Episode 537 || Summer Readings: It's a Love Story

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, we have a new episode series: Summer Readings! In this series, Annie introduces you to one book you should read this summer by reading an excerpt (with permission from publishers). Today, Annie reads a passage from the delightful Annabel Monaghan’s new rom-com It’s a Love Story. Use code SUMMERREADINGS to get 10% off It's a Love Story and all of Annabel's backlist titles this week. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 537) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: It's A Love Story by Annabel Monaghan Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan 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 One Last Summer by Kate Spencer. 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	This This feels like wealth, I think.
0:27.3	This is the thing you save up for.
0:30.4	You live your whole life so that you can be surrounded by too many people in too small of a room
0:36.0	and tell the story of how it all happened.
0:40.0	Annabelle Monaghan, it's a love story.
0:44.2	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:48.8	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week we're kicking off our summer readings series.
0:57.5	Before we get started, are you keeping up with all of the bookshelves events? It is true, summers are a little quieter in the shop. I don't know if
1:02.6	you've heard, but it gets a little hot and humid down here, but we still have plenty going on and plenty
1:08.5	that is already being scheduled for the fall. Maybe you think our events are
1:13.5	just for locals, but even if you are not a nearby listener or customer, we've got plans in the
1:18.8	books for you too. From our fall reader retreat to our literary first look programs to our
1:24.9	holiday shopping night, we plan specific events for our long-distance
1:28.8	customers and friends too.
1:30.7	We don't want you to be left out.
1:32.4	So to keep up, you've got a couple of options, and you can choose the one that makes the
1:36.2	most sense for you.
1:37.4	You can follow us on Instagram, where we post regularly about in-store and virtual
1:42.2	happenings.
1:43.5	You can subscribe to our store newsletter,
1:45.5	which lands in your inbox every Thursday, and has a complete rundown of our shop events.
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