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		<title>Things to Read &#8211; Edition 0005</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I feel like a bear coming up out of a hibernation and I am glad to be back out in the open. I had to check out and log off for the first of the year. For the job, we have offices in Minnesota just outside the cities and in all honesty &#8211; I just &#8230; <a href="https://headsubhead.com/2026/03/16/things-to-read-edition-0005/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Things to Read &#8211; Edition 0005</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kathleen Schmidt Interview with Books-A-Million CEO Terry Finley</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interview with the CEO of Birmingham/Homewood-based bookstore chain Books-A-Million, Terry Finley. Finley (Instagram) has been in bookselling for 50 years. Schmidt&#8217;s Publishing Confidential newsletter is book and publishing focused and always an interesting read. BAM is an interesting company due to its larger size and regional approach to operations. They have stores in &#8230; <a href="https://headsubhead.com/2025/12/17/kathleen-schmidt-interview-with-books-a-million-ceo-terry-finley/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Kathleen Schmidt Interview with Books-A-Million CEO Terry Finley</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Booking in Birmingham, AL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[December is always a fun time here in Birmingham, AL, especially if you like shopping for books. With all of the Maker Fairs and local bazaars going on, there is always something to do on the weekends.&#160;What&#8217;s been&#160;fun is seeing all&#160;of&#160;the different bookshops sharing not just books, but new ways of selling&#160;books. The Burdock Book Collective was set &#8230; <a href="https://headsubhead.com/2025/12/14/booking-in-birmingham-alabama/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Booking in Birmingham, AL</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Words of the Year 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Today (12/15/25), Merriam-Webster Dictionary declared &#8220;slop&#8221; as the word of the year. This seems equal parts fair and depressing. I hope humans do better in 2026. It is always interesting to see what the dictionary folks declare their &#8220;word of the year&#8221; to be. As fragmented as everything feels these days, it&#8217;s nice to &#8230; <a href="https://headsubhead.com/2025/12/05/word-of-the-year-2025/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Words of the Year 2025</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, and I was blown away. This book came out in 1993, and I know that makes me really late to the party, as I’ve seen this recommended quite a few times, but I’ve never stopped to read. Joe Crawford threw this title out as the November 2025 IndieWeb Book Club read, and I’m so glad I joined in (both because I enjoyed &#8230; <a href="https://headsubhead.com/2025/11/30/understanding-comics/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>NONFICTION NOVEMBER 2025 WEEK 5</title>
		<link>https://headsubhead.com/2025/11/27/nonficnov25-all-the-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week’s Nonfiction November 2025 festivities are&#160;being hosted over&#160;on Deb Nance’s site,&#160;ReaderBuzz, with the prompt being: “New To My TBR:&#160;&#160;It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR?” What a great month it’s been, and I feel exhausted! So many great new reads, conversations, and fun new blogs to &#8230; <a href="https://headsubhead.com/2025/11/27/nonficnov25-all-the-books/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">NONFICTION NOVEMBER 2025 WEEK 5</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>NONFICTION NOVEMBER 2025 WEEK 4</title>
		<link>https://headsubhead.com/2025/11/17/nonfiction-november-2025-week-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It's Week 4 of Nonfiction November and I am offering up a few words and photographs of letterpress and print artist Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s excellent book "Citizen Printer". #NonfictionNovember #bannedbooks #bookstodon #typography #letterpress]]></description>
		
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		<title>NONFICTION NOVEMBER 2025 WEEK 3</title>
		<link>https://headsubhead.com/2025/11/10/nonfiction-book-pairings-2025/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week’s Nonfiction November festivities are&#160;being hosted over on Liz’s site&#160;Adventures&#160;in&#160;reading,&#160;running, and&#160;working&#160;from&#160;home,&#160;with the prompt being: “Book Pairings:&#160;This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title.&#160;Maybe&#160;it’s a historical novel&#160;and&#160;the real history in a nonfiction version, or a memoir and a novel, or a fiction book you’ve read, and you would like recommendations for background &#8230; <a href="https://headsubhead.com/2025/11/10/nonfiction-book-pairings-2025/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">NONFICTION NOVEMBER 2025 WEEK 3</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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