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Merilyn Simonds was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1949 and grew up in Brazil. Educated at the University of Western Ontario, she has worked as a freelance writer, magazine editor and, since 1991, has devoted herself full-time to writing. Simonds has published 10 books and numerous magazine mostra'n més articles on subjects such as the environment, games, and war. She has amassed a number of writing awards including the Canadian Science Writers' Award for magazine journalism in 1990, and the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted, for The Convict Lover: A True Story, in 1996. One of her best-known books is The (New) Games Treasury, which is an update of the 1993 edition in which she outlines the strategies, rules, and traditions of more than 300 board, piece, mind, and outdoor games, ranging from the familiar to the exotic. Merilyn Simonds resides in Kingston, Ontario with writer Wayne Grady. She is a regular on the Canadian Broadcasting Company's radio show "Basic Black." (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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(eng) Merilyn Simonds also wrote several non-fiction books under the names Merilyn Mohr and Merilyn Simonds Mohr.

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Obres de Merilyn Simonds

The Holding (2004) 68 exemplars
The New Games Treasury (1656) 57 exemplars
The Convict Lover: A True Story (1996) 56 exemplars
The Lion in the Room Next Door (1999) 53 exemplars
Breakfast at the Exit Cafe: Travels Through America (2010) — Autor — 39 exemplars
Refuge (2018) 9 exemplars
Night: A Literary Companion (2009) — Editor — 8 exemplars

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Nom normalitzat
Simonds, Merilyn
Altres noms
Mohr, Merilyn
Simonds Mohr, Merilyn
Data de naixement
1949
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
Canada
Llocs de residència
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Brazil
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Relacions
Grady, Wayne (husband)
Nota de desambiguació
Merilyn Simonds also wrote several non-fiction books under the names Merilyn Mohr and Merilyn Simonds Mohr.

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Excerpt from a longer article:

Timely Take-aways for Life-Long Learning: Birds and Birders

Several new and upcoming books explore the world of birds and birders. From naturalists and scientists to backyard birders, these books explore the wide range of ways people connect with birds.

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Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay
Merilyn Simonds, 2022, ECW Press, an imprint of Baker & Taylor Publisher Services
Themes: Biography, Naturalist, Birds

While living in an isolated cabin in Ontario, Canada, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence worked as a nurse then devoted her life to studying birds. The author connects the life story of this pioneer of ornithology with her own passion for songbirds.

Take-aways: Use Lawrence and Simonds as examples of how naturalists yesterday and today contribute to our understanding of birds through their observations and citizen science.

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Whether helping educators keep up-to-date in their subject-areas, promoting student reading in the content-areas, or simply encouraging nonfiction leisure reading, teacher librarians need to be aware of the best new titles across the curriculum and how to activate life-long learning. - Annette Lamb
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eduscapes | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Oct 23, 2022 |
In keeping with women trying to find solace in nature, this is a book for you, disillusionment, misguided career path or just not know who you are - isolation in the woods may be an answer to discovery. Nature rejuvenates as this author points out and what an inspiration the book was to me. I loved this and compared it to Macdonald's H is for Hawk and Thoreau's The Maine Woods both inspirational and so helpful to your spirit. I would recommend anyone who loves nature and gets refilled by it to read this you won't be disappointed… (més)
 
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mgallantfnp | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | May 26, 2022 |
Louise de Kiriline Lawrence gave up a life of privilege in Sweden in exchange for a life of adventure. She became a Red Cross Nurse during WWI. She married a prisoner of war and followed him to Russia, fending for herself when he entered the White Russian army and was captured. She immigrated to Canada where she was a nurse responsible in Northern Ontario and became the nurse to the famous Dionne quintuplets. Louise bought a plot of land on Pimisi Bay and built a primitive log cabin. There, she observed birds and wrote books and scholarly papers, living with her younger, second husband Len.

Bird watcher Merilyn Simonds knew Louise and after her death, bought Louise’s log cabin. She read everything by Louise, letters and books. Her deep knowledge and love for her subject shows in this remarkable biography.

As each chapter of Louise’s life came to a close, I thought ‘here’s where I speed read,’ only to discover that the next chapter was just as amazing and interesting.

If you love books about birds and nature, Woman, Watching is for you. If you like to read about strong women who forge their own unique path, this biography is for you. If you are interested in women writers and the challenges they face, you will love Louise. There is tragic romance. The challenge of aging. A brush with fame and resisting commercialization. The power of friendship. And of course, there are the stories of the birds, the insights into their lives based on hours of personal observation.

It’s a marvelous biography.

I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
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nancyadair | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Mar 26, 2022 |
This was a complicated book. The opening chapters provide a light background on the advent of printing and focus almost exclusively on the impact of modern technology in order to make the reader understand the state of publishing and what it has been . However, from there we seep into a world filled with Simonds' own possibilities of what this means and how it reflects on us as humans in a digitized world. A history is included, but I felt that it touched too lightly on the historical aspects and more focused on the here and now. The various writing projects that she engaged in, retrospectively, speak of her time in Kingston involved in various means to try and keep the fire, the hope of writing, alive. Simonds still speaks of the new advents of publishing that it seems she hopes will counteract and lead to a future for storytelling. An important quote, resting within the conclusion, is: "That's why we desperately need stories to escape our fate, to cope, to learn, to remember." This is the ideal that permeates her writing and drives her forward.

This was a good book. Great food for thought to imbue the soul. A job well-done.
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DanielSTJ | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | May 5, 2019 |

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