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From the Front Porch

Episode 78 || Jo Dee Messina, Audiobooks, and Jane Austen with a Southern Accent

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Love books, music, and the South? Then we've got the episode for you. Annie and Chris met with the guys of Audible Discernment, a music podcast out of nearby Albany, Ga., and they chat all things literary and musical (including a nostalgia for country music and why Pride and Prejudice would be better set in the South).  Books mentioned:  + Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison  + A Boy from Georgia by Hamilton Jordan + The Dark Tower series by Stephen King + Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen + The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers + Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace + The Whale by Mark Beauregard + The Last Days of Video by Jeremy Hawkins

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Episode 78 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.

0:08.7

My name is Chris Jensen, I sell books, and am a student.

0:12.6

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

0:17.7

We are recording a very quick intro in Annie's office for a very

0:22.7

special episode that we recorded a couple weeks ago. Yeah, we got to meet with Audible

0:27.3

discernment, a podcast based in Albany, Georgia. We all met at my house a couple of Fridays

0:32.9

ago and recorded a really fun conversation about music and books.

0:41.6

And I was super anxious about it, but then realized that was dumb because they were delightful.

0:42.7

Because they were delightful.

0:44.1

So just a couple of notes.

0:48.5

It is a different format than our normal podcast.

0:50.0

It's about twice the length.

0:50.8

It's an hour long.

0:57.0

And it's way, I mean, we say we're a conversation, but this is really a conversation. It's actually just a conversation of five people talking.

1:01.8

And we do, we try to do our normal questions and stuff and they try to do their normal stuff.

1:06.9

But this is a very special episode, a crossover, if you will.

1:11.4

It's going to be the same audio posted on their podcast, so go check them out.

1:15.4

They're called audible discernment, excuse me.

1:18.4

We'll put a link in the show notes.

1:19.9

And we will.

1:20.7

Hope you enjoy listening. We should try that's

1:31.6

Well, we often do that too, and then just

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