Episode 540 || From the Archives: Traveling through Books

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s another episode From the Archives! In this series, we’re sharing some of our favorite past episodes of the show while Annie is on maternity leave. Enjoy today’s episode about traveling through books. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 540) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Link to The Bookshelf's Libro.fm storefront Morgan Page's Substack, In Residence Morgan Page's podcast, That's The Spirit 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Ordinary People by Diana Evans (unavailable for purchase) L’Appart by David Leibovitz (unavailable for purchase) The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard Morais The Vacationers by Emma Straub Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter (unavailable for purchase) My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard The Next Great Jane by KJ Going (unavailable for purchase) Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Tangerine by Christine Mangan (unavailable for purchase) Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Malloy (unavailable for purchase) 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 The Names by Florence Knapp. 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.
0:27.4	Books are the plane and the train and the road.
0:31.1	They are the destination and the journey.
0:33.1	They are home.
0:42.0	Anna Quindlin, how reading changed my life. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. And this week, we're going back into the
0:47.6	From the Front Porch archives, a place not dissimilar to the Disney Vault to bring you an episode
0:53.6	all about traveling through books.
0:56.7	Before we get started, did you know Audible is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon?
1:02.1	I'm not sure I would have been fully aware of that fact were it not for my work in bookselling,
1:06.7	which is why as both a consumer of audiobooks and as a bookstore owner, I'm grateful for Libro FM and the ways they partner with independent bookstores like ours.
1:16.5	If you're not familiar, LibroFM makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks through your local bookstore.
1:22.7	Head to Libro.fm. Choose the bookstore you'd like to support, and that store will get a portion of
1:29.3	every purchase you make. You can support the bookshelf by going to Libro.fm forward slash
1:36.0	bookshelf Thomasville. There's a link in the show notes too. You can buy audiobooks a la carte,
1:41.7	or you can have a monthly membership, just like other
1:44.4	digital audiobook platforms.
1:46.7	I'm pretty sure at this point, every bookshelf staff member and member of my immediate
1:50.8	family has Libro FM membership.
1:53.8	Obviously, you can listen to audiobooks in whatever ways are most convenient to you.
1:58.5	Many of my friends use Libro FM, as well use Libby, a platform for libraries. But the
2:03.5	bookshelf has partnered with Libro FM since its inception, and it is a joy to have a platform
2:08.6	to recommend to audiobook listeners who want to support indie bookstores like ours. Plus, now is a great
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