLeaving by Roxana Robinson It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway by Elizabeth Passarella (unavailable to order)Congratulations! The Best Is Over by R. Eric ThomasI Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet by Shauna NiequistNobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess KalbFrom Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley KeoughI’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly BishopTaste by Stanley Tucci 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 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. 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.
0:28.4	I am good at a few things, but I am great at being married.
0:39.8	As I learned that year in Shandon Street, there is nothing that my personality or my humor thrives on more than being able to see the same person at the same time every day. I thrive on overexposure, on elaborate jokes, on private mythology.
0:47.9	Caroline O'Donohue, The Rachel Incident.
0:53.1	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:58.1	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week, it's time for an episode of literary therapy.
1:04.1	If you like my book reviews here on the podcast, you might be interested in joining my
1:08.5	private Instagram account, Annie's five-star books.
1:12.3	For $50 a year, you can become a part of my bookish community online.
1:17.4	Through the private Instagram account, you'll get access to my book reviews,
1:21.1	backlist, and front list titles, and I host monthly Instagram story Q&As
1:25.6	and frequently share about the books I start but never finish.
1:29.8	If you have followed me personally online on Instagram, you've seen my reviews for years,
1:34.4	and of course, from the front porch listeners will always have access to free monthly reading recap episodes.
1:40.4	The private Instagram is a place separate from the bookshelf where I get to be more detailed with my reviews,
1:46.1	and five-star book club members can also choose if they want my five-star picks every month,
1:51.2	mailed to them from the store. For more information or to sign up for 2025, you can visit
1:57.1	Annie B.joneswrites.com forward slash five-star star dash book dash club i know that's a mouthful so
2:04.2	you can also find a link in the show notes this is one of my favorite changes i made to my business
2:09.0	practices back in 2023 where i kind of broke out and tried to have something that belonged to
2:16.0	annie b j Jones instead of belonged to
2:17.9	the bookshelf. It's a whole thing that I talk about with my business coach. You don't need to
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