Happy #PAperbackBookDay! Here is just a tiny collection of the Swampy’s Florida paperback collection of Florida fiction! Please visit your local book store and pick up a paperback book of Florida today! Some of Swampy’s favorites are:
Copperfish Books, Punta Gorda
A. Parker’s Books and Book Bazaar, Sarasota,
The Book Mart, Perry
Farley’s Old & Rare Books, Inc., Pensacola
Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, Delray Beach
Inkwood Books, Tampa
The Muse Bookshop, DeLand
Lighthouse Books, St. Petersburg
…and there are so many more!Here is just a tiny collection of the Swampy’s Florida paperback collection of Florida fiction! Please visit your local book store and pick up a paperback book of Florida today! Some of Swampy’s favorites are:
Copperfish Books, Punta Gorda
A. Parker’s Books and Book Bazaar, Sarasota,
The Book Mart, Perry
Farley’s Old & Rare Books, Inc., Pensacola
Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, Delray Beach
Inkwood Books, Tampa
The Muse Bookshop, DeLand
Lighthouse Books, St. Petersburg
…and there are so many more!
Today is Rain Day and Trilby skips through a typical Florida refreshing and invigorating rain. A favorite thing to do is to take a bit of a hike through a park and then the rain falls to cool off. Visit your local Florida State Park and enjoy the outdoors and natural cooling!
Another part of the Swampy’s Florida Floridana collection. This is an advertising card for the long gone and well missed Six Gun Territory in Ocala.
Florida, Land Of Images by Nixon Smiley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Nixon Smiley has collected a series of informative essays of various historical markers in Florida history. Each is very well written and most provide a very good back story to the points in history. I wish he had more details not otherwise found in so many other volumes, but I’m not sure how unique this book was when this book was published in 1972.
There are certainly better books that cover the material here more thoroughly, but this is a nice volume to introduce people to our fantastic Florida history.
The illustrations by Bob Lamme are very good.
Bottom line: I recommend this book.