286 || August Reading Recap

Is August really over? It’s hard to believe it’s that time again, but here we are! This week, Annie recaps her reads during the month of August.

All of the books mentioned on today’s podcast can be purchased online at The Bookshelf:

• Stand All the Way Up by Sophie Hudson

• Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey

• Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel

• Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

• The Resisters by Gish Jen

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. 

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 Here She Is by Hilary Levey Friedman.

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