Episode 408 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 19

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.

Our new website will be live on Friday, January 20! You can purchase books mentioned in today’s episode in the store or on our website starting January 20:

Heating & Cooling by Beth Ann Fennelly (unavailable to order)

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens (unavailable order)Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

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

Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Brainwaite

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalb (unavailable to order)Glitter & Glue by Kelly Corrigan (unavailable to order)My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

One More Thing by BJ Novak (unavailable to order)

Single, Carefree, and Mellow by Katherine Heiny (unavailable to order)

Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close (unavailable to order)My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily KingA Rover’s Story by Jasmine Warga

Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee

Maus by Art SpiegalmanDisplacement by Lucy Knisley (unavailable to order)Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto (unavailable to order)And Now I Spill the Family Secrets by Margaret Kimball (unavailable to order)Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall

Audition by Barbara WaltersI Miss You When I Blink and Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura PhilpottMemorial Drive by Natasha TrethawayBeautiful Country by Quian Julie WangKnow My Name by Chanel MillerThe New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker (unavailable to order)Becoming by Michelle ObamaFriends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew PerrySpare by Prince HarryMen We Reaped by Jesmyn WardFinding Me by Viola DavisChasing History by Charles Bernstein

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 Spare by Prince Harry.

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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, Cammy Tidwell, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Nicole Marsee, Wendi Jenkins, and Laurie Johnson.