Episode 541 || Summer Readings: A Marriage at Sea

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, we have another episode of 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 Sophie Elmhirst’s book A Marriage at Sea. Use code SUMMERREADINGS at checkout to get 10% off A Marriage at Sea. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 541) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst 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 Eights by Joanna Miller. 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 The bins, the laundry, the procession of meals. And those are the golden
0:41.5	days, it turns out. The blissful, boring days that you long for when things go wrong.
0:49.3	Sophie Elmhurst, a marriage at sea. I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in
0:56.7	beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. And this week, we're back with another episode in our
1:01.7	summer reading series. Before we get started, are you keeping up with all of the bookshelf events?
1:08.3	It's true, summers are a little quieter in the shop. I'm not sure if you've
1:12.0	heard, but it gets a little hot and humid down here, but there is still plenty going on and plenty
1:17.4	that our team is scheduling for fall. Maybe you think our events are just for locals. But even if you're
1:24.2	not a nearby listener or customer, we have plans in the books for you, too.
1:29.5	From our fall reader retreat to our literary first look programs to our holiday shopping nights,
1:35.4	we plan specific events for our long-distance customers and friends.
1:40.2	So to keep up, we have a couple of options for you.
1:43.1	Choose the one that makes the most sense for you.
1:45.7	You can follow us on Instagram at Bookshelf Teaville, where we post regularly about in-store and virtual happenings.
1:53.4	You can subscribe to our store newsletter, which lands in your inbox every Thursday and has a complete rundown of shop events.
2:00.7	Or you can check our website,
2:02.9	which Erin keeps updated with event details, dates, tickets, and more. There are links to all of the
2:09.1	above in the show notes. So links to our Instagram, the newsletter, and the website. Summer might be
2:14.5	quiet, but we are already gearing up for fall, and we want you to be a part of it.
2:19.7	Now, back to the show.
2:22.1	When I found out I was pregnant and realized, oh, this really is happening, I tried to
2:27.1	brainstorm ways to keep the podcast coming to you regularly this summer.
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