This was a pretty cool non-fiction book to read! Published in 1994, John Berendt writes a true story about a murder mystery in Savannah, Georgia. I have always loved Savannah, so this book was going to be enjoyable to me anyway based on the setting. The iconic book cover is a statue of a young girl holding a shallow bowl in each hand, in theory to put bird seed in each bowl. The statue is called "Bird Girl" and stood in the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah. Due to popularity

I didn't have to read The Crucible in high school like so many, and in my small southern town it seemed most adults had strong opinions on this book anyway. The Crucible is a play written in 1953 by Arthur Miller. It recounts the events of The Salem Witch Trials in the 1690s. It is partially fictional, but yeah, they really did kill people becasue they thought they were witches. I was a little obsessed with the history of The Salem Witch Trials during this time. I had dove in

After I made my stamp for Piranesi, I had a thought in the back of my mind when reading new books, "what could be the book stamp for this one?" I thought about this as I started reading a book by Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart. Crying in H Mart was very different from Piransei. Piranesi was a fictional, lighter fantasy. A made up story and an imaginary setting. Crying in H Mart was a sobering and honest memoir by a Korean-American woman detailing her complicated relationsh

The first book stamp I made was for the book Piransei by Susanna Clarke. The setting of the book and the imagery of the world the author created really overtook me. This is a sort of "soft fantasty" book. The main setting is an other wordly house with infinite hallways and rooms. The house is adorned with marble sculptures and contains an ocean that can rise and lower at different times of the day, I have a certain affinity for sculptures. Mostly artistic ones you would find

“Just because you give something a catchy name doesn’t mean your audience knows what you are talking about. “ -Me speaking to myself after multiple people ask what the heck a “Book Stamp” is. TLDR: A book stamp is a stamp I make based off of a book I have read. It is one image to capture a main aspect of the book. They are a little too simplistic to be alternate cover art, but same idea there.  Example: The book stamp for “The Hobbit” is the hobbit hole where Bilbo Baggins l