This week on From the Front Porch, it’s time for another Literary Therapy session! Our literary Frasier Crane, Annie, is back to answer more of your reading questions and dilemmas. If you have a question you would like Annie to answer in a future episode, you can leave us a voicemail here.

Get your copies of the books mentioned in this episode from The Bookshelf:

Little Women Book Club

Flight by Lynn Steger Strong

Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak (currently unavailable to order)

The Santa Suit by Mary Kay Andrews

Voracious! by Cara Nicoletti (currently unavailable to order)

My First Popsicle edited by Zosia Mamet

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Winter Solstice by Rosmunde Pilcher

An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott (currently unavailable to order)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (currently unavailable to order)

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

Wintering by Katherine May

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley

Little Women (painted edition) by Louisa May Alcott

Persuasion (painted edition) by Jane Austen

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

All These Wonders and Occasional Magic by The Moth

Liturgies for Hope by Elizabeth Moore & Audrey Elledge

A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Miracle on 10th Street by Madeleine L’Engle (currently unavailable to order)

A Treasury of Family Christmas Poems by Union Square Kids

The Boy, The Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses (releases 1/17/23)

From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. 

A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here.

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. 

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