BookGirl

My studio started out as an office, and it still serves that purpose as needed, but with the introduction of wireless communication into our...

I've been feeling a bit under the weather for the last couple of days. Maybe my last post did me in after all. Now, what never fails t...

I'm getting tired of writing about diminishing coverage of book reviews in metropolitan newspapers. Tired and depressed. The National ...

If you simply must have one more daily book review web read -- check out Critical Compendium: A Daily Dose of Book Reviews from Around the W...

A few more pix of my books and page details from the Book Arts workshop I participated in at Penland . You can read my earlier posts about...

John Blyberg is a librarian. If social, academic and technology issues surrounding libraries are your thing, John's site covers these,...

I finally managed to take photos of the books I made at Penland , and here are some of those images. I'd worked only briefly with acryli...

Peter Zane, the book editor of the Raleigh News and Observer for the past decade, tells us in his goodbye column that he's moving to a...

What does this post have to do with books? Not a thing, but then, BookGirl reserves the right to write about other things that catch her fa...

I started reading the major English newspapers during my tenure at my two former BLFs (Big Law Firms), both of whom had London offices (I ha...

I think more about journals now than I ever have. The reason, mostly, is a Creative Journaling class I took at BookWorks with textile art...

I miss my friend Susan, whom I was fortunate to have as a colleague for several years during my tenure at BLF (Big Law Firm). She's e...

My thanks to my friend, Mary, who posted a link to Personal DNA , an online personality test, on her blog . Having worked all through colle...

There's little I enjoy more than looking out the windows of our bright front room toward the mountains in the distance. Usually there...

I'm still processing (what a clinical word that is!) my two-week book arts workshop at Penland. I signed up for the course because I ...

The specifics of my Book Arts workshop aside, my two weeks at Pen land were like nothing I've experienced. The environment is designed...

By now you've figured out that I'm concerned over the elimination of book criticism at several major metropolitan newspapers. As us...

An elegant, brief video of women in art through the ages.

I've just returned from an intense (in a good way) two-week workshop in book arts at Penland . I'll be writing about it after a b...

Arts criticism has been a topic of conversation in the media recently. Richard Schickel, film critic for Time , wrote in the Los Angeles T...