Destination Books

London Book Shopping Part 1

As part of my milestone birthday celebration, my long-time book loving partner Denise planned our 10-day trip to London, which included museums, elegant afternoon teas, walking tours, rides on the double-decker buses and of course bookstores, some of which have been in business for centuries. This is an especially challenging endeavor because one must glean through an astounding selection of books and then pick something you can haul back in your luggage....

London Book Shopping Part 1 As part of my milestone birthday celebration, my long-time book loving partner Denise planned our 10-day trip to London, which included museums, elegant afternoon teas, walking tours, rides on the …

Interesting and fun to read. Klosterman says "I love football, but I don't want to take it to the prom."

Who Is This Book For? One of the stranger books as a reader and as a bookseller has been Chuck Klosternman’s book Football. In short, it’s not an X’s and O’s book or a paean to the gridiron or a …

Before Destination: Books there was a blog called Down & Outbound based on my experiences as a Atlanta public transit commuter.

Sixteen Metric Tons: A Climate Parody (This posting originally appeared on the now defunct Down & Outbound blog on February 6, 2020) This parody was inspired by the fact that a person living in the United States puts 16 million met…

I am interrupting my Spring gardening...

Repurposing When my booth tables aren’t working at Destination Books’ popups they are being used as potting tables to transfer seedlings into pots. Doing this they can get kind of grimy and sticky,…

Getting ready for this weekend's two-day popup at the Wylde Center.

Between the Popups Between the Popups April looks like a busy month ahead. Between rinsing off pollen of my car every morning and afternoon and transferring seedlings into pots and plots, there is the preparation for…

Some optimistic offerings for the Freedom Farmers Market at the Carter Center on Saturday morning, March 21st.

Back for my 5th year of selling gardening, sustainability, and nature books. Includes books that are a degree of separation from these topics as well.

Five Books on Seeds Adjacent the Marché d’Aligre market near the Bastille monument in Paris is a shop that specializes in the sales of heirloom seeds. But there are easier ways to find the right seeds. 5 Books o…

We have added some landscaping books to our booth at the Journeyman in downtown Decatur. Some good ideas for the upcoming year. https://bit.ly/perma_landscape

Landscape Planning Books Landscape Planning Books At the Journeyman a bike and coffee shop in downtown Decatur (with a hangout vibe), Destination Books maintains a subset of our inventory (~50 books). Currently on display …

Resources for starting the garden seasoning in January.

Early Start on Gardening Even though it is just mid-January, I am ready to get an early start on gardening by planting herb and flower seeds in “portable plastic jug greenhouses ” that I can set out on my patio…

Elegiac and Silly.

Miss Print In the predawn morning, the last print copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution arrived on my doorstep. Because I have a Ring doorbell, I even got a buzz on my phone which woke me up–unexpect…