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Post by pennylane on May 1, 2016 11:49:48 GMT
I have collected a few non-fiction books over the last year that I really want to get around to reading (preferably this year lol) which include -
Tree Books
Life On Air by David Attenborough
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson - READ
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade - Currently reading
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
Kindle
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson Deleting this and the one below as I didn't enjoy NFASI as much as I'd hoped
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson - READ
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman by Nora Ephron
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman - READ
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Post by janetandjohn on May 1, 2016 12:36:59 GMT
I have a few around the place, and will add them to "Mrs Mac's Special Challenge" as I read them. Good luck with yours!
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Post by pennylane on May 1, 2016 12:41:09 GMT
I have a few around the place, and will add them to "Mrs Mac's Special Challenge" as I read them. Good luck with yours! Thank you. Mine keep getting overlooked for the latest thriller to enter the house - I will try to read at least one every couple of months  |
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Post by proudmum on May 1, 2016 21:21:21 GMT
I'm currently crossing one off my list - The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama.
Good luck xx
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Post by rosemary3 on Jul 17, 2016 12:33:28 GMT
I'm doing well with non-fiction so far this year ... let's see if I can keep it up! Here's what I've read up to now:
The Koran - January
The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan & Barbara Pease - April
Letters from Menabilly by Daphne Du Maurier & Oriel Malet - May
Emma's War: Love, Betrayal and Death in the Sudan by Deborah Scroggins - June
Better Sight Without Glasses by Harry Benjamin - July (a very short one!)
A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39 by Nicola Beauman - July
I'll try for one a month for the rest of the year.
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Post by jen on Jul 21, 2016 18:35:24 GMT
I really should do the same as I buy them but never read them which is putting me off buying a book about Louis XIV
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Post by rosemary3 on Sept 6, 2016 11:54:25 GMT
I've read a couple more:
London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes - August
White Gold by Giles Milton - September
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Post by pennylane on Oct 9, 2016 21:59:52 GMT
Finished A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Post by rosemary3 on Oct 16, 2016 19:14:01 GMT
A London Home in the 1890s by Molly Hughes - October
Molly Hughes had a long engagement, during which time she worked as a teacher trainer, including going to a conference in America and travelling alone in Canada, in her 20s. Then she married and in the later part of the book, is keeping house in a flat in London. It was quite a revelation to me to see how much freedom some (working) women had in the 1890s.
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Post by pennylane on Nov 27, 2016 22:01:15 GMT
Have started The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson
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Post by rosemary3 on Nov 28, 2016 12:33:29 GMT
In November I read: England's Hour by Vera Brittain
About England (mostly but not all London) in 1939-40.
A remembrance day read. A bit different from most blitz memoirs because she was a committed pacifist who was devastated that the war had happened. Not a Hitler supporter, but just really sad and angry that he hadn't been dealt with differently and earlier, and sad for the young German as well as British airmen who were dying in the skies above her.
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Post by ziggysawdust on Dec 16, 2016 15:19:46 GMT
I LOVE non-fiction. I haven't read much for a while due to a combonation of busyness and trying to read a bit more widely than I usually do. I just love true stories to I read a lot of autobiograhpies.
I've got a lot of NF books I haven't read yet. I will post a list later but I really want to crack and get lots of them read in 2017
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Post by rosemary3 on Dec 16, 2016 18:14:25 GMT
In December I read: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
I loved this book but I can see why people might not, as there is a lot about T.H. White which is not/barely mentioned in the blurb. That all interested me so it added to it, for me.
I'll try for one a month again in 2017.
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Post by aileen11 on Dec 16, 2016 18:37:28 GMT
I try and read a NF every now and then too, most of them are biogs. I've just finished Steve & Me by Terri Irwin, about her life married to the Crocodile Hunter. Learnt a few new Aussie words! |
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Post by elliej84 on Dec 16, 2016 19:12:20 GMT
Were they swear words aileen11? They seem to be the words I pick up first  |
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