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A Recent Book Award Wrap Up (and I’m Back!)
I’ve fallen off a bit on blogging over the last 6 months, but am making a commitment to myself to start again in 2024! I’m starting with a few BIG blog posts, since not blogging for over 6 months certainly means I have a lot to talk about! Today, I’m looking at recent book awards from the second half of 2023, including some books you likely have heard of, and quite a few that you may have not encountered yet! Next week, I have a look at my reading year in 2023 (and looking forward to March, we have my favorite event of the spring coming up, the Tournament of…
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What Makes a Great Field Guide? My Favorite Nature Books!
This past weekend, I was teaching a group of kids how to use field guides to identify and learn about the things you find in nature, and in developing this lesson, I had the chance to dig into some of my favorite nature guides and nature-ish books (and ended up ordering a few I wish I had!). If you have never thought much about this before, or don’t think you will be interested, don’t worry! Below there will be traditional guidebooks, but there are also chickens, some information about Sasquatch, and some poetry as well. Overall, the field guide-type books I love tend to fall into two categories. First, I…
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More Award Winning Books: Adaptations, Interesting Narrators and More.
Hello everyone, Today I wanted to share a few books that have come out in recent years and received awards. I am always surprised by the number of books that I have never heard of when I look at award lists, and while it does get a big overwhelming, it also sometimes pushes books I have wanted to read higher up my TBR. Below are some of the ones I am interested in – if you want to learn more about the prospective awards, or find some books you might want to read, you can check out my full database of Current Book Award Winners as well. A Memory Called…
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Recent(ish) Award Winners: New Awards and Weird Books
I recently updated the Current Book Award Winners page of my website, which I try to do every few months (it’s been 2 years now…), and it was fun to see what has been getting the spotlight. Some I had read, some I had heard of, but many were new to me, which was fun! The page linked above looks at your standard mainstream book awards, but it also tracks book awards for specific formats, or that give awards for regional authors, genre book or authors and protagonists who have a typically underrepresented background, and you might have fun exploring some prizes that you didn’t know about! Today, I have…
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Weekend Joys in Books and More: February 26th
Hello and happy weekend to you all! This week, I have some great audio listens and some interesting reads for you all. I’m sorry this is so late – I’ve been putting in some catch up work days on Fridays, and so my weekends have been starting a bit later! 1.) This podcast was absolutely brilliant 2.) Do you ever find yourself thinking that something in the 1990s was “just a few years ago?”. You are in good company. 3.) Ever been tempted to ring up your organic apples as a cheaper variety? Apparently, you are not alone. 4.) These words are really cool! Also, they come from a beautiful…
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