It's time for another round of bookish birthdays and interesting book news!
The 32nd winner of the Arthur C Clarke Science Fiction award is Anne Charnock for her novel Dreams Before the Start of Time.
Check out the next generation of Instant Pot Cookbooks.
The Man Booker Prize just celebrated its 50th anniversary and awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize to Michael Ondaatje for The English Patient.
Barnes and Noble's reads present 10 Books That Will Make You Smarter in Every Way.
Debbie Macomber, one of my favorite authors, shares her summer reading list.
The Conversation's Playing Detective with Canada's Female Literary Past.
Author Birthdays
July 22 - Emma Lazarus, whose poetry is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty:
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
July 23 - Mystery Writer Raymond Chandler and literary novelist John Nichols .
July 24 - French author Alexander Dumas and Danish Author Henrik Pontoppidan who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917.
July 25 - American novelist Robyn Carr and Bulgarian Elias Canetti who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.
July 26 - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 as well as English writer Aldous Huxley.
July 27 - Italian Poet Giosuè Carducci who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1906 as well as Anglo-French poet Hilaire Belloc.
July 28 - English writer Beatrix Potter and victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins
Our Brit Trip is taking us to Gloucestershire this week:
Gloucestershire is the picturesque home to the Cotswold towns and villages. The area is also the country residence of Princes Charles at Highgrove.
Rabbit trails: Badminton House (yes, like the sport) , Tewkesbury Abbey
Have fun following rabbit trails this week!
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It was also MY birthday on the 27th!
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