Welcome to episode 58 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.

And today, I'll be recapping the books I read in February.

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It's really easy.

It doesn't take very long at all.

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But this really helps us spread the word about the bookshelf, about the podcast. So if you are so

inclined, I'd love it if you would rate or review us on iTunes. It would really mean a lot to the

bookshelf and to the podcast. So let's go ahead and get started. In January, I think I read

nine books. So February was a little different. I read

six books and I'm actually almost done with one. I'm recording this on March 1st, so I guess

that'll be a March read, but I may go ahead and give you my two cents on it before we

head into March. It was a good reading month. February is a little quieter in the

store, but it was also busy personally, so kind of hard to find time to read, which I know

so many of us feel that way. My best tip or my best piece of advice is always to just carry a book

wherever you are, and so that way when you have a spare minute minute instead of scrolling through Instagram or scrolling through Twitter, you can reach

into your bag or in your car for a book. So that's what I kind of try to do. And as a result,

I wound up reading six books in February. So the first book I read was called Let's Just Say

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