Episode 553 || October 2025 Reading Recap

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 46 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 October Reading Recap bundle. 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 553), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O’Neill Often I Am Happy by Jens Christian Grondahl - unavailable on ingram Fake Skating by Lynn Painter More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell Bone Valley by Gilbert King October Reading Recap bundle 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 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. 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.
0:30.4	This was the city he believed in, the city in which knowing somebody once was knowing them forever.
0:38.5	Everything beautiful and everything useful about the city could be found in these relationships of dependence.
0:42.4	Meghamunjumdar, a guardian and a thief.
0:48.2	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm recapping the books I read in October.
0:53.5	Before we get started, a thank you to everyone
0:56.0	who's left reviews for From the Front Porch. iTunes reviews and ratings are how new listeners
1:01.5	can best find out about From the Front Porch and, as a result, find out about our indie bookstore
1:07.2	too. Here's a recent review from Crystal. I'm a busy mom of four, and I confess I
1:13.6	listen to your podcast every day. Listening to you while I fold laundry or do dishes, even the car
1:19.0	running errands is truly the best. I really enjoy catching up with older episodes while on my morning
1:24.2	and evening walks. The new release rundowns are some of my favorites.
1:29.5	Annie is sunshine in a podcast.
1:31.3	Olivia's laughter is contagious,
1:34.3	and I love that you can hear the warmth in Aaron's voice.
1:36.9	I absolutely adore Susie.
1:39.2	She has me laughing out loud and truly wishing I was curled up on a couch beside her,
1:40.9	just chatting all things bookish.
1:43.1	Thank you all so much for the hard work you put
1:45.3	into everything you do. Thank you so much. If you have not left a review, all you have to do is
1:51.3	open up the podcast app on your phone, look for from the front porch, scroll down until you see
1:56.8	write a review, and then tell us what you think. Your reviews help us spread the word about not only
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