Episode 548 || September 2025 Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in August. You get 10% off your books when you order your September Reading Recap. Each month, we offer a Reading Recap bundle, which features Annie’s favorite books she read that month. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 548), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Your Favorite Scary Movie by Ashley Cullins So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder (releases 2/17/26)Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron RindoBest Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino (releases 11/25/25) Annie's September Reading Recap Bundle - $46 Your Favorite Scary Movie by Ashley Cullins Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo 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 Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower. 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.
0:31.6	The locals of the town wanted to grant anyone who came to town the one freedom Americans typically refused to honor. The freedom to fail without punishment were censure.
0:35.6	Ron Rindo, Life and Death and Giants.
0:41.4	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf and independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:46.0	Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in September.
0:51.8	Before we get started, as usual, a thank you to everyone who has left reviews for
0:56.7	From the Front Porch. iTunes, reviews, and ratings are how new listeners can best find out about
1:02.4	From the Front Porch and, as a result, find out about our indie bookstore too. Here's a recent
1:08.7	review from Roxy. Listening to From the Front Porch is my comfort cast.
1:14.2	I appreciate the bookish discussions, recommendations, and above all else the calming voices from a
1:20.0	southern bookstore that helps a stressed out woman in beautiful Northern Michigan. Thank you.
1:25.9	Thank you, Roxy, and I am so thrilled and delighted that we can be
1:29.9	a little bit of calm, maybe, in the chaos. If you haven't left a review yet, all you have to do
1:35.3	is open up the podcast app on your phone, look for from the front porch, scroll down until you
1:41.0	see write a review, and then tell us what you think.
1:50.1	Your reviews help us spread the word about not only our podcast, but about our small brick and mortar business too.
1:53.1	Now, back to the show.
2:04.7	If you're keeping track, I believe I read in the double digits in August, and I am here to tell you that is not the case for September.
2:12.1	Pride cometh before the fall, and I was so proud and excited and thrilled that I read so many books in August, especially coming out of maternity leave, reentering life at the bookstore, having life with a baby.
2:21.6	And man, September just slapped me right in the face. And I think that's just because work
2:26.4	became stressful in September. And I also became quite frenetic in starting a lot of things, but not finishing a ton of things.
2:38.8	And that is A, unusual.
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