#NonficNov
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POST EDITED on 11/06:
After visiting another blogger who mentioned Mary Oliver, I realized I forgot to include poetry, and I did read some awesome ones!!
Like every year, a bunch of really cool bloggers are co-hosting Nonfiction November.
Here is the topic for Week 1 (Nov. 1-5):
YOUR YEAR IN NONFICTION
Hosted by Rennie at What’s 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?
Do you have a particular topic you’ve been attracted to more this year?
What nonfiction book have you recommended the most?
What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?
Here is the recap of the nonfiction I have read (the links will send you to my review when it’s posted).
So far, I have read or listened to 43 nonfiction, which is already 22% more than last year (I read 35 nonfiction in 2020).
And I may read a couple more before the end of the year.
Here are the titles. Obviously, most of these are Biblical books, as I finished my project of relistening to the whole Old Testament.
Bible and religious books:
- The Book of Psalms
- The Book of Job
- The Book of Proverbs
- The Book of Ecclesiastes
- The Book of the Song of Songs
- The Book of Wisdom
- The Book of Sirach
- The Book of Hosea
- The Book of Amos
- The Book of Micah
- The Book of Joel
- The Book of Obadiah
- The Book of Jonah
- The Book of Nahum
- The Book of Habakkuk
- The Book of Zephaniah
- The Book of Haggai
- The Book of Zechariah
- The Book of Malachi
- The Book of Isaiah
- The Book of Jeremiah
- The Book of Baruch
- The Book of Lamentations
- The Book of Ezekiel
- The Book of Daniel – so all the above were audiobooks.
They count for The Classics Club and The Books in Translation Challenge - The New Testament, by David Bentley Hart
I read this new translation.
It counts for The Classics Club and The Books in Translation Challenge - Less Than Fully Catholic, by Trisha Day
About words and authors:
- Le Jourde & Naulleau, by Pierre Jourde and Eric Naulleau
- A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life, by George Saunders
- Languages of Truth, by Salman Rushdie
- Living With a Dead Language, by Ann Patty
- Sur la lecture, by Marcel Proust
It counts for The Classics Club - History in English Words, by Owen Barfield
It counts for The Classics Club - Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic, by Alice Kaplan
About science:
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson
About history:
- The Romanov Sisters, by Helen Rappaport
About Japan:
- In Praise of Shadows, by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
It counts for The Classics Club and The Books in Translation Challenge
On contemporary issues:
- The Future of Buildings, Transportation, and Power, by Roger Duncan & Michael E. Webber
About nature:
- A Bird Watcher’s Guide to Blue Jays, by Katherine Ponka
Poetry:
- The Half-Finished Heaven, by Tomas Tranströmer
- The Lost Spells, by Robert MacFarlane & Jackie Morris
- Alphabet, by Paul Valéry
- Haiku: This Other World, by Richard Wright
I also reviewed 8 books published by Rockridge Press, but I didn’t read these books from A to Z as I would read other books, so I didn’t count them in my statistics.
So really, this was a big nonfiction year for me.
I’m very happy for the diversity of topics as well.
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What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year?
I had to choose two. And it was very difficult. I actually loved a lot titles 2 to 7 in my “words and authors” category above.
What nonfiction books
have you recommended the most?
Do you have a particular topic
you’ve been attracted to more this year?
Besides religious topics, words and authors
What are you hoping to get out
of participating in Nonfiction November?
As usual, to get acquainted with more nonfiction readers
and find good titles unknown to me.
WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE NONFICTION THIS YEAR?
And I managed to write a short review for The Book of Tea (will be live on 1/12).
Words And Peace 