Episode 569 || Off the Shelf with Annie & Ashley: Winter 2026

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 45 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 569) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Annie reading: Kin by Tayari Jones The Reservation by Rebecca Kauffman Ashley reading: Lit by Mary Karr The Secret Place by Tana French Annie listening to: This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum Ashley listening to: Beth’s Dead 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 Kin by Tayari Jones. Ashley is reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. 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...Ashley Ferrell, Beth, Cammy Tidwell, Gene Queens, Jammie Treadwell, Joseph Shorter IV, Kimberly, Linda Lee Drozt, Nicole Marsee, Stephanie Dean, and Wendi Jenkins.

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.
0:08.0	How you get there is how you'll be there.
0:28.6	Tiari Jones.
0:30.5	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown
0:36.9	Thomasville,
0:42.4	Georgia, and this week I'm chatting about Wintree off-the-shelf topics with my cousin,
0:43.3	Ashley Sherlock.
0:49.6	If you're craving more from the front porch, or if you want to listen to episodes ad-free,
0:51.0	join us on Patreon.
0:56.0	This year, listener favorite Hunter McClendon and I are sharing our monthly recaps of our conquering of the complete stories by Flannery O'Connor.
1:00.4	Episodes air on the last Friday of each month, and it's never too late to start reading or listening
1:05.4	or to cajole friends and family into joining us too.
1:09.2	To join Patreon, just visit patreon.com forward slash from the front porch.
1:14.6	Three tiers are available.
1:16.4	The $5 a month tier will give you access to our Conquer a Classic episodes, including
1:21.0	our back catalog of episodes, and our monthly porch visit Q&A sessions.
1:26.6	The $20 a month tier will give you ad-free episodes of From the Front Porch,
1:30.7	plus a deep dive into some of Flannery O'Connor's other works.
1:34.6	We hope you'll join us.
1:36.7	Now, back to the show.
1:38.9	Welcome back, Ashley.
1:40.7	Thank you, thank you.
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