Episode 530 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 24

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 51 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 530) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Melinda's voicemail: Show Don’t Tell by Curtis SittenfeldFive Tuesdays in Winter by Lily KingGames & Rituals by Katherine Heiny (unavailable to order)Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly (unavailable to order)I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet by Shauna NiequistTake Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather LendeThe Book of Delights by Ross GayHere for It by R. Eric ThomasYou Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith Jessica's voicemail: Tim JohnstonStuart TurtonAndy WeirJeff VandermeerPeng ShepherdDevolution by Max BrooksLight from Uncommon Stars by Ryka AokiThe Ferryman by Justin CroninThe Gone World by Tom SweterlitschThe Fold by Peter Clines (unavailable to order)How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe by Charles YuEmily St. John Mandel Hailey's voicemail: The Women by Kristin HannahThe Last Love Note by Emma GreyDept. of Speculation by Jenny OffillBrood by Jackie Polzin (unavailable to order)Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin (unavailable to order)The Wedding People by Alison EspachShark Heart by Emily HabeckIn Praise of Slowness by Carl HonoreOlive, Again by Elizabeth StroutDinosaurs by Lydia Millet Talia's voicemail: Lady MacBeth by Ava Reid Hide by Kiersten White Lucy, Undying by Kiersten White 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 listening to Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry. 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 city change you, a season change you.
0:33.6	You are who you are, and also it's okay to love one thing and then another.
0:41.4	Shauna Nequist, I guess I haven't learned that yet.
0:45.6	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:50.2	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week, it's time for an episode of literary therapy.
0:56.1	If you like my monthly book reviews here on the podcast, you might be interested in joining my
1:00.7	private Instagram account, Annie's Five Star Books. For $50 for the year, you can become a part of
1:07.2	my bookish community online. Through the private Instagram account, you'll get access to
1:11.8	my book reviews, both backlist and front list titles. I host monthly Instagram story Q&As, share about
1:18.4	the books I start but never finish, and if you follow me personally online, you've seen my reviews
1:23.0	for years. And of course, from the front porch listeners will always have access to my free
1:28.4	monthly reading recap episodes. The private Instagram is just a place separate from the bookshelf
1:33.9	where I get to be more detailed with my reviews, and five-star book club members can also
1:38.5	choose if they want to order my five-star reads each month from the bookshelf. For more information or to sign up for the
1:45.2	2025 group, it's never too late, you can visit anniebjoneswrites.com forward slash five-star
1:52.0	dash book dash club. There's also a link in the show notes. Now, back to the show. If you are new to
2:00.3	from the front porch, every once in a while, I dive into
2:03.4	the metaphorical mailbag and peruse your readerly hangups and bookish conundrums like a literary
2:09.3	Frazier Crane, tackling your issues on air. If you have your own readerly riddle you'd like me to
2:15.9	solve in a future episode, you can leave me a voicemail at the From the Front Porch website.
2:21.0	That's from the front porch podcast.com forward slash contact.
2:25.4	As always, there's a link in the show notes too.
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