an adventure in reading: CHALLENGE: Non-Fiction Five Challenge

Sunday, May 2, 2010

CHALLENGE: Non-Fiction Five Challenge

Once again, Trish is hosting the Non-Fiction Five Challenge.

1. Read 5 non-fiction books during the months of May - September, 2010 (please link your reviews on Mister Linky each month; Mister Linky can be found at the beginning of each month on this blog)

2. Read at least one non-fiction book that is different from your other choices (i.e.: 4 memoirs and 1 self-help)

3. If interested, please sign up here with the link to your NFF Challenge post (all choices do not need to be posted and may change at any time)

The pool of books I really want to read:

~~Age of Persuasion~~ by Terry O'Reilly and Mike Tennant
-Fans of the CBC radio show of the same name know what this will be about, and the subtitle says it all: How Marketing Ate Out Culture

~~Driving Over Lemons~~ by Chris Stewart
-Found this at the booksale yesterday. Sounds like a Bill Bryson travel-esque trip to Spain

~~The Madman and the Professor~~ ~~by Simon Winchester~~
-subtitle says: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dicitonary

~~Candy Girl~~ ~~by Cody Diablo~~ DNF couldn't get into it and it felt like she was stripping only to get material for this book
-memoir of by the writer of Juno, and her time as a stripper

plus something else from this other list of books I really want to read:
The Elegant Universe by Brian Green
The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This by Bob Newhart
The Great Influenza by John Barry
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places, By Bill Streever

Books Actually Read:
1. The Age of Persuasion - Terry O'Reilly & Mike Tennant
2. Invincible Louisa - Cornelia Meigs
3. The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
4. Driving Over Lemons - Chris Stewart
5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

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Bellezza 36p · 778 weeks ago

Every time this challenge comes up I feel I should join...the only problem is there are so many fiction books I want to get to first! I'm terrible at nonfiction, and should really force myself to read more.

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raidergirl3 91p · 778 weeks ago

I certainly read more fiction - I think I've only read 3 so far this year. The books on my list are mostly books I own already. I will force myself a bit to read the books. I leave them in the living room and read a bit every day. Like vitamins - they're good for me.

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Aths · 778 weeks ago

Aaah.. this couldn't have come up at a better time. I just recently made a resolution to read one NF per month. So this would be just perfect.

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raidergirl3 91p · 778 weeks ago

That'll be my pace - one book per month. By this point of the year, when I've read 3 NF, it feels like a good time to make a better effort to read some of these nonfiction books, that I want to read anyway. Got any good ones you plan to read?