Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks: August 2022

Sunday, August 28, 2022

BW35: September Crime Spree - Police Procedurals

Happy Sunday! September is upon us and our newest crime spree category brought to us by Sandy and Amy is all about Police Procedurals.

We love to watch Police Procedurals which is a genre popular not only in mystery books but also TV (for example… Law and Order has continuously been on since 1990). The genre lends itself well to series, which means fans will have plenty of books to read.

Authors to explore:

Val McDermid – multiple great series

· Ann Cleeves—Vera Stanhope is her classic detective

· Tana French – Dublin Murder squad

· Karin Slaughter – Will Trent is her best-known series

· Ian Rankin – writes the long-running Inspector Rebus series

· Peter Lovesey – multiple series but Peter Diamond is one of his most famous

· Faye Kellerman – Sandy particularly recommends the Peter Decker series

Challenge: Read a Police Procedural mystery and consider it “research.”

Our A to Z and Back Again letter and word of the week are R and Resourcefulness

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Sunday, August 21, 2022

BW34: 14 Things

Fourteen, 14, XIV

Happy Sunday! This week I'm thinking about the number fourteen. Merriam Webster defines it as 'a number that is one more than thirteen'. That's it, I kid you not. Other dictionaries (real ones) state it is a cardinal number, ten plus four; equal to seven times two, or six less than twenty; a symbol 14 or XIV; a set of persons or things. A series of 14 books is called a tetradecology.

Pressbooks: In the 14th century, Chaucer became the first writer to use English in his works

History Extra: Cosmopolitan Chaucer: Marion Turner on the 14th-century poet’s inventive, international life

Buzzfeed: Hannah Loewenthal's 14 Best Books in 2022

Momjunction: 17 Best Books For 13 And 14-Year-Olds To Read In 2022

GMA: August books to squeeze in before summer ends: 14 to read

NPR: Here are the 14 books that NPR staff and critics are loving the most so far this year

Goodreads: Books with fourteen in the title

Read a book with 14 or more books in series such as Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, J.D. Robb's In Death, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Louise Penny's Armand Gamache, Jan Karon's Mitford, Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, or Lee Childs Jack Reacher.

Have fun following rabbit trails.

Our A to Z and Back Again letter and word of the week are S and Series.

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Sunday, August 14, 2022

BW33: Mary Jo Salter

Happy Sunday! This week we celebrate the birthday of American poet, Mary Jo Salter, who is co editor of the Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor at John Hopkins University

Discovery

Mary Jo Salter

6:48 a.m., and leaden
little jokes about what heroes
we are for getting up at this hour.
Quiet. The surf and sandpipers running.
T minus ten and counting, the sun
mounting over Canaveral
a swollen coral, a color
bright as camera lights. We’re blind-
sided by a flash:

shot from the unseen
launching pad, and so from nowhere,

a flame-tipped arrow—no, an airborne

pen on fire, its ink a plume

of smoke which, even while zooming

upward, stays as oddly solid

as the braided tail of a tornado,

and lingers there as lightning would

if it could steal its own thunder.

—Which, when it rumbles in, leaves

under or within it a million

firecrackers going off, a thrill

of distant pops and rips in delayed

reaction, hitting the beach in fading

waves as the last glint of shuttle

receives our hands’ eye-shade salute:

the giant point of all the fuss soon

smaller than a star.

Only now does a steady, low

sputter above us, a lawn mower

cutting a corner of the sky,

grow audible. Look, it’s a biplane!—

some pilot’s long-planned, funny tribute

to wonder’s always-dated orbit

and the itch of afterthought. I swat

my ankle, bitten by a sand gnat:
what the locals call no-see-’ums.

Happy Birthday to Mary Jo Salter!

Our A to Z and Back again letter and word of the week are T and Tangible.

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Sunday, August 7, 2022

BW32: 52 Books Bingo - Curious Cats and Courageous Canines

Happy Sunday! From The Dogfather series by Roxanne St. Claire to the running joke of we don't know what the heck Gracie is in the Armand Gamache Series by Louise Penny to Erin Hunter's Warrior Cats to Lillian Jackson Braun's Cat Who series, the characters with paws make the story and are a joy to read. Join me for this week's 52 Books Bingo category reading about Curious Cats and Courageous Canines.

Slates: The Case of the Feline Flatfoot

Write Academy's: Cats in Books: Our Top Fictional Felines

Crime Reads: Cats and Cozy mysteries, the purr-fect combination and Reader's Guide to K-9 Mysteries

Goodreads: Pawsitively Love-Romances With Special Pets Or Animals and Hot Dog! (A Dachshund-lover's list)

And last but not least is Bookriot's 100 Must Read Books with Cats in Them

Our A to Z and Back Again Letter and Word of the week are U and Unique.

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