I am gorging on Florida strawberries, but I am studying okra and dreaming peaches. Let me explain. SIBA — Southeast Independent Booksellers Alliance – recently announced its dozen “Okra Picks: Good Southern Books Fresh off the Vine” for the spring season as selected by its indie members. The fiction and nonfiction look appealing, but, yum, three books [...]
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Spring for okra picks
Posted in Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Southern Books, Thoughts on Books, Writing and Reading, tagged A Southerly Course, Caroline Cousins, Christy Jordan, cookbooks, High on the Hog, Martha Hall Foose, Okra Picks, peaches, recipes, rice, SIBA, Southern Plate on March 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Harvesting the Okra picks
Posted in Fiction, Reviews, Southern Books, Thoughts on Books, Uncategorized, Writing and Reading, tagged Beth Webb Hart, Crooked Letter Crooked Letter, Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You, Love Charleston, Okra Picks, SIBA, Tom Franklin on October 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
When Southern booksellers and publishers were in Daytona Beach last weekend for their annual trade show (SIBA), okra was on the agenda if not the menu. SIBA recently announced its dozen “Okra picks” for the fall season as voted on by independent booksellers, and I hear the chosen authors wore bright red sashes on the [...]
Okra Picks
Posted in Fiction, Nonfiction, Southern Books, tagged Beth Hoffman, Charlotte Jenkins, Okra Picks, Patricia Sprinkle, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Ron Rash, SIBA, Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, William Baldwin on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, you read that right. SIBA — the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance — has announced its pick of the winter/spring 2010 crop of books. Go to www. sibaweb.com to see the list. Congrats to all the authors involved. Several of these books were already on my radar — Connie May Fowler’s How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly, [...]


