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Episode 391 || All About Audiobooks

Episode 391 || All About Audiobooks

FromFrom the Front Porch


Episode 391 || All About Audiobooks

FromFrom the Front Porch

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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Sep 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie’s husband Jordan joins her to talk all about audiobooks!
The books mentioned in this episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf’s Libro.fm playlist (or as physical books from The Bookshelf):
Annie's picks:
Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee
Falling by TJ Newman
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Going There by Katie Couric
How Not To Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
River of the Gods by Candice Millard
Taste by Stanley Tucci
Upgrade by Blake Crouch
The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
Jordan's Picks:
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
Behind her Eyes by Sara Pinborough
Defending Jacob by William Landay
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Furious Hours by Casey Cep
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Death is but a Dream by Christopher Kerr
The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
Mutual Listens:
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
Directed by James Burrows by James Burrows
Calypso by David Sedaris
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
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 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Jordan is reading Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri and The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe.
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.
Libro.FM:
Libro.fm lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore (like The Bookshelf). You can pick from more than 215,000 audiobooks, and you'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story -- one that supports community. All you need is a smart phone and the free Libro.fm app. You can shop The Bookshelf’s Libro.fm playlist here.
Released:
Sep 22, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Welcome to From the Front Porch, a weekly conversational podcast on books, small business, and life in the South, produced by The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in Thomasville, Georgia.