BW48: Bookish notes and birthdays

As November winds down, it is time for another round of Bookish Notes and Birthdays!



A Wave of New Fiction from Nigeria: As Young Writers Experiment with Genre

Dawn Watch Explores The Life And Legacy Of Joseph Conrad

2017 Costa Book Awards Shortlist Announced

SBTB's Covers and Cocktails: Southern Hospitality

YA Books That Feature Sisters

Best Multicultural and Diverse Books about or featuring a variety of cultures.

Artist Andrew DeGraff on Cinemaps: an Atlas of 35 Great Movies

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2017  - ideas for movies to books reading.



Author Birthdays this week:  

11/26 -  William Cowper and Eugene Ionesco 

11/27 -  James Agee and Gail Sheehy

11/28 -  John Bunyan and William Blake

11/29 -  C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Louisa May Alcott

11/30 -  Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain 

12/01 -  Rex Stout and Charles Finney

12/02 -  Elizabeth Berg and Ann Patchett



“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”   ― Mark Twain

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BW47: Happy Thanksgiving

Courtesy of Mommy's Playbook

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours.   I  have much to be grateful for and remember this week as our family gathers together this week to celebrate  birthdays, anniversaries and those who have gone on to eternal rest.  I am also thankful for each and every one of you who has joined our 52 Book a Week family of readers.  And yes, I'm thankful for books.  

And since we all have a cornucopia of books, read a book from your shelves or perhaps from the library this week: 

• Has Thanksgiving in the title or any variation of thanks
• about gratitude
• has Thursday or the number 23 in the title 
• Any of the symbols or synonyms of Thanksgiving
• with Thanksgiving as the theme
• with a turkey on the cover
• a book with food and/or beverage on the cover
• with a cornucopia on the cover 
• any of the colors of the fall harvest
• a book about food or drink
• a book that takes place in England or New England States - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island

Have fun following rabbit trails. What are you grateful for this week?

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BW46: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson - Courtesy of Wikipedia

In honor of Robert Louis Stevenson who was born November 13, 1850.

Swallows Travel To and Fro

Swallows travel to and fro,

And the great winds come and go,

And the steady breezes blow,

Bearing perfume, bearing love.

Breezes hasten, swallows fly,

Towered clouds forever ply,

And at noonday, you and I

See the same sunshine above.

Dew and rain fall everywhere,

Harvests ripen, flowers are fair,

And the whole round earth is bare

To the moonshine and the sun;

And the live air, fanned with wings,

Bright with breeze and sunshine, brings

Into contact distant things,

And makes all the countries one.

Let us wander where we will,

Something kindred greets us still;

Something seen on vale or hill

Falls familiar on the heart;

So, at scent or sound or sight,

Severed souls by day and night

Tremble with the same delight -

Tremble, half the world apart.  

Monday is Robert Louis Stevenson day in Edinburgh where they are celebrating his works and life and following in his footsteps as well as having readings of his stories.  Check out the RLS website where you will find his books, essays, and poetry online as well as a travel page dedicated to his journeys.  

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BW45: 52 Books Bingo Mini Challenge - Finance

It's time for another mini challenge and an opportunity to complete the finance category for 52 Books Bingo.  There are a number of directions to follow.  

Read books about

• Economics
• Banking, 
• Investment
• Accounting, 
• Marketing
• Money management, 
• Gambling, 
• Biographies, 

or 

• Spell out finance
• Find a book with finance or synonyms related to finance in the title.
• Make an anagram from the word finance and read a book with the word in the title.
• Read a book with the money symbol $ and/or a picture of paper money or coins on the cover. 
• Read about the history of finance
• Read a fictional thriller or mystery

And if you are feeling really ambitious, check out Goodreads  Crazy Challenge Connection group's annual challenge -  Dollars and Sense and complete the challenge tasks.  

Have fun following rabbit trails! 

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