President Jimmy Carter will be in the Birmingham area on December 1st. He’s making the rounds promoting his new book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.
I haven’t read it yet, but I’m told this latest release is about on par with Carter’s previous books. Sort of “same thoughts and rationale, just different backdop”. But I’ll have to [...]

They seem to be going after the “Pimp Your Ride” crowd.
Basically Penguin will start selling (end of November) real books by real authors… but with no covers. Apparently they hope people will buy the blanks and design their own covers and share with the world.
You can keep up with this project and gallery of uploaded [...]

Four days of BookTV has been great! The best segment I saw was Morse talking about the Dictionary. Fascinating! But I still have three shows to watch on the old dvr (including Isaac Stern!)… so that may change.
Just wanted to let you guys know about the fun Title Quiz the New York Times has posted [...]

Here’s a list of lists, with a few more lists.
Pretty cool. I’m not gonna reveal how much time I burned over the weekend clicking though all these links and scrolling through the sites.
A neat resource if you’re looking for a little-known title that has garnered some acclaim.

The Birmingham Public Library is hosting an Author’s Expo on December 1 and December 2. At last count, nearly 40 authors have plans to be there, selling and signing.
It seems a good chance to pick up a few unique Christmas presents.

In case you haven’t seen them yet, the National Book Awards announced the winners last week.

It’s no secret that we are big fans of LibraryThing here at {head}:sub/head. They consistently do good work and offer up cool add-ons like widgets (see sidebar) and search functions.
But the smart folks over at the Fine Books & Collecting blog have a neat article about other options. Some I’ve heard of, others just sound [...]

to check out this weekend’s BookTV schedule.

Nicholas Sparks is signing Dear John this Thursday (11/9) at Books-A-Million inside Brookwood Mall. Line numbers will be distributed beginning at 9 AM the day of the event.
You can call 205.870.0213 to get a copy. And if you sign-up for their email program they’ll send you a coupon [...]

I just found a book-centric forum buried in al.com. It’s still active with just a handful of posts each month. But it’s been running since 2002. Good to know that Birmingham has things like this out there. I just wish they weren’t so hard to find!