#NonficNov
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Doing Dewey is organizing a fun month around nonfiction! I plan to participate a bit. Here is the topic for 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?
First of all, here is the recap of the nonfiction I have read (the links will send you to my review when it’s posted):
France/French authors:
- La cache, by Christophe Boltanski – ebook
- How to Talk About Places You’ve Never Been: On the Importance of Armchair Travel, by Pierre Bayard
- Thirsty Dragon: China’s Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World’s Best Wines, by Suzanne Mustacich – audiobook
- Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time: A Reader’s Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past, by Patrick Alexander
- Pancakes in Paris, by Craig Carlson – ebook, for review. Review coming soon
Orthodoxy:
- Toward the Endless Day: The Life of Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, by Olga Lossky
- Orthodox Spirituality, by Dumitru Staniloae
- Patristic Theology, by John Romanides
- Saint Innocent, Apostle to America, by Paul D. Garrett
- The Blessed Surgeon: The Life of Saint Luke Archbishop of Simferopol
Other:
- In Other Words, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction, by M.A. Orthofer – ebook, for review. I ended up buying a print copy
- James Joyce: Portrait of a Dubliner, by Alfonso Zapico
- Agatha: The Real Life of Agatha Christie, by Anne Martinetti
NB: I should be able to finish one more, it will also be a book on Orthodoxy
What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year?
Click on the cover to read my detailed review
What nonfiction book have you recommended the most?
What is one topic or type of nonfiction
you haven’t read enough of yet?
As usual, current issues!
Next year, I also plan to go systematically through all the nonfiction on my TBR
What are you hoping to get out
of participating in Nonfiction November?
Get acquainted with more nonfiction readers and good titles unknown to me.
Words And Peace 
The Complete Review is an excellent choice, such a labour of love.
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yes, I really enjoyed it
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The Complete Review Guide sounds like a great resource. I want to read more world literature and translations. I hope my library might have a copy (if not, I’ll urge them to buy it). Enjoy Nonfiction November!
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yes, it’s really amazing. I buy very few books, but this is definitely one worth buying, to have as a reference, it’s not a book you just read once for all. You are familiar with his website, right?
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I was not familiar with the website, but I will certainly check it out.
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yes, it’s excellent. his book is partially a summary and analysis based on all the books he reviewed there
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Pancakes in Paris sounds like fun, and thanks for reminding me about Jhumpa Lahiri’s book. I wanted to read that one, too.
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Pancakes in Paris is actually quite an eye opener on the business world in France
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I’m quite interested in the Complete Review Guide, too. I put it on my wish list. Maybe I will get it for my birthday this month.
BTW, I just got home from the Texas Book Festival where I was a volunteer author guide. Guess who I guided from place to place? Two mystery authors who set their stories in Paris?!
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I found them: Cara Black and Mark Pryor, 2 authors I have often reviewed. Wonderful! I was amazed to see the number of authors there! Looking forward to read your post on the event.
And yes that book would be a wonderful birthday gift 😉
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