Week 5: (Nov. 26 to 30) - New to My TBR Hosted by Katie @ Doing DeweyIt’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book.Before I get started on this year's final non-fiction November post I … Continue reading Non-Fiction November – Week 5
By all accounts Megan Hess' books about fashion should not be my thing at all. I'm not into fashion, haute couture or otherwise. I don't give a fig about luxury brands or prestigious designers. But Coco Chanel has always fascinated me - it's her rags and riches story that intrigues me more than her fashion … Continue reading Iconic:The Masters of Italian Fashion by Megan Hess
Week 4: (Nov. 19 to 23) – Reads Like Fiction with Rennie @ What’s Nonfiction.Nonfiction books often get praised for how they stack up to fiction. Does it matter to you whether nonfiction reads like a novel? If it does, what gives it that fiction-like feeling? Does it depend on the topic, the writing, the use of certain … Continue reading Non-Fiction November – Week 4
Week 3: (Nov. 12 to 16) – Be The Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert (Julie @ JulzReads): Three ways to join in this week! You can either share three 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 … Continue reading Non-Fiction November – Week 3
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to … Continue reading The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper
Week 2: (Nov. 5 to 9) – Fiction / Nonfiction Book Pairing (Sarah’s Book Shelves): 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 … Continue reading Non-Fiction November – Week 2
Wahoo!Here it is - Nonfiction November - one of my favourite times in the book blogging year.Hosted this year by Julie (JulzReads), Sarah (Sarah’s Book Shelves), Katie (Doing Dewey), and Rennie (What’s Nonfiction) — Nonfiction November is a month-long celebration of everything nonfiction. Each week, there will be a different prompt and a different host … Continue reading Non-Fiction November – Week 1
One of the things I love about reading is the synchronicity that can happen sometimes. Last night I finished A Gentlemen in Moscow after a wonderful reading week in its company. This morning I started Frankenstein, which I thought was set in Europe somewhere, maybe Switzerland. It may still be, as I've only just tackled the … Continue reading Stories & Shout Outs #17
I've had a lovely run of Text Classics during this year's #AusReadingMonth. It wasn't what I had planned though. Unexpected sad family news threw every plan and good intention out the window. As for reading matters, I fell back into the waiting arms of my comfort genre - classic/historical fiction. Text Classics softened the landing!Aunts … Continue reading Aunts Up the Cross by Robin Dalton
Touted as a pocket-sized antidote to fake news, Leigh Sales essay On Doubt has been re-released eight years after it's initial 2009 publication in the Little Books on Big Themes series. With the on-going, even increased need for a discussion on self-doubt, balance and truth in our modern lives, this little book has struck a chord … Continue reading On Doubt by Leigh Sales
This week's topic for Nonfiction November is Be the Expert/Ask the Expert/Become the Expert:Three ways to join in this week! You can either share three 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 … Continue reading Non-Fiction November: Be the Expert
I had a rather unexpected, almost obsessive response to Jonathan Jones' installation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney last year. It touched me in ways that I'm still finding hard to catch and define. My fascination kicked in at several levels: the fire the architecture the history the cultural aspect the loss the healing the … Continue reading barrangal dyara (skin and bones) Jonathan Jones
And so it begins....Who knew five years ago when the wonderful hosts of #NonFictionNovember dreamed up their annual celebration of all things non-fiction, that on the other side of world I'd be dreaming up my very #AusReadingMonth for exactly the same month!Over the five years I have tried to juggle both challenges by highlighting as … Continue reading Non-Fiction November
Neon Pilgrim: A Memoir of Walking Japan's Henro Michi seemed to be designed to appeal just to me right now, being in the middle of holiday preparations for Japan, as I am. Not that I'm planning to walk around any of the 88 Temples in Shikoku or run away for two months to find myself, as … Continue reading Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster
The extraordinary thing about Bill Gammage's award winning book, The Biggest Estate on Earth, is how obvious what he is saying really is when you look at the records - the letters, the journals, the paintings and sketches of early colonial times in Australia.How on earth did we not see this before?In every early convict … Continue reading The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage
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