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The geographical term I chose for this week’s prompt is wetlands. That is to say, areas of land that link water and land together. Some of them are always wet, while others can go through periods of being as dry as regular land depending on the season. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs.
I chose this term because one of the places I grew up in used to be a wetland before the land was drained and turned into farmland. It’s a beautiful place, but the mosquitoes there are overwhelming in the summer. I’ve often wished that my ancestors had left it the way it originally was and built their homes somewhere else instead.
1. Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination by Barbara Hurd
2. Swampwalker’s Journal: A Wetlands Year by David M. Carroll
3. Danger in Blackwater Swamp by Saundra Kelley
4. Birds of Lake Pond & Marsh: Water and Wetland Birds of Eastern North America by John Eastman
5. The Ghost Orchid Ghost: And Other Tales from the Swamp by Doug Alderson
6. The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise by Michael Grunwald
7. The Geese of Beaver Bog by Bernd Heinrich
8. In the Salt Marsh by Nancy Willard
9. Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story by Thomas F. Yezerski
10. The Bog by Michael Talbot
My all-time favourite plot line is rebirth. That is to say, the audience is introduced to a morally ambiguous character (or even a downright jerk) who learns the error of his or her ways and eventually make a genuine and permanent change in their behaviour for the better.
I don’t own a lot of books due to how amazing my local public library is, but here are some I loved that I do own in ebook form.
Of course, I still draw boundaries about what I’m willing to read and watch. I do not consume stories that make excuses for violence, hatred, or any form of abuse.
Today’s theme is a school freebie, so I’m going to talk about something that doesn’t usually fit into the speculative fiction I blog about here.
The vast majority of the books I read are ebooks, so my place is always marked in them automatically unless there’s a technological glitch. That doesn’t make for a very fun answer to this week’s prompt, so I’ll keep talking.
I struggled with this week’s topic. As I mentioned 
Anyone who has participated in the Wednesday Weekly Blog Challenge or who has followed this blog for a few years will probably not be surprised by this answer at all.
Sometimes I’ve had to expand Top Ten Tuesday topics a little in order to come up with decent answers for them. Today I’m going to contract my options down to books written between the years of 2000 and 2012.
When I was a teenager, I wrote a little bit of fan fiction for a couple of my favourite worlds (Narnia and the prehistoric world set in Jean M. Auel’s Earth’s Children series that I’ve talked about here so often, if you’re curious). I never finished any of it and it doesn’t exist anymore so far as I know, but I had a wonderful time playing around with characters and settings I knew so well.