Welcome to episode 73 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'm joined by my friends, Hunter, and Rebecca. Rebecca is the manager of the bookshelf,

and Hunter is one of our frequent customers and

podcast guests.

Today we are doing volume three of Love It or Loat It, and this episode we are discussing

Walt by Russell Wankerski.

Hello, friends.

Hello.

Welcome back to the podcast.

Thanks for having us.

We are without co-host Chris today, but we figured Lova Hello. Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for having us.

We are without co-hosts Chris today, but we figured love it or low that episodes are three of us anyway and three voices seems to be plenty.

So let's talk about Walt.

Rebecca, why don't you give us a brief rundown because this was a book that was an ARC a few months ago,

and you kind of read it and then wanted the rest of us to read it. So tell us about it. Well, the cover kind of gripped me right off because you've got like just this tile background, red wall, and then like this shopping cart. And it looks very simple, but also slightly ominous. So basically, it's about a middle-aged janitor.

He's not the type of guy that you would typically take notice of. And it looks very simple, but also slightly ominous. So basically, it's about a middle-aged janitor.

He's not the type of guy that you would typically take notice of.

And he works in a grocery store and collects people's grocery shopping lists.

Like he will empty out the trash, find their lists, and then try and figure out things about their lives.

And actually, he ends up kind of like stalking some of them. And actually he ends up kind of stalking some of them.

And so there's just kind of this premise that this person that you wouldn't really consider

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