Listen in this week as Annie and guest, cousin and Bookshelf Community Manager, Ashley Sherlock chat about their Spring reading, listening, watching and buying lists.

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

Reading:

Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny
Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Reading While Black by Esau McCaulley
You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Cole
145th Street by Walter Dean Myers
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Upworthy on Instagram
Poetry Is Not A Luxury on Instagram
The Washington Post subscription
The Marshall Project: Article about author Sara Gruen

Watching:

Ted Lasso on Apple TV+
Love Island on Hulu
The Limit (workout program) by Beth Nicely

Sharon McMahon of Sharon Says So - Government for Grownups classes
Yes Day on Netflix

Listening:

Taylor Swift: From the Vault
Drivers License by Olivia Rodrigo
Still Processing podcast
Caul Baby by Morgan Jenkins
Breezy Instrumental playlist by Kendra Joyner Adachi
Hot Girl Walk playlist
The First Spring playlist

Buying:

Ally B
The Bookshelf
Material Kitchen
Ashley has been buying grande lemonades with strawberries and two pumps of raspberry syrup on top from Starbucks

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 Kisses and Croissants by by Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau and Ashley is reading Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney.

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

The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor