Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Nonfiction November 2015 - Week 1



Your Year in Nonfiction: Take a look back at your year of nonfiction and reflect on the following questions – What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year? What nonfiction book have you recommended the most? What is one topic or type of nonfiction you haven’t read enough of yet? What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?

Link up your week one post on Kim's (Sophisticated Dorkiness) site.





Nonfiction November was made for me! I'm an unabashed reader of nonfiction. For me it's not a departure in my reading, it's the destination!

What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year?

Of the 90 books I've read so far this year, 63 (70%) have been nonfiction. Can I even choose a favorite book? Not really. So I'll give you two of my favorites from my favorite nonfiction category: memoir. This year I loved Ruth Reichl's Garlic and Sapphires and Jen Lancaster's I Regret Nothing.

What nonfiction book have you recommended the most?

I think the answer would be Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, although I'm not sure if you can count that book as straight nonfiction. Whatever it is, it's one heck of a book.

What is one topic or type of nonfiction you haven’t read enough of yet?

I haven't read enough of any kind of nonfiction! I love it all: memoir, biography, narrative history, cookbooks, photography, etc.

What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?

I hope to get more titles to add to my reading list. Also, I just love the community of readers talking about my favorite slice of the reading pie.

10 comments:

  1. Are you enjoying The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating? I found it to be quite mesmerising. Sadly I read it before I was blogging about adult books so there is no review to refresh my memory of it, but parts of it stayed with me for a long time.

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    1. I'm enjoying it, but I'm not loving it like I thought I would. I'm trying to puzzle out why as I go.

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  2. I love all kinds of nonfiction too! I really enjoyed The Residence, so I'll be excited to hear what you think of it :)

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    1. Glad you liked it. I just began it last night, and I think I'm going to really enjoy it. I'm a White House junkie and lover of presidential trivia, so this one should be perfect for me.

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  3. That is an impressive amount of nonfiction! Glad the rest of us can enter your domain for a month. ;)

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    1. I didn't know I liked to read until I discovered nonfiction. I read Madame Curie and never looked back!

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  4. Jen Lancaster is hit and miss for me. I liked one of her books, but then really disliked another... I can't remember titles now, of course. Glad you're joining us for Nonfiction November!

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    1. I'm not sure I'd enjoy her fiction, and I haven't read her earlier books, only her two most recent. In some ways we're a lot alike, but we're just enough different for her to be interesting. I find her quite entertaining--but I wouldn't want to be around her every day!

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  5. I recommend In Cold Blood all the time too. It's such an amazing reading experience, no matter what it is, as you put it!

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    1. I'm so glad I tried it. I was, like most people, afraid the book would be too gruesome, but it was so well crafted. I still can't get over it.

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