Welcome to Episode 54 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.

And today I'm joined by customer and friend Hunter McClendon.

Hunter has been on the podcast once before and now he's back to chat

reading resolutions, the modern Mrs. Darcy reading challenge, and of course what we're reading

right now. Before we get started, I did just want to remind everyone in the new year to rate

and review us on iTunes. The iTunes algorithm kind of directs how people find podcasts. And so the more

ratings and reviews we have, the more people can find out about the bookshelf and from the

front porch. So if you like what you hear and you enjoy the conversations that we have on the

podcast, please do consider rating and reviewing us on iTunes. All right, let's get started.

Hi, Hunter. Hi, how are you? Good. Welcome back. All right, let's get started. Hi, Hunter.

Hi, how are you?

Good, welcome back.

Thank you.

It's good to be back.

Yeah, I think this will be fun.

I wanted to talk about reading resolutions with you because you're one of the few people I know

who make reading resolutions too.

So I thought you would be a good guest for this episode.

So first of all, did you have reading resolutions for 2015?

Yes. I wanted to read 12 books. No, I wanted to read 10 books a month and have it be 120 books in the year, obviously.

I only read 75, though.

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