Recommended Nonfiction Lists Challenge - 2018

[[deleted user]]

Message #20 updated

[Overbooked ✎]

12. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Progress: 12/18

[Heather]

updated message 76

8/12

[Chrissy]

Update to message 37! Finished The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness. Great book, I recommend. Now 2/15!

[Rachelnyc]

Updated message 141.

5/24

[Amanda]

Update #18


1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Completed 6/3/18 Rating 5 stars

1/5

[Geralyn]

I am not sure how to add a finished book. I thought I had done it correctly but it says I have read 0/6. I read, "Killers of the Flower Moon." what should I be doing? Tia.

[jb]

I’d like to join the challenge. I love reading non fiction. Please put me down for 12.

NONFICTION

1. Life's Too Short to Go So F*cking Slow: Lessons from an Epic Friendship That Went the Distance
2. A Healthy Dose of Motivation: Includes 'The Aladdin Factor' and 'Dare to Win'
3. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
4. Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
5. Holidays on Ice
6. The Glass Castle
7. Visualization: Directing the Movies of Your Mind
8. Living Forever Young: The Ten Secrets to Optimal Strength, Energy & Vitality

8/12 progress

[Daniel]

Updated post #59:
12/50

[Kadijah Michelle]

Everyone is updated!

[Jennifer]

Update to message 148.

Recently finished Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused. This was an interesting discussion of the Dutch tulip craze in the 1630's. I was surprised to learn that most of the people involved were amateurs who conducted their business at local taverns. They would meet two or three times a week in a tavern’s private back room to buy and sell, as well as talk, drink, and smoke tobacco (after reading some of this I was surprised it wasn’t something else). Now I understand more about how things got so crazy: One seldom makes rational decisions while partying with friends late into the night with lots of alcohol on hand.

My more extensive thoughts can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... - messages 34 and 35.

9/24

[Lauren]

Finished 18/20. Just read I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World. Loved comparing this version to I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.

[Caraina]

updated message 57
completed 7/12

[Overbooked ✎]

13. The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History

14. Educated

progress: 14/18

[Heather]

Updated message 76

completed 9/12

[Jenn]

Edited message 5
2/15

[[deleted user]]

msg #20 updated - 4/22

[Overbooked ✎]

15. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

Progress: 15/18

[Jennifer]

Update to message 162.

Recently finished Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World. This book traced the influence of the Byzantium’s influence on the cultures of western Europe, the Islamic World, and the Slavs in eastern Europe. Fortunately for my sanity, the book was divided into three different sections, but all the events happened during the same timeframe. I found it very intriguing and gained a new perspective on western European history in particular. The book did describe the Byzantine influence on art and architecture, particularly in Italy, and was crying out for pictures, but unfortunately none were included. I'd advise reading this with Google images on hand. I would also recommend reading this in conjunction with Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin, which gives an overview of the linguistic divide between Byzantium and Rome and also describes the attitude the Roman Catholic church had toward classical pagan knowledge, which contrasts sharply with that of the Byzantine Eastern Orthodox monks.

My more extensive thoughts can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...- messages 37 and 38.

10/24

[Heather]

updated message 76

10/12 completed

[Jennifer]

Update to message 170.

Just finished The Everglades: River of Grass. I was somewhat disappointed, but I should say right now that this was very-well written and parts – especially in the first chapter – were quite poetic. But I had been hoping for a book about the ecology of the Everglades and the movement to preserve it, and instead of natural history this focused almost exclusively on human history, although the opening chapter did describe the nature and several chapters near the end did discuss some of the conservation issues. The book included some vividly gory accounts of people dying in bloody massacres (and they weren’t even quotes from primary sources), and I found them sickening enough that I almost put this on my did-not-finish shelf. A few parts seemed to drag for me as well, but I'm glad I stuck with it. In fairness I cannot say this was a bad book, only that it was not for me.

My more extensive thoughts can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... - message 41

[Caraina]

updated message 57
completed 8/12

[Overbooked ✎]

16. Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words

Progress: 16/18

[Fatma]

I’ll go for 10 books, I’ll add them as I go.

[Heather]

updated message 76

11/12 completed

[Chrissy]

Just updated post 19 with book number 5, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, ★★★★★

[Caraina]

updated message 57
completed 9/12

[Betsy]

Updated message 98
COMPLETED 4/20

[Kadijah Michelle]

It's hard to believe, but the end of March is already here, and it's time for statistics.

We have 74 participants and have read 192 books.

Great job everyone!

[Hafsa | حفصہ]

I'd like to join with the goal of reading 10 non-fiction books. (very ambitious for someone who doesn't read much non-fiction.)

7/10

1. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.


(Feminism, Essays)

2. Blankets by Craig Thompson.


(Graphic Novel, Memoir)

3. Algeria Is Beautiful Like America by Olivia Burton and Mahi Grand.


(Graphic Novel, Memoir)

4. The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan.


(Essays, Short Stories - thus, part non-fiction)

5. Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, edited by Meghan Daum.


(Essay Anthology)

6. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa.


(Essays, Poetry, Bi-lingual, Chicana literature)

7. The Wizard Of Oz (BFI Film Classics) by Salman Rushdie.


(Essay)

[Caraina]

updated message 57
completed 10/12

[Candiss]

I updated message #15.

Read: 1/4

[Patricia]

Hi,
I'd like to join this challenge for 6 books.
Patricia
(6 April)

1. Letter to a Christian Nation
2. Gift from the Sea
3. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
4. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
5. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
6. Becoming

Completed on 20 December

[Doris]

Updating message #91: 3 more finished for a total of 13 out of 24.
#11. Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco
#12. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
13. Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

[Lauren]

I just finished!!! 20/20. Going to just keep reading though. So glad I am getting so much nonfiction in. (updated msg. 29)

[Jennifer]

Update to message 172.

Recently finished Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor.

This book tells the story of Marie Tharpe, an extraordinary oceanographer who was decades ahead of her time and the first scientist to map the seafloor. During her work with Bruce Heezen, she discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which became one of the most crucial pieces of evidence for the theory of continental drift. It was somewhat conjectural at times, but I still enjoyed it overall and learned more about oceanography in general as well.

My more extensive thoughts can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... - messages 45 and 46

12/24

[Kadijah Michelle]

Posted an update!

Great job everyone.

[Candiss]

I updated message #15.

Read: 2/4

[Jenn]

Updated message 5

[Heather]

update to message 76

12/12 complete

[Jane]

Updated message 33.

7/10 books done!

1. Why We Write About Ourselves: Twenty Memoirists on Why They Expose Themselves (and Others) in the Name of Literature by Meredith Maran
2. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
3. What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
4. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
5. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
6. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk
7. Sara & Gerald: Villa America and After by Honoria Murphy Donnelly

[Berit]

Edited post #9.
So far 9/15.

[Chrissy]

Updated post 19 with my 7th:
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

[Betsy]

Updated message 98

Finished My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey and The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

Completed 6/20

[Rachelnyc]

Updated message 141. 9/24

[Berit]

Edited post #9.
So far 10/15.

[Rina]

RECOMMENDED NONFICTION CHALLENGE
Duration January 1 to December 31, 2018

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Progress: 10/10 (Completed)

[Lindsay]

Update msg 8

3/4

[Overbooked ✎]

17. All Over But the Shoutin'

progress: 17/18

[Gillis]

I'ld like to join... I 'll go for 5

3/5 done:

Tranen van vernedering: an autobiography
Mindfulness: in de maalstroom van je leven
Een korte geschiedenis van de tijd