I think I'm going to put the traditional second S back in my name and start pronounced

in J, like a Y, like it's supposed to be in Danish, and I will be Jensen.

I think that would just look really arrogant.

I don't think so.

To people that know you?

Well, I wouldn't do it to people who know me.

Make people call me a different name? Yeah, that would look really weird if you were like, Annie, call me Jensen. Okay, but I'm not doing that. I'm talking about, like, new people that I've never met. Well, like, I knew a person who their name was Anne. But then when they were 50, mid-50s, all of a sudden they refused to be called Anne and instead wanted to be called Victoria.

That doesn't even make sense.

No, so I refuse to call her Anne.

I mean, Victoria, I called her Anne.

I know a person like that who changed her name to something like Nepalese or something and I refuse I mean I don't mean to be

judging and I roly about it but I'm not going to call you Christensen and I'm not asking you to

however when I move to Denmark welcome to episode 89 of From the Front Porch a collection of

conversations on books small business and life in the South my name is Chris Jensen and I just

thought this morning that I can abbreviate this podcast to FTFP I'm Annie Jones the owner

of the bookshelf an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. It is time for September's reading recap. I know you've all been waiting. I think people do wait for them. I was not joking. I was. I don't want to sound arrogant when I say that. Because... Does that the theme of our show today? Arrogance.

I'm very sensitive about that.

You are. I'm sorry. Okay, but yeah, I think people really do look forward to these.

I think so too.

Which means this month is going to be interesting.

So September was personally a very stressful month for me.

Lots of work and bookstore stress that is still trickling into October.

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