It’s Week 3 of Nonfiction November, this week hosted by Liz at Adventures in Reading, Running and Working From Home. The task? Pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. This is my absolute favourite #NFN exercise.
What happens when a whale dies? Soundings by Doreen Cunningham and Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor.
It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading
You are unique and spectacular beings, sentinels of the sea, ecosystem engineers, harbingers of the climate change that will affect us all. But where the fuck are you? How could you let me down?
I feel like I’ve read quite a few books about whales* – not by default because I read lots of books about swimming, no… I am drawn to whale stories. I think it’s something to do with a sense of awe, like how can something so enormous also appear to be so gentle and languid?
In her sciencey-memoir, Soundings, Doreen Cunningham tracks the journey of the grey whales that migrate up the Pacific coast, from the warm water lagoons of Mexico’s Baja California Sur to the northernmost Alaskan town of Utqiagvik. Continue reading
Cathy at 746 Books is hosting the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge again this year. As Cathy explains, it’s the most relaxed reading challenge you’ll participate in (swap books out, change your target, do whatever). The challenge is straightforward – read the books between June 1st and September 1st. Continue reading
Cathy at 746 Books is hosting the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge again this year. As Cathy explains, it’s the most relaxed reading challenge you’ll participate in (swap books out, change your target, do whatever). The challenge is straightforward – read twenty books between June 1st and September 1st. Continue reading
It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading