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by Syl Schulze Busy Mind Bindery is a blog dedicated to providing instructional tutorials on book-binding while inviting readers to think about themselves and the world around them. Here it … Continue Reading Coptic Binding: Finally
By Robert Drinkwater When I first heard of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, it was described as ‘the next Harry Potter series’, and I can see why. It … Continue Reading Friday Book Review: Children of Blood and Bone
by Syl Schulze Busy Mind Bindery is a blog dedicated to providing instructional tutorials on book-binding while inviting readers to think about themselves and the world around them. The thinking … Continue Reading Perfect Binding: Fixing My Old SHINee Album
By Robert Drinkwater For as long as I can remember, I have always been a fan of the super hero genre. I’ve seen almost every Marvel movie. When I first heard … Continue Reading Friday Book Review: Vicious
by Syl Schulze Busy Mind Bindery is a blog dedicated to providing instructional tutorials on book-binding while inviting readers to think about themselves and the world around them. It is … Continue Reading Making Your Own Book Cloth
by Syl Schulze Busy Mind Bindery is a blog dedicated to providing instructional tutorials on book-binding while inviting readers to think about themselves and the world around them. I am … Continue Reading Treasure Bindings: What Books Should We Cherish?
By Robert Drinkwater Vengeful witches, curses, and dark pasts, this is what one can expect when reading The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw. I first heard about this book when watching the … Continue Reading Friday Book Review: The Wicked Deep
by Richard P. Mayer The wind blew open the door and Ozzie materialized. He slid in sideways, a faded reflection un-detected. A swarm of workaholics were struggling to decompress, swathed … Continue Reading It Was Early Evening
by Syl Schulze Busy Mind Bindery is a blog dedicated to providing instructional tutorials on book-binding while inviting readers to think about themselves and the world around them. … Continue Reading Book History: Medieval Scriptoria
For this weeks book review, I read something a little different. This book was a book of short stories called The language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo. The book consists … Continue Reading Friday Book Review: The Language of Thorns
by Syl Schulze Busy Mind Bindery is a blog dedicated to providing instructional tutorials on book-binding while inviting readers to think about themselves and the world around them. Welcome to … Continue Reading Hard Cover Books Pt. 2: Making and Attaching the Cover
As a child, The Wizard of Oz was one of my favorite movies. I loved all of the magic and wonder in the world of Oz. When I saw Wicked by Gregory Maguire at … Continue Reading Friday Book Review: Wicked
by Syl Schulze Busy Mind Bindery is a blog dedicated to providing instructional tutorials on book-binding while inviting readers to think about themselves and the world around them. Since we’ve … Continue Reading Hard-Cover Books Pt. 1: Making the Book Block
By Robert Drinkwater For this week, I will be reviewing Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz. Just like More Happy Than Not I found out about this … Continue Reading Friday Book Review: Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe
by Syl Schulze Busy Mind Bindery is a blog dedicated to providing instructional tutorials on book-binding while inviting readers to think about themselves and the world around them. A current … Continue Reading Thinking About Zines: Why Books are Precious to Us
By Robert Drinkwater Never choose a book by its cover is a common phrase, admittedly, I did exactly that when I picked out Caraval by Stephanie Garber. I thought that the cover … Continue Reading Friday Book Review: Caraval