Episode 527 || April Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in April. You get 10% off your books when you order your April Reading Recap. Each month, we offer a Reading Recap bundle, which features Annie’s favorite books she read that month. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 527), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst (releases 7/8) Flashlight by Susan Choi (releases 6/3)Heartwood by Amity GaigeThings in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li (releases 5/20)Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry April Reading Recap Pairing - $50 Heartwood by Amity Gaige Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry 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 Expecting Better by Emily Oster. 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	The Facts alone couldn't communicate the interior experience of being alone for so long in the blankness of the ocean.
0:32.9	Out of time, the only structure the rising and the setting of the sun.
0:39.2	Sophie Elmhurst, a marriage at sea.
0:43.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:47.9	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in April.
0:53.4	Before we get started, a thank you to everyone who's left
0:56.6	reviews for From the Front Porch. iTunes reviews and ratings are still how new listeners can best
1:02.3	find out about From the Front Porch, and as a result, find out about our indie bookstore, too.
1:09.0	Here's a recent review from Lori Ann. Great book suggestions.
1:13.8	A great resource for reading suggestions. Annie provides details to help every type of reader find new
1:19.7	books to enjoy, and she's delightful to listen to. Thank you for thinking so, Lori Ann. If you have
1:26.3	not left a review, all you have to do is open up the podcast app on your phone, look for from the front porch, scroll down until you see write a review, and then tell us what you think. Your reviews help us spread the word about not only our podcast, but about our small brick and mortar business too. Now, back to the show. Okay, y'all, I was
1:48.2	worried about April. I was worried about April because it was the release of ordinary time
1:53.6	into the world. I just wasn't sure how much bandwidth I would have for reading. And I didn't have much. I was right. I was right about that.
2:04.1	But what I did read, I really liked. And that's the good news. And so we're going to be, I mean,
2:10.8	quantity wasn't bad, but we're going to mostly focus on quality today. Quality over quantity. So I kicked off the month, actually ended
2:20.5	March, with a marriage at sea. This is the book that I led the episode with. It's by Sophie
2:26.3	Elmhurst. This is a work of nonfiction that totally intrigued me when I was going through
2:32.0	publisher catalog. So this does not release until July 8th.
2:35.5	So this is a book that you'll need to pre-order or request from your local library.
2:39.8	But I think it's completely a summer book.
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