Do you love reading? Do you love book clubs or recommendation lists? Do you have an interest in archaeology? If you said “yes” to at least one of these questions, we’d love for you to check out our book blurb videos, which are part of our Data Story, A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads Fiction Book Club!
Because the video blurbs for A Pun Goes Here are so short, we’re sharing them by theme instead of by video. Our first theme is “Can you tell an archaeologist wrote this?” As you might have guessed, each book in the series was written by an author who, at one point, was an archaeologist. The books belong to different genres and highlight the many cool things archaeologists write about when they’re not doing archaeology. They’re also a great chance to see how direct experience with archaeology might influence how someone writes fiction.
We’ve linked to each video in this blog so check them out!
A Climate of Fear by Fred Vargas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7XD0ZT7
Braving Fate by Linsey Hall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7DF6PC2
Prudence by Gail Carriger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7154F60
Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7WH2N41
You can check out the rest of our book blurbs already on YouTube. More than that though, if you enjoy these videos, check back soon when we open the full A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads Fiction Book Club Data Story for peer review. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the Data Literacy Program’s Paulina promoting these books. Happy Reading!
Image Credits: “A Pun Goes Here Educators Image” by Paulina F. Przystupa from the Data Literacy Program (DLP) licensed CC BY-SA and includes adaptations of “dark blue bookcase” by L. Meghan Dennis an adaptation of an Adobe stock image and “APunGoesHere_Hat” by L. Meghan Dennis with attribution information forthcoming.
