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Book Pairings
hosted by Julz of Julz Reads
This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title.
It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!”
or just two titles that you think would go well together.
Maybe it’s a historical novel and you’d like to get the real history
by reading a nonfiction version of the story.
Today, I’m offering you 3 novels paired with 3 nonfiction books I read this year
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BOOK PAIRING #1
BIRDS
 
Migrations:
VERDICT: Both beautiful and heart-wrenching. And of course, a must for all birders.
Franny, from Galway, Ireland, knows that it’s probably the last time the Arctic Terns are migrating, so she decided to follow and accompany them on their last journey.
She goes to Greenland, where the bird starts its migration, and manages to convince Captain Ennis Malone to accept her on his shipping boat The Saghani. His crew has had a hard time finding fish, also because of global warming and all we have done to our planet, but Franny is a scientist and knows that the Arctic Tern adjusts its route to where they can find fish to eat. So that should work, right?
Things get complicated…
BOOK PAIRING #2
MARIE-ANTOINETTE
 
Becoming Marie-Antoinette:
The book is excellent at describing the royal families and all the petty details of everyday life, from the rising to the preparation for the night; at showing what it would have taken to become the queen of France, lots of advantages maybe, but also lots of sacrifices.
BOOK PAIRING #3
TEA
 
The Broken Teaglass:
Take words, a job with words and dictionaries, and a good mystery, well, how could I resist that!
A neat, smart, very enjoyable and quick read.
HAVE YOU READ ANY OF THESE?
WOULD YOU HAVE ANOTHER
BOOK PAIRING RELATED TO BIRDS OR TEA?
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Nice pairings! Books about birds or tea, hm… H is for Hawk is the only one I can think of offhand.
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Definitely a great one!
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Great topics! I especially love the Marie Antoinette one!
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Yes, these were great books indeed
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Yes I would read them all – all are fascinating and haven’t read any of them – yet.
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I hope you have a chance to do so one day
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I like all three of your pairing but especially the one about teas. I’m making a note of these books. Thanks for sharing!
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The nonfiction Japanese classic on the history of tea was really fascinating
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A pairing that comes to mind, where I loved both books is The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas and The Black Count, Tom Reiss’ biography of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. General Dumas, Alexander’s father, was betrayed and thrown in prison to rot. His son’s novel is inspired by this true story from history.
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YES! I so loved that book. I reviewed it here https://wordsandpeace.com/2012/11/14/i-love-france-35-2012-58-review-the-black-count/.
It was in fact one of my favorite books read in 2012: https://wordsandpeace.com/2013/01/03/year-of-reading-2012/
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Vesper Flight is on my TBR already–I read and liked the bird parts of H is for Hawk-White’s life was too troubled for me. It nearly gave me nightmares. All of these sound interesting–the Tea books are a very likely read. Thank you.
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You won’t have any of these problems in these books. Plus they are short essays
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Ok. Thanks
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Yes. Excellent. Of course. Vesper Flight and Migrations. I read both of these and it did not even enter my mind. Wonderful.
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Amazing indeed that we have these 2 books the same year!
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Excellent choices!
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Thanks Judy
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I’ve read at least one historical fiction book about Marie Antoinette (Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund) but I don’t think I’ve read any nonfiction about her. I’ll look for your recommendation.
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And thanks, I’ll look into Abundance
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I read quite a lot of books about birds but only non-fiction ones! I guess you could pair H for Hawk with Kes, though.
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Wait, what’s Kes?
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I’m sorry, the book is A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines, Kes is the film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Kestrel_for_a_Knave
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wow, sounds fascinating, thanks so much. Just added the book to my list of classics to read, and the movie to my list of movies to check out from my public library
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Ooh, Vesper Flights and Migrations is a great pairing. I’ve not read either, but am excited to get to both.
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Both are really amazing books, each in its own genre
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We share a book pairing!! I bet that doesn’t happen often, especially with one of them being an Australian book. I haven’t finished Vesper Flights yet, but what I’ve read so far, made the combo an easy one to pick.
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Yeah! I’m surprised not more book bloggers in this group has read The Last Migration/Migrations. I was happy to see it in the semifinals for the Goodreads award
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Great pairing. Especially interested in Marie Antoinette.
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Definitely great reads
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Great pairings. I’d love to read some of them.
My topic was on tulips.
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They are definitely worth your time. Thanks for stopping by
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Any other ideas connected with birds you ask? Well there is the very obvious short story by Daphne du Maurier that was the inspiration for Hitchcock’s film The Birds. It was published in a 1952 collection called The Apple Tree. Hitchock’s film is set in USA but Maurier set hers in Cornwall.
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Thanks, I haven’t read it yet, there are so many books by Daphne I want to read!
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