Episode 516 || Annie Recommends: Rom-Coms

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 29 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. This month, Annie recommends a short list of her favorite rom-coms. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search “Episode 516”) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell Back After This by Linda Holmes (releases 2/25/25) The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan Passion Project by London Sperry (releases 4/8/25) 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 How to Sleep at Night by Elizabeth Harris. 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...Beth, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, Jammie Treadwell, 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.
0:08.0	As Joy As Julie always said, Apple Podcasts is figuratively littered with the bodies of people whose last words were, how hard can it be?
0:33.6	Linda Holmes, back after this. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:40.9	Thomasville, Georgia.
0:42.1	And this week, I'm recommending some rom-coms for your February reading.
0:47.1	Do you love listening to From the Front Porch every week?
0:49.6	I hope so.
0:50.7	Otherwise, why are you here?
0:52.7	You can spread the word by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.
0:56.7	All you have to do is open up the podcast app on your phone, look for from the front porch,
1:01.8	scroll down until you see write us a review, and then tell us what you think. Here's a recent review.
1:07.8	A book club in my pocket. As a busy teacher who loves books, sometimes it's hard
1:12.7	for me to find a local book club that works with my schedule. But thanks to From the Front Porch,
1:17.5	I now have a weekly book club that goes with me everywhere. Annie and friends are thoughtful, funny,
1:23.1	and knowledgeable, and I love getting to adopt the bookshelf as my own far-away indie bookstore.
1:28.7	There's something for everyone in these episodes.
1:31.1	Reviews, recaps, recommendations for the rom-com, fantasy, horror, and general lit-lover.
1:36.5	Sit down, press play, and stay a while.
1:39.1	You won't regret it.
1:40.9	I quite literally couldn't have said it better myself.
1:43.4	Thank you so much to this kind
1:45.2	reviewer for totally understanding why we do what we do and what we do. Thank you so much.
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