Episode 83 || Books in Houses

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

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

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

"A room without books is a body without a soul," said Cicero, and so we believe. This episode, Annie and Chris talk about the roles books play in homes and home decor: why we keep books and what they say about us. + This episode was inspired by Robbie Hopkins from Audible Discernment; you can check out our full episode with Robbie and the guys here. + Books by the foot your thing? You can buy them from another indie bookstore, Strand Books, here. + Mrs. Kendall's Unread Library, here.

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0:00.0	It's all going to be great.
0:01.3	Sure.
0:01.3	All right. So what are we talking about? We're talking about what we do with our books. Right. Just how we display them. How we display them. What you keep and what you don't. You want to know why I wanted to talk about this? Because Audible Discernment Guy brought it up. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So Robbie from Audible Discernment. Mm- discernment are we recording for real now no okay
0:25.1	no we are talking we're just talking yeah we both have our hands folded and we're just acting like
0:30.0	this is really professional so I didn't know if I needed to tell like the actual story no No, you don't.
0:37.8	Okay.
0:38.1	Yeah, no.
0:39.3	I will when we're really doing it.
0:41.2	Yes, when I'm going to start recording, we can do that.
0:44.3	Okay.
0:45.2	So we're going to talk about, well, books, we keep how we display them, why we display them,
0:50.6	and maybe how we arrange them on bookshelts.
0:53.1	Yeah.
0:53.8	Cool. Cool.
0:55.0	Okay.
0:56.0	Welcome to episode 83 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small
1:01.7	business, and life in the South.
1:03.5	I'm Chris Jensen, a grad student and bookseller at the bookshelf.
1:07.0	And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful
1:10.7	downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
1:12.6	Today we are talking about what we do with our books other than read them.
1:17.7	That's right, where we put them, why we keep them.
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