Episode 547 || Off the Shelf with Annie & Ashley: Autumn

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, it's an episode of Off the Shelf with Annie & Ashley! Annie is joined by friend, cousin, and former colleague, Ashley Sherlock, to chat about what they’re reading – but also what they’re watching, listening to, and buying. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 547) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie is reading: The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand28 Summers by Elin HilderbrandSummer of ‘69 by Elin HilderbrandBuckeye by Patrick Ryan Ashley is reading: The Will of the Many by James IslingtonThe Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer WeinerPalm Meridian by Grace Flahive Thank you to this week’s sponsor, Discover Thomasville. Gracefully tucked within the storied Red Hills of South Georgia, Thomasville curates a distinguished Downtown experience that meanders along several blocks of our iconic red brick streets. Here, bespoke boutiques, master craftsmen, coveted antique art purveyors, and celebrated culinary artisans converge in harmony with the cultural richness of the Pebble Hill Plantation art tour and the tranquil allure of Birdsong Nature Center. Here, you Discover the Soul of the South. Here, you Discover Thomasville. Learn more by visiting thomasvillega.com/news. 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 Wilderness by Angela Flournoy. 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 life in the South.
0:28.5	Even the most unbearable things become fossils after a while.
0:31.5	Patrick Ryan, Buckeye.
0:36.7	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia,
0:38.0	and this week I'm chatting about autumnal off-the-shelf topics with my cousin Ashley Sherlock.
0:44.2	If you are a new or newish listener, you might not realize that from the front porch is a production
0:51.2	of the bookshelf, a small, independently owned bookstore in rural
0:54.6	South Georgia. By listening to our show and recommending it to your friends, you are helping
0:59.5	keep our indie bookstore in business. And if you like what you hear, one way you can
1:04.4	financially support us is through Patreon. Last year, as you know, I think by now, we read the
1:10.4	classic American novel, Lonesome Dove, together with over 1,000 Patreon supporters.
1:15.7	And this year, we've been conquering the world literature classic Don Quixote by Miguel Deservantes.
1:22.8	For $5 a month, you can access my monthly Conquer A Classic Recaps with Hunter McClendon, as well as our porch visits, which are monthly live Q&As, where we talk
1:32.4	about everything from pop culture to nail polish to what books you should take on your next
1:37.3	vacation. And coming up later this fall, we are already getting ready to announce our
1:42.6	2026 Conquer a Classic selection, and the
1:45.9	first folks to know about that are our Patreon supporters. So to learn more about Patreon tiers and
1:51.6	benefits, just visit patreon.com forward slash from the front porch. Now, back to the show. Welcome back,
1:59.6	Ashley. Hey, hey. It's time to go off the shelf for our
2:03.8	recurring episode series. Today, we are talking about books, yes, but also articles, TV shows,
2:09.0	pop culture, and how we're gearing up for fall, which we're recording that, I mean, spoiler
2:15.7	alert, we're recording this at the end of August. Fall is a little bit hard for me to imagine. Perhaps you feel differently, but it feels like it's not quite here yet. But I believe when this episode airs, it'll be the first week of fall. So we're going to talk about some autumnal things. We're looking forward to reading, some things we've been watching, et cetera, et cetera. Ashley, now that you live somewhere where you get a fall,
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