Episode 313 || March Madness 2021
Annie is joined this week by her husband and March Madness super fan, Jordan Jones to discuss their own bookish brackets.
The books mentioned in this week’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf:
The Harpy by Megan Hunter
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Wintering by Katherine May
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
All Things Reconsidered by Knox McCoy
The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
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 The Turnout by Megan Abbott and Jordan is reading Chapter 61 of Florida statutes, which has to do with timesharing and child support and chapter 70, which is the Bert J. Harris act.
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