Today Annie is joined by her cousin and frequent Bookshelf collaborator, Ashley Sherlock. Every season, they sit down at the metaphorical kids’ table to chat about what they’re reading, watching, listening to, and buying.

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

• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

• ”Adrift” by Mark Nepo (This is a poem from this book)

• Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl

• Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen

• What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind by Jennifer Senior

• Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer

• J.Crew Factory jeans

• Bookshelf reusable grocery bags

• UpWest

• The Common Room

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 Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer and Ashley is reading Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead.

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