#NonficNov
#nonfictionbookparty: Instagram Daily Challenge
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Here is the topic for Week 3 (Nov. 15-19):
Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert
hosted by Veronica at The Thousand Book Project

Three ways to join in this week!
You can either share 3 or more books
on a single topic that you have read and can recommend (be the expert),
you can put the call out for good nonfiction on a specific topic
that you have been dying to read (ask the expert),
or you can create your own list of books
on a topic that you’d like to read (become the expert).

I realized I quite often recommend some graphic nonfiction, so I decided to be the expert today on that. Plus, I think this genre needs better recognition. In my library, they are labeled as “nonfiction graphic novels”, which really doesn’t make any sense.

Here are a few categories.
Most of the graphic nonfiction books I have read are

BIOGRAPHIES

Click on the covers to access my review/the book on Goodreads

ABOUT BOOKS

These two are so good and so on target. Perfect ideas for Christmas gifts for book lovers:

MEMOIRS

Ichi-F is quite powerful! I don’t think I’ll ever forget that book.

PHILOSOPHY

HAVE YOU READ ANY OF THESE GRAPHIC NONFICTION BOOKS?
ANY OTHER YOU WOULD RECOMMEND?
PLEASE SHARE THEM HERE

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November 2020 WRAP-UP

Phew, that was actually a busy month, reading-wise and otherwise, for instance with 3 new French students. In a way, I’m glad we are back in confinement, so less opportunity for distractions! And obviously, less chances to catch the virus.

I have FINALLY restarted a Newsletter. It has a small fee, but each month 11 subscribers will receive a book based on their favorite genres!
10 will receive an ecopy and 1 a print copy (as long as Bookdepositery ships to their country). If you haven’t signed up yet, here is the November Newsletter as a sample, with the form to subscribe near the end.

November is the month about Nonfiction, and I had a great time with this event.

I also finished my 2nd list of 50 classics, and launched into my 3rd list, with 137 titles this time.

📚 Here is what I read in November.
Actually more audiobooks (with record time this month!) than printed books, I guess this has become a trend for me in 2020, maybe due to Covid-19?

11 books:
4 in print
= with 1,288 pages, a daily average of 42 pages/day
7 in audio
= 33H54, a daily average of 1H07

4 in mystery:

Black Coffee, A Mystery Play in Three Acts, #7 by Agatha Christie – for The Classics Club
Lord Edgware Dies, #9 by Agatha Christie – audio, for The Classics Club
Écouter le noir, by various authors – French audio
Murder on the Orient Express, #10 by Agatha Christie – audio, for The Classics Club

4 in nonfiction:

The Book of Tobit – audio, for The Classics Club
The Book of Judith – audio, for The Classics Club
The Book of Esther – audio, for The Classics Club
Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, by Kazuto Tatsuta – graphic “novel”

1 in historical fiction:

The Education of Delhomme: Chopin, Sand, & la France, by Nancy Burkhalter – for France Book Tours

1 in science fiction:

To Hold Up the Sky, by Liu Cixin – ebook for review, received through Netgalley

1 in YA:

La Chute du soleil de fer, by Michel Bussi – French audio

MY FAVORITE BOOKS THIS PAST MONTH

Actually this month both my favorites are French, and not yet translated.
Écouter le noir is a fascinating collection of thriller short stories, some actually almost horror, mostly based on the theme of deafness. A neat twist to these stories, by some authors I had never heard of. Very enjoyable collection!
As for La Chute du soleil de fer, this was really neat surprise: a YA fantasy (both genres I rarely read), by one of my favorite French authors. There was no way I was going to pass his latest novel, even if it was not in his usual mystery genre. And I am sure glad I took the plunge.
It’s set in Paris in a post-apocalyptic world, with two groups of teenagers and younger children. The adults are all gone. I loved these kids, and the settings, and how they try to make sense of what as survived form our world.
I can’t wait for next volume in the series!