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.

The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:

The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

The Paris Bookseller by Kerrii Maher

Ulysses by James Joyce

My Reading Life by Anne Bogel

The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

The Night Ship by Jess Kidd

Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

Just Another Love Song by Kerry Winfrey

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams

Well-Matched by Jen DeLuca

The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland

Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne

This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

Sam by Allegra Goodman

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. 

This week, Annie is reading Sam by Allegra Goodman.

If you’re a local reader, Thomasville native and author Katie Joy Duke is coming to The Bookshelf on September 19 from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. for a book signing. Katie’s new book, Still Breathing: My Journey with Love, Loss, and Reinvention is a raw, vulnerable story about Katie’s healing journey after her first daughter, Poppy Annabelle, was stillborn at full-term. Join us on September 19th for an afternoon of hope and resilience.

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We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

Our Executive Producers are... Donna Hetchler, Angie Erickson, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, Laurie Johnson, and Kate Johnston Tucker.