Episode 390 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 17

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. If you liked what you heard in 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 and follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. 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.