This year the celebrations were postponed from August until now. Theme: Curious creatures, wild minds.
The library has some curious trivia questions to be answered, as well as some displays of good reads. This year’s award winners from the Children’s Book Council (picture books, chapter books and young adult) include Bruce Pascoe for Young dark emu and Indigenous illustrator Jasmine Seymour for Baby business.
https://cbca.org.au/winners-2020
https://www.magabala.com/blogs/news/cbca-win-2020
What are the benefits of reading?
Benefits include increased empathy, stress reduction, prevention of cognitive decline….
https://www.healthline.com/health/benefits-of-reading-books
Better Reading
Reading suggestions and Weekly Top 10.
Includes All our shimmering skies – Trent Dalton; The survivors – Jane Harper; Honeybee – Craig Silvey; Think like a monk – Jay Shetty.
http://www.betterreading.com.au/
2020 Better Reading Top 100
Includes The tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris; Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine – Gail Honeyman; Scrublands – Chris Hammer; Where the crawdads sing – Delia Owens.
https://www.betterreading.com.au/news/exciting-announcement-the-better-reading-top-100/
More good reading suggestions: http://www.betterreading.com.au/book_list/
Goodreads Best Books of 2019
Annual list voted for by readers. Categories include fiction, mystery and thriller, fantasy, science fiction, horror, memoir, non fiction, graphic novels, young adult. Winners include: The testaments – Margaret Atwood; The silent patient – Alex Michaelides; Ninth house – Leigh Bardugo; Recursion – Blake Crouch. 2020 list due in December.
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2019
Magabala Books
Excellent resources from this Broome-based company, specialising in books by Indigenous authors. 15 new titles are published annually – picture books, memoir, fiction (junior, YA and adult), non-fiction, graphic novels, social history and poetry. Includes:
Living on stolen land – Ambelin Kwaymullina. ‘A prose-style manifesto about our settler-colonial present; a call and a guide to action…challenges Australia to come to terms with its own past and its place within and on ‘Indigenous Countries’.’
Blakwork – Alison Whittaker. ‘A powerful collection of memoir, reportage, fiction, satire, critique’ that interrogates our colonial past and present.
Took the children away – Archie Roach
Archie Roach reads the picture book (2010) of his powerful 1990 song, with illustrations by Ruby Hunter.
Books made into films 2020
Some of these probably didn’t get released this year. Includes: David Copperfield (Dickens); Chaos walking (Ness); The witches (Dahl); The invisible man (Wells); Rebecca (Du Maurier); The secret garden (Burnett); Deep water (Highsmith); Dune (Herbert).
2020 Ned Kelly Awards
For Australian crime writing. Winner 2020: The wife and the widow – Christian White. Best International Crime Fiction: The chain – Adrian McKinty.
https://www.austcrimewriters.com/news/2020/10/14/the-2020-ned-kelly-awards-winners
Dymocks
2020 Top 101: Includes Throne of glass series – S. Maas; Magician – R. Feist; Good omens – T. Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. https://www.dymocks.com.au/getmedia/0adc3f76-c6a3-4f37-a922-1f78d4b6d6a0/Dymocks_Top101_2020.aspx
Top 10 in many categories. https://www.dymocks.com.au/promotions/top-10
2020 Indie Book Awards
Includes: Tell me why – Archie Roach; There was still love – Favel Parrett.
https://www.indiebookawards.com.au/
Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2020
Includes Sand talk: how indigenous thinking can save the world – Tyson Yunkaporta.
https://abiawards.com.au/year-won/2020/
Books and Publishing: Inside the Australian Book Industry
News, reviews, book awards.
https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/
The case for reading fiction
Benefits include increased social acuity, the ability to comprehend other people’s motivations and keeping an open mind.
https://hbr.org/2020/03/the-case-for-reading-fiction
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
Fiction – the gateway drug to reading.
Book quotes
https://www.shortlist.com/news/the-40-most-powerful-literary-quotes
https://www.bookbub.com/blog/famous-book-quotes
https://www.stylist.co.uk/books/the-best-100-closing-lines-from-books/123681
https://bookroo.com/blog/the-100-best-quotes-about-reading
Quiz: https://brokebybooks.com/an-epic-list-of-50-literature-trivia-quiz-questions/
Book covers
Iconic covers…The great Gatsby, Catch-22, A clockwork orange….
https://www.abebooks.com/books/rarebooks/book-design-collectible-famous/iconic-book-covers.shtml
https://www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/book-cover-quiz/
How you feel when you finish a great book
This is absolutely a real thing!
https://bookriot.com/psychology-of-a-book-hangover/