January 16, 2025

Episode 512 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 23

1 hour 2 minutes

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s a 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, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search “Episode 512”) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app:

Play for Me by Libby Hubscher

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

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

The Life Council by Laura Tremaine

Begin Again by Helly Acton

Limelight by Amy Poeppel

Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel

The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman

If We’re Being Honest by Cat Shook

Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal

Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather Lende

Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

Live from New York by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales

A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost

I’ll BeThere for You by Kelsey Miller

The Office by Andy Greene

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (unavailable to order)

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue

Leaving by Roxana Robinson

It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway by Elizabeth Passarella (unavailable to order)

Congratulations! The Best Is Over by R. Eric Thomas

I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet by Shauna Niequist

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb

From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop

Taste by Stanley Tucci

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, Tiktok, and Facebook, 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 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

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

Our Executive Producers are...Jennifer Bannerton, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Susan Hulings, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, and Amanda Whigham.

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