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It’s Tournament of Books Time: Enjoy March Madness With Books (and cute pets)!
Hello everyone, This Saturday, I have a fun event to share with you. It’s one I follow almost every year, and it is called the Tournament of Books! This fun competition highlights 16 books that came out in the previous year, and pits them against each-other in a March Madness style bracket. The books are often award winners, but often they include books that have been overlooked or seemed to “genre” to get major attention, so it is a fun mix. Most “face-offs” are a decision made by one reviewer who reads both books and decides which one they connect with most, so the decisions are specific and interesting. What…
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Bookish March Madness
If you are anything like me, the level of mania that surrounds college basketball in March is bemusing. I don’t really understand March Madness, but I do appreciate the fun bookish events that it brings with it! There are multiple more local March Madness events hosted by libraries throughout the country, but my favorite one is below. The Rooster: Tournament of Books Every year, The Rooster hosts a super fun tournament of books, in which some of the most popular books of the past year are pitted against each-other and judged by authors, writers, and editors throughout the book industry. The criteria for judging is pretty much up to individual…
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