Destination Books

05/07/2026

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

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 …

04/21/2026

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

(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…

04/15/2026

I am interrupting my Spring gardening...

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,…

03/31/2026

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

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…

03/20/2026

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

02/25/2026

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.

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…

02/13/2026

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 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 …

01/16/2026

Resources for starting the garden seasoning in January.

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…

01/06/2026

Elegiac and Silly.

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…

12/13/2025

More about my recent trip.

Reading New Orleans Last month I was in New Orleans. My literary experience of the city is limited but a couple books about The Crescent City stick in my mind. One of those books is Rebecca Snedeke…