Birmingham’s southside is home to a new used bookstore. Greencup Books is holding its official “grand opening” this Friday night. The doors open at 2pm with a reading/signing by Tony Crunk and artist Peter Wilm. They will be signing their joint publishing project Stories from Real Life.
Greencup Books sells mainly used books culled from collections and sales all over the South East. But there are a few new titles on hand too. Some from their own small-press imprint Absnth Inc. So that’s pretty cool too.
This weekend is the Vestavia Hills Library’s Super Duper Book Sale. It goes all the way till Tuesday, but they started carting out books by the box-full tonight.
Happy hunting! If you’re in town it’s well worth the trip (even on a lunch break next week)!
Find your elbow pads… the annual second-floor gobbling Super Book Sale at the Vestavia Hills library kicks-off Friday, February 1st at 5pm and continues through Tuesday, February 5th.
No doubt the crowds will be there early, but it’s always fun to go on the last day when they say something like “give me $2 and go fill this grocery sack” or something like that. I think proceeds benefit the new library planned to replace the one on Highway 31.
We have plugged the Birmingham’s 2008 Big Read Project Mockingbird a few times already. Now organziers are flexing the ir Web 2.0 muscles and asking for help from the immensley productive Magic City Flickr Group. Basically, the call went out for photos of events, people or anything that related to project Mockingbird or the book To Kill a Mockingbird.
So if you have any pics sitting around, just upload them to any Flickr account and tag them “projectmockingbird”, so the libraries can parse them to their sites via widgets.
