There is LOTS of Book TV to watch this weekend. It starts Saturday and runs all the way through Tueday morning!
Here’s the schedule.
Happy New Year!

The last week of every year always sits funny with me. Not sure why. It just seems like an odd lull between all the holiday hype dying off and the fireworks of the New Year.
So I hope you had a peaceful holiday and were gifted some good reads. It’s cold and wet down in our [...]

An extra day of BookTV goodness!
I have the dvr set for…
Eric Burns talking about his book Infamous Scribblers,
Artist Donald Jackson talking about a brand-new hand-illuminated Bible,
and David Kamp talking about his book The United States of Arugula.
Merry Christmas!

Well that was relativley painless. Those folks over at Wordpress sure are smart. All went according to plan and I even installed one of those “math comment field” spam blocker deals.
Let me know if it gives you any trouble.
While all this was backing-up/updating I watched the New York Times Book Review tour that aired on [...]

so the site will be off and on all night tonight. The spammers apparently have my number. I haven’t been this ticked off in a long time.
I just deleted 290 comments, carpet bomb style. So if I trashed your comment, I’m sorry. I hope you’ll keep coming back to check us out.
Hopefully everything will go [...]

Here is another great idea for a blog! The Independent Bookstore Photo Gallery posts visitors’ pics of their favorite local independent bookstore haunts. They even post a little write up about each place. It’s sort of a super-flickr group or something. Should be fun to keep up with.
We’ll be contributing Reed’s Bookloft and The Alabama [...]

The kind soul over at Tech Ramblings from the Rare Book Trade turned me on to World Wide Words.org.
This is a fascintaing site! It’s chock-full of tidbits and nuggets about word history and development. Lots of fun facts to memorize, just in time for the holiday party season! Maybe my wife won’t be too embarassed [...]

Christopher Morley’s 1918 The Haunted Bookshop.
As always, my thoughts are cross-posted here and on LibraryThing.
This was an enjoyable book. It’s very “classic”, in that American Movie Classics Channel Jimmy Stewart kind of way. Everyone is soooo polite and proper. Everyone blushes and women drop their handkerchiefs.
The whole WWII-era spy plot is a bit flat. True, [...]

Some University of Alabama students are helping ship books to college-age students in Africa. Here’s a link to a press release about the cause and book-drop locations.

A local good soul has started a Birmingham, Alabama group over on LibraryThing. The potential is great. You should click over and check it out. I’ve already learned some local lore, just by clicking through to the B’ham based books list over on the BhamWiki.
The Wiki has lots of cool stuff. If you’re not careful [...]