This week Annie is back to answer listeners' literary questions and dilemmas in round nine of Literary Therapy.

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

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Z by Therese Anne Fowler

A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler

Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson

The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis

The Address by Fiona Davis

The Doll House by Fiona Davis

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson & Ronald Cotton

Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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 below.

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 Matrix by Lauren Groff.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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

In this week’s episode, Annie talks with Olivia and Lucy about the new releases you don’t want to miss this month

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

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Fault Lines by Emily Itami

Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney

A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti

Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen

Egg Marks the Spot by Amy Timberlake

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

Pony by RJ Palacio

Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray

Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo

Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by

Dawn Turner

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a

Broken System by Jarrett Adams

Mennonite Valley Girl: A Wayward Coming of Age by Carla Funk

The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar

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 below.

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 reading All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor. Olivia is reading Last Graduate by Naomi Novik. Lucy is reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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

In this week’s episode, Annie talks about the books she read in August.

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

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

Dear William by David Magee

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

Finding My Voice by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor Schaumann

Let’s Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder

Four Friends by William D. Cohan

The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

Finding Freedom by Erin French

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

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. 

Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D 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 When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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

This week Annie is talking with store manager Olivia about some favorite titles shared with her by kids in the local community, and we thought it’d be fun for you to hear directly from the kids themselves.

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

Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Coo by Kaela Noele

El Deafo by CeCe Bell

Okay Witch by Emma Steinkeller

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

Unsolved Case Files: Escape at 10,000 Feet by Tom Sullivan

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Middle School Bites series by Steven Banks

The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maude Hart Lovelace

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Unwanted series by Lisa McMann

Camp/Click/Act by Kayla Miller

Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

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

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. 

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 Let’s Not Do That Again by Grant Ginder. (Published April 2022)

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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

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This week Annie is back to answer listeners' literary conundrums in round eight of Literary Therapy.

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

Falling by TJ Newman

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly

Brood by Jackie Polzin

I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird by Sue Cerulean

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo

What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

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

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 When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough by Taylor S. Schumann.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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

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Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link:

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The Bookshelf’s store manager, Olivia and Lucy join Annie this week to share their August new release rundowns.

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

Palm Beach by Mary Adkins

When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow

Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger

Dead Wednesday by Jerry Spinelli

Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka

Mrs. March by Virginia Feito

Say It Out Loud by Allison Varnes

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 Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King. Olivia is reading We Are Family by Lebron James. Lucy is reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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

Libro.FM:

Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (Like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app.

Right now, if you sign up for a new membership, you will get 2 audiobooks for the price of one. All you have to do is enter FRONTPORCH at checkout or follow this link:

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In this week’s episode, Annie recaps her July reads.

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

Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein

Survive the Night by Riley Sager

New Girl in Little Cove by Damhnait Monoghan

You Have a Match by Emma Lord

Falling by T.J. Newman

Millennial Nuns by the Daughters of Saint Paul

My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

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 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 Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King.

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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

Listen in this week as Annie and guest, cousin and Bookshelf Community Manager, Ashley Sherlock discuss all things Ted Lasso.

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

Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman (Beartown by Fredrik Backman)

The From-Aways by CJ Hauser

Frankly in Love by David Yoon

New Girl in Little Cove by Damhnait Monaghan

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Guncle by Steven Rowley

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engel

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

A Place for Us by Fatima Fahreen Mirza

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebowitz

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 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 Falling by T.J. Newman. Ashley is reading The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller.

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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

This week Annie is joined by friend, Bookstagrammer (@shelfbyshelf) and frequent co-host, Hunter McLendon to talk all things Jane Austen!

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

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner

The Prayers of Jane Austen by Jane Austen

Karen Swallow Prior, “A Novel Approach to Virtue”:

https://www.ttf.org/portfolios/online-conversation-reading-jane-austen/

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 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 Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang. Hunter is reading Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead.

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie is joined by her mom, Susie to discuss books for sensitive readers.

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

What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins

The Sweet Taste of Muscadines by Pamela Terry

The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich 

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray 

Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty

The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney

When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey

Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein

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 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 Survive the Night by Riley Sager. Susie is reading When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash.

Thank you again to this week’s sponsor, Visit Thomasville. Whether you live close by or are passing through, I hope you'll visit beautiful Thomasville, Georgia: www.thomasvillega.com.

If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch.

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