Episode 572 || What Would Susie Read?

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week on From the Front Porch, Annie chats with her mom, Susie, about books for readers with PG-13 tastes. You get 10% off the Susie-approved reads mentioned in this episode when you use code SHOPMOMSELECTS at checkout online and in-store! To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 572), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Hurricane Season by Lauren K Denton The Chancellor's Mansion: A Renovation Story of Family, Home, History, and Mystery by Jamie Arty A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband,Career, and Everything I Owned to Become A Nun by Sister Monica Claire Awake: A Memoir by Jen Hatmaker Summer Light on Nantucket by Nancy Thayer A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan The Women on Platform Two by Laura Anthony Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn Something to Look Forward To by Fanny Flagg Marce Catlett: The Fore of a Story by Wendell Berry My Beloved: A Mitford Novel by Jan Karon Theo of Golden by Allen Levi The Sisters of Book Row by Shelly Noble 100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist's Guide to a Happy Life by Dick Van Dyke More Than Enough by Anna Quindlan 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 listening to Annie is reading Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan. Susie is reading The Little Bookshop by the Harbor by Jean Stone. 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.

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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.
0:26.7	Sadness can make us bitter or wise.
0:28.7	We get to choose.
0:31.4	Alan Levi.
0:33.1	Theo of Golden.
0:38.8	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia, and this week I'm finally back talking to my mom, a beloved guest,
0:43.9	about books for readers with PG-13 tastes. Do you love listening to From the Front Porch every week?
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1:29.6	Thank you, Brandy, for truly understanding the purpose of our show.
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1:37.9	From the Front Porch.
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1:43.1	the word about our podcast and our indie bookstore too. Hi, Mom. Hi, Annie. Welcome back. It's so good to be back.
1:51.7	It's been a long time. There's been a book and a baby, just nothing much, a grandm mommy, and so just a lot
1:59.0	going on. Yeah. The last time you were on, so we're on episode 572, that's today's episode. The last time you were on was 535. Wow. So you've probably read a lot of books. I did read a lot of books. So if you are a new listener to From the Front Porch, Mom comes on the show. I do think this year you're coming two or three times. I think I've already got you on the books. But she comes on board to talk. We have determined it's not PG. That's really not fair. And also that's just difficult. That would have to be a kid's book, really. But PG-13 or books, I think we decided redemptive stories.
2:35.7	Yes.
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