Episode 517 || Off the Shelf with Annie & Ashley: Winter

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 48 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 517”), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie is reading: Tilt by Emma Pattee (releases March 25th) The Favorites by Layne Fargo Ashley is reading: The Women by Kristin HannahPlayworld by Adam RossBark by Lorrie Moore 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 I've Got Questions by Erin H. Moon. Ashley is reading The Magic of Knowing What You Want by Tracey Gee. 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.
0:29.6	Thank you. A flower delivery truck with the back open, bouquets spilling out into the street. I walk right over them.
0:31.6	Tulips and roses and little white sprigs of baby's breath.
0:35.6	Nobody needs flowers at the end of the world.
0:40.7	Emma Patty. Tilt.
0:45.6	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:50.0	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm chatting about wintry off-the-shelf topics with my cousin
0:55.9	Ashley Sherlock. If you are a new or newish listener, you might not realize that from the front
1:01.6	porch is a production of the bookshelf, a small independently owned bookstore in rural South Georgia.
1:07.6	By listening to our show and recommending it to your friends, you're helping to keep
1:11.8	our indie bookstore in business. And if you like what you hear, one way you can financially
1:16.5	support us is through Patreon. Last year, we read the classic American novel Loansome Dove
1:22.3	with over 1,000 Patreon supporters, and in January, we kicked off our 2025 reading of Don Quixote.
1:29.9	For $5 a month, you can access our monthly Conqueror Classic Recaps, as well as our porch
1:35.3	visits, monthly live Q&As, where we talk about everything from pop culture to nail polish,
1:41.2	to what books you should take on your next vacation.
1:45.7	To learn more about our other Patreon tiers and benefits, just visit patreon.com forward slash from the front porch. Now, back to the show.
1:53.9	Welcome back, Ashley. Thank you so much. Long time, no talk, except we talk, just not on air.
2:02.3	Right.
2:03.2	On air, I can't look at you when you're doing the intro because it's like laughing in church.
2:09.3	Even though I've seen you do it before, it makes me laugh a little bit every time.
2:12.9	I hide my face.
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