Episode 529 || Conquer a Classic Sneak Peek

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, we have a special treat for you: a Conquer a Classic sneak peek! Conquer a Classic is the From the Front Porch Patreon’s year-long book club where Annie, Hunter, and our Patreon community tackle a classic novel together month by month. Our pick for 2025 is the first modern novel: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Today’s episode gives you a sneak peek of our Conquer a Classic bonus episodes on Patreon. It’s not too late to join us! Here’s how to join our Conquer a Classic book club: Buy your copy of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Buy your downloadable reading guide here. Join Patreon to unlock bonus episodes with Annie and Hunter. 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 Sleep by Honor Jones. 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.

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.
0:33.9	In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset.
0:39.0	And so with too little sleep and too much reading, his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf,
0:48.3	an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. And this week, I'm talking
0:53.2	about our 2025 Conquer a Classic series for Patreon.
0:57.6	Before we get started, a thank you to everyone who's left reviews for From the Front Porch.
1:02.4	iTunes reviews and ratings continue to be how new listeners can best find out about From the Front Porch
1:08.3	and, as a result, about our indie bookstore too.
1:12.1	Here's a recent review. I'm hooked. I was looking for an independent bookstore in South
1:17.2	Georgia and found this store and podcast. Love it. Great conversation and episode themes,
1:23.4	and what a brilliant idea for supplemental content. I hope to check out the physical store someday.
1:29.2	I hope you get to come see us in Thomasville very soon. Thank you so much for this review.
1:34.5	And if you haven't left a review, all you have to do is open up the podcast app on your phone,
1:39.6	look for from the front porch, scroll down until you see write a review, and then you can tell us
1:45.1	what you think. Your reviews help us spread the word about the podcast and about our small
1:50.8	brick and mortar business too. Now back to the show. Every few episodes during our call to action,
1:58.6	I remind listeners about our From the Front Porch Patreon program.
2:02.6	For those who might not be familiar, Patreon exists as a way to support creators, writers,
2:08.0	artists in their work, and it's used by a lot of podcasts as a way to generate some additional
2:12.8	income. Your monthly Patreon support means I no longer edit and produce from the front porch, a gift I am extremely grateful for every month when I sit down to record, and particularly this year as I launch a book and a literal baby into the world.
2:29.1	So, Patreon enables from the front porch to not only exist as a marketing tool for our indie bookstore,
2:35.4	but to also generate a small amount of profit for our store as well. And it allows me to
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