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Since 2006, I have been blogging about three things: books, publishing and Birmingham. As fast as things change these days, I think it’s a great time to be keeping a book blog, tracking new books, and reading about the quickly evolving publishing industry. I am fortunate enough to work in book publishing (nature & travel) and love the constant weaving of all the newness into all the oldness.
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I recently read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, and I was blown away. This book came out in 1993, and I know that makes me really late to the party, as I’ve seen this recommended quite a few times, but I’ve never stopped to read. Joe Crawford threw this title out as the November 2025 IndieWeb Book Club read,...
This week’s Nonfiction November 2025 festivities are being hosted over on Deb Nance’s site, ReaderBuzz, with the prompt being: “New To My TBR: It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR?” What a great month it’s been, and I feel exhausted! So many great new reads,...
It's Week 4 of Nonfiction November and I am offering up a few words and photographs of letterpress and print artist Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s excellent book "Citizen Printer". #NonfictionNovember #bannedbooks #bookstodon #typography #letterpress
This week’s Nonfiction November festivities are being hosted over on Liz’s site Adventures in reading, running, and working from home, with the prompt being: “Book Pairings: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. Maybe it’s a historical novel and the real history in a nonfiction version, or a...
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