Episode 531 || May 2025 Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in May. You get 10% off your books when you order your May 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 531), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne CollinsThe Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer WeinerConsider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley Annie's May Reading Recap Bundle - $83.00 The Correspondent by Virginia Evans The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer WeinerConsider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley Adult Summer Reading Postcard Pack 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 A Change of Habit by Sister Monica Clare. 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 my life has been some strange balance of miraculous and mundane.
0:33.6	Virginia Evans, the correspondent.
0:38.5	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:43.6	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in May.
0:49.2	Before we get started, a thank you to everyone who's been leaving reviews for From the Front Porch.
0:54.8	iTunes reviews and ratings are still the best way for new listeners to find out about
0:59.9	From the Front Porch, and, as a result, discover our indie bookstore, too.
1:05.2	Here's a recent review from Esther.
1:07.8	Love it.
1:08.8	This is a great way to find books for my TBR list. That is certainly what we hope, Esther. Love it. This is a great way to find books for my TBR list. That is certainly what we hope,
1:14.6	Esther. Thank you so much for leaving a review. If you have not yet left a review, all you have to do
1:20.5	is open up the podcast app on your phone, look for from the front porch, scroll down until you see
1:26.5	write a review, and then tell us what
1:28.5	you think. Your reviews help us spread the word about not only our podcast, but about our small
1:34.4	brick and mortar business too. Now, back to the show. Okay, full disclosure, because of maternity leave and trying to get things done, I am recording
1:47.9	this episode a week earlier than I normally would be, and so my May reading has been somewhat
1:53.4	limited. That being said, I have enjoyed the books that I've read in May, and I'm tacking on a
1:59.3	few books that missed the cutoff for the April
2:01.6	reading recap as well. So I've got a few books to talk to you about, and I've got to say,
2:07.9	this has been a fun season of reading and discovery for me. Perhaps maybe I don't even know
2:16.4	what I want to share, because I feel like once you share,
2:19.9	then people tell you their opinions. But I will say that one of the things I am hopeful about
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