Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories.  He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.  Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr attended the nearby University School, graduating in 1991.  He then majored in history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, graduating in 1995. He earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University.  Doerr's first book was a collection of short stories called The Shell Collector (2002).  Many of the stories take place in countries within Africa and New Zealand, where he has worked and lived.  His first novel, About Grace, was released in 2004.  His memoir, Four Seasons in Rome, was published in 2007, and his second collection of short stories, Memory Wall, was published in 2010.  Doerr's second novel, All the Light We Cannot See, is set in occupied France during World War II and was published in 2014.  It received significant critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.  The book was a New York Times bestseller, and was named by the newspaper as a notable book of 2014.  It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015.  It was runner-up for the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction and won the 2015 Ohioana Library Association Book Award for Fiction.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Doerr   

Coppicing is a sustainable forestry technique that uses nature’s capacity for regeneration to continually harvest wood from a living tree.  Many hardwood trees will attempt to regrow after being cut down.  Trees like maples and oaks will send up numerous shoots from their stumps, (called a stool if the tree is being coppiced,) which allows for repeated harvests on a set cycle.  When a tree like a maple is cut, the resulting shoots can be thinned, leaving a relatively small number of shoots.  These shoots will grow, resulting in a multi-trunk tree.  You can harvest these new trunks once they reach the size you need.  See pictures at https://www.growingwithnature.org/what-is-coppicing/   

phytomining (uncountable)  noun  (biotechnology)  The planting and harvesting of vegetation that selectively concentrates specific metals from the environment into their tissues, for the purpose of commercial exploitation of the extracted metal.  Synonym:  agromining  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phytomining#English     

Notable Children's Books – 2023  Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) identifies the best of the best in children's books.  "Notable" is defined as:  of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding.  As applied to children's books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for all age levels (birth through age 14) that reflect and encourage children's interests in exemplary ways.  According to ALSC policy, the current year's Newbery, Caldecott,  Belpré, Sibert, Geisel, and Batchelder Award and Honor books automatically are added to the Notable Children's Books list.  These categories loosely represent the following:  Younger Readers – Preschool-grade 2 (age 7), including easy-to-read books; Middle Readers – Grades 3-5, ages 8-10; Older Readers – Grades 6-8, ages 11-14; All Ages – Has appeal and interest for children in all of the above age ranges.  Find list of titles at https://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb    

Feedback from Bryan Todd  Subject:  -  fractal  The Dragon Curve (video, 2 min.) is as pretty as any simple fractal patterns you’ll find.  AWADmail Issue 1115   

A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg   angary or angaria  (ANG-guh-ree, ang-GAR-ee-uh)  noun:  The right of a warring nation to seize the property, for example, ships, of a neutral country, provided compensation is paid.  From French angarie (imposition), from Latin angaria (forced service), from Greek angareia (impressment for public service), from Persian hamkara (herald).  Earliest documented use:  1880.  Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894)    

What does it mean to one day sit down to a banquet of consequences?  Well, it is a more elegant version of the well-known saying ‘what goes around comes around’ or the biblical version that ‘you reap what you sow’.  It seems many wise folk have tried to convince us that when we let ourselves off the hook of accountability, the ultimate repercussions may not fit into the self-created and convenient notion that it doesn’t really matter, it doesn’t really count, no-one is looking, it’s not that important, so who cares?   https://challengingcoaching.co.uk/who-wants-to-be-the-accountability-killjoy/    

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2744  November 13, 2023