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My Continued Apologies  The comment glitch on this blog continues. My hosting provider has been helpful in trying to track down the cause. In the meantime, here’s a work-around that may may work: If you type a comment and hit the “post comment” button, you’ll get the message “submitting comment,” followed by nothing. But, if […]

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A bluish-green rectangle with drawings of leaves in various shades of yellow, orange, and brown. Superimposed is a smaller rectangle of the same bluish-green color. Text: Nonfiction November Week 5. 11/25/24 - 11/29/24. New to my TBR. Hosted by Readerbuzz

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My Apologies  After the migration to a new computer, I now find myself unable to reply to comments on my own blog. This pertains to all posts over the last couple of weeks.  Please know that I do appreciate your comments and read every one of them. I won’t be able to start trying to

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A bluish-green rectangle with drawings of leaves in various shades of yellow, orange, and brown. Superimposed is a smaller rectangle of the same bluish-green color. Text: Nonfiction November Week 4: 11/18/24 - 11/22/24. Mind Openers: hosted by She Seeks Nonfiction

2 Books That Opened My Eyes and My Mind

Week 4 (11/18-11/22) Mind Openers: One of the greatest things about reading nonfiction is the way it can open your eyes to the world around you–-no plane ticket required. What nonfiction book or books have impacted the way you see the world in a powerful way? Is there one book that made you rethink everything?

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ABA CEO Warns of New Challenges Post-Election In a letter to American Booksellers Association membership accompanying the publication of Wednesday’s Bookselling This Week newsletter, ABA CEO Allison Hill provided cautious words of encouragement following Tuesday’s election results. Acknowledging that the ABA does not know how its members voted in the election, Hill wrote that the

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A bluish-green rectangle with drawings of leaves in various shades of yellow, orange, and brown. Superimposed is a smaller rectangle of the same bluish-green color. Text: Nonfiction November Week 3: 11/11/24 - 11/15/24. Book Pairings hosted by Adventures in reading, running and working from home

3 Nonfiction/Fiction Book Pairings

Week 3 (11/11-11/15) Book Pairings: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. Maybe it’s a historical novel and the real history in a nonfiction version, or a memoir and a novel, or a fiction book you’ve read and you would like recommendations for background reading. Or (because I’m doing this) two

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Who’s Really Writing Celebrity Novels? “The writers and agents working behind the scenes tell us how it actually works.” “. . . what does it mean when a celebrity decides to write fiction?” Sophie Vershbow interviewed some “ writers and agents working behind the scenes on similar books [to] tell us how it actually works.”

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A bluish-green rectangle with drawings of leaves in various shades of yellow, orange, and brown. Superimposed is a smaller rectangle of the same bluish-green color. Text: Nonfiction November Week 2: 11/4/24 - 11/8/24. Choosing Nonfiction hosted by Volatile Rune

Nonfiction November Week 2: Choosing Nonfiction

Week 2 (11/4-11/8) Choosing Nonfiction: What are you looking for when you pick up a nonfiction book? Do you have a particular topic you’re attracted to? Do you have a particular writing style that works best? When you look at a nonfiction book, does the title or cover influence you? If so, share a title

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Bluish-green rectangle with leaves in shades of brown and gold. Text: Nonfiction November Week 1: 10/28/24 to 11/1/24. Your Year in Nonfiction hosted by Based on a True Story

Nonfiction November Week 1: My Year in Nonfiction

Because I have a personal penchant for alliteration, I’ve been reading nonfiction in November for the past few years. Only a couple of months ago did I discover that Nonfiction November is An Actual Thing, an established book-blogging meme: Announcing Nonfiction November I apologize to the hosts for not acknowledging them in past years, and

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Echoes of the Past in Crime Fiction Clinical psychologist and novelist Lucy Burdette understands exactly what I value most about crime fiction: we humans are always affected by our history. Our families shape our stories with their presence or absence, their quirks and patterns, their healthy traits and unhealthy, and sometimes their serious trauma. We

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To read or not to read: Does COVID-19 belong in our books? Logan Brown, an arts writer for The Michigan Daily, writes the “ability to escape into another world is an essential requirement for me to like a book — when I am reminded of my own reality that escape is often broken.” She then

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