Episode 578 || Literary Therapy, Vol. 27

This week on From the Front Porch, it’s a 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, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 578) or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app.

Anonymous Voicemail:

• Celestial Lights by Cecile Pin (backordered)

• Love by the Book by Jessica George

• Ordinary People by Diana Evans

• At the Pond by Margaret Drabble

Anonymous Voicemail:

• Joyful Anyway by Kate Bowler

• The Reservation by Rebecca Kauffman

• This is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman

• So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder

• Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen

• The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

• Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

Caroline

• Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

• Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

• The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevins

• The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe

• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Jeanette

• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

• Time of the Child by Niall Williams

• Diary of a Country Priest by George Bernanos

• Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

• The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon

• A Place at the Table by Susan Rebecca White

• Ordinary Time by Catherine Rentzenbrink

• Empire Falls by Richard Russo

• Tales of a Country Parish by Colin Heber-Percy

• Even After Everything by Stephanie Duncan Smith

• The Irrational Season by Madeline L'Engle and Graham Greene

Trudy

• The Mothers by Brit Bennett

• This Is Where I Leave You byJonathan Tropper

• Flight by Lynn Steger Strong

• Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

• Mercury by Amy Jo Burns

• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

• Like Family by Erin White 

• Family Trust by Kathy Wang

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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 listening to Judy Blume by Mark Oppenheimer.

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Our Executive Producers are...Ashley Ferrell, Beth, Cammy Tidwell, Gene Queens, Jammie Treadwell, Joseph Shorter IV, Kimberly, Linda Lee Drozt, Nicole Marsee, Stephanie Dean, and Wendi Jenkins.