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.

To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website (type “Episode 434” into the search bar to easily find the books mentioned in this episode):

Monsters by Claire Dederer

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez

Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon (unavailable to purchase)

Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith (audiobook) (paperback)

Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin (audiobook) (hardcover)

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek by Thea Glassman (audiobook) (hardcover)

The Celebrants by Steven Rowley (audiobook) (hardcover)

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center (audiobook) (paperback)

Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum (audiobook) (hardcover)

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter (audiobook) (paperback)

Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes (audiobook) (hardcover)

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai (audiobook) (hardcover)

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 

Dear Regina by Flannery O'Connor

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Memorial Drive by Natasha Tretheway

Life and Other Love Songs by Anissa Gray

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Houston

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bloomability by Sharon Creech (unavailable to purchase)

The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Jaws by Peter Benchley

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 Directions to Myself by Heidi Julavits.

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

Our Executive Producers are...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.

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