316 || The Kids‘ Table: Spring

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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