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Episode 454 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 21
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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Dec 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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.
To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website (type “Episode 454” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app:
Flight by Lynn Steger Strong
Wintering by Katherine May
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell (unavailable to order)
Joy Enough by Sarah McColl (unavailable to order)
Beartown by Frederick Backman
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (unavailable to order)
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Backwater by Joan Bauer (unavailable to order)
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson
Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger
The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett
“The Night Before Christmas” by Clement C. Moore
“Santaland Diaries” by David Sedaris (featured in Holidays on Ice)
“A Christmas Story” by Walter Dean Myers (145th Street) (unavailable to order)
God Speaks Through Wombs by Drew Jackson
Miracle on 10th Street by Madeleine L’Engle (unavailable to order)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Why Christmas Trees Aren’t Perfect by Richard Schneider
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
New Girl in Little Cove by Dahmnait Monaghan
Faking Christmas by Kerry Winfrey
Holiday Romance by Catherine Walsh
Kissing Kosher by Jean Meltzer
Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan
Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan
Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon (unavailable to order)
Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews
84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley (unavailable to order)
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (unavailable to order)
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 Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.
If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. 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...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.
To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, visit our website (type “Episode 454” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app:
Flight by Lynn Steger Strong
Wintering by Katherine May
The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell (unavailable to order)
Joy Enough by Sarah McColl (unavailable to order)
Beartown by Frederick Backman
Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (unavailable to order)
Tinkers by Paul Harding
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Backwater by Joan Bauer (unavailable to order)
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson
Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger
The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett
“The Night Before Christmas” by Clement C. Moore
“Santaland Diaries” by David Sedaris (featured in Holidays on Ice)
“A Christmas Story” by Walter Dean Myers (145th Street) (unavailable to order)
God Speaks Through Wombs by Drew Jackson
Miracle on 10th Street by Madeleine L’Engle (unavailable to order)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Why Christmas Trees Aren’t Perfect by Richard Schneider
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
New Girl in Little Cove by Dahmnait Monaghan
Faking Christmas by Kerry Winfrey
Holiday Romance by Catherine Walsh
Kissing Kosher by Jean Meltzer
Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan
Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan
Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon (unavailable to order)
Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews
84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
Love & Saffron by Kim Fay
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley (unavailable to order)
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (unavailable to order)
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 Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros.
If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. 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...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O’Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.
Released:
Dec 7, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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