Do you love book clubs or recommendation lists? Do you love reading? 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 third theme is “Why might authors use archaeology in mystery novels?” As you might have guessed, each book in the series falls into the mystery or whodunit genre and highlights the cool ways archaeological knowledge and data appear or sometimes disappear in fiction. They’re a great chance to see how archaeological information, belongings, and artifacts influence diverse, non-archaeologist, authors’ crafting of cryptic codices.
We’ve linked to each video in this blog, so check them out!
Artifact by Gigi Pandian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7NZ85TS
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M78P5XNB
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7N014P8
簪中录 (Zān zhōng lù) or The Golden Hairpin by 侧侧轻寒 (Cè cè qīng hán or Qinghan Cece)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7H70CZJ
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 release A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads Fiction Book Club Data Story for open 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.
