Sometimes truth is well and truly stranger than fiction. Consider the exploits of Tim Dorsey, the New York Times bestselling author of a darkly funny collection of books set in Florida and featuring a history-loving, gloriously unrepentant serial kil…
- 7 days ago, Monday, February 13th, 2012 -

Here are the books I talked about today on Fox 6. There's fiction, nonfiction and fiction based on nonfiction. What's not to love? Pineapple Grenade (HarperCollins) by Tim Dorsey Dorsey’s newest darkly comic thriller, Pineapple Grenade, again featu…
- 13 days ago, Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 -

Birmingham Reads is a city-wide celebration of reading that is a collaborative project of Better Basics, the Junior League of Birmingham, The Literacy Council and the Children’s Literacy Guild. Additionally, this event is sponsored by Books-A-Milli…
- 20 days ago, Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 -

Here is a quick photo tour of the Vestavia Hills Friends of the Library used-book store. The Vestavia Hills Library has a new building and with it comes a new bookstore space. While this shop is about a third of the size of the original used-book s…
- 2 days ago, Saturday, February 18th, 2012 -

Mark your calendars for Saturday April 21! That’s the day for the 7th Annual Alabama Book Festival, held each year down in the super unique Old Alabama Town in Montgomery. Not all of the authors and booths have been confirmed, but you can keep up w…
- 7 days ago, Monday, February 13th, 2012 -

Abraham Lincoln did a lot of good for this country and he’s done a lot of good for the book industry. Currently, there is a monumental tower at Ford’s Theater made up of 15,000 books, each a unique title about Abraham Lincoln, driving this point…
- 10 days ago, Friday, February 10th, 2012 -