WEEK 1: What are you reading?

[Linda]

Rust by Eliese Collette Goldbach. So much in this memoir. Rape, mental illness, family love and respect. Failures and successes. 5 star for me,

[Kim]

I just started The Five. About Jack the Ripper.

[[nu]reads]

Happy Nonfiction November!
I wanna read The Hating Game, I want some fake dating stories

[Rebecca]

Just finished the middle grade biography Struttin' With Some Barbecue for the prompt Style. Also started The Dressmakers of Auschwitz.

[Taleisin (Tales of a Bookwyrm)]

I finished two books in the first week. Were any of them on my TBR ? Of course not. But I don't care because they were both fabulous.

[Sherri]

I finished Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,Scientific Knowledge,and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I used it for collection. My next book is Franchise:The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain. I’m using it for industry.

[Howard]

Yesterday, I started High Output Management I've heard of this book for years, and I've wanted to read it sometime. It finally became an audiobook. Its in the Business Category.

[Howard]

I finished High Output Management. I started Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool I guess this is in the Industry This woman bought a 676 pound bale of wool! This seems to be fun!

[Justin •••]

I have a number of nonfiction books partway done, but the only one I've finished so far is A Self Portrait by Kahlil Gibran, which is just a very slim collection of letters, almost all from Gibran to other people. I've also read a couple other books by him, including his best-known one The Prophet, and my main problem is that both Kahlil and his supporters genuinely did think of him as some kind of prophet or revolutionary thinker.

[Linda]

3rd book of Nonfiction November. From the ashes by Jesse Thistle. . A memoir about an indigenous man from Canada and how he went from extreme drug addiction to being PHD Candidate

[Rebecca]

For Collections I finished the essay collection Before You Loose Your Faith. I also read two nonfiction picture books Dear Mr. Dickens and a new book by Misty Copeland Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy. Both were quite good if anyone in the group knows or has young readers who may want to participate in Nonfiction November.

[Sherri]

For Industry I finished Franchise. The Golden Arches In Black America by Marcia Chatelain. Very good. My next read is Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life In The Shadow Of The Crown by Anne Glenconner. I will it for style.

[Howard]

I finished Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World and I'm almost finished 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing With Style and Power This great book was suggested by Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser

[Rebecca]

I finished She Kills Me which I guess could fall under industry because some of the women made quite a bit if money as poisoners for hire.

[Alfred]

I'm not following prompts. Just reading what I like. At present I'm reading How Death Becomes Life by Joshua Mezrich. Has anyone read it?

[Sherri]

I finished Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner. I used it for style. I finished the prompts. I have read 5 nonfiction so far. I do have one more I want to read before the end of the month but not for any prompts.

[Luke]

Sherri wrote: "I finished Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner. I used it for style. I finished the prompts. I have read 5 nonfiction so far. I do have one more I w..."

Oh wow! I remember when Lady Anne Glenconner was on Graham Norton promoting that book - so funny! Her life has had some sad moments too as I understand but a great raconteur.

[Amy]

Finished two more
Shearwater by Roger Morgan-Grenville awesome I learned so much. I think the style prompt fits the pelagic birds best.
and
Between two Kingdoms been wanting to read and saw others were reading it. So treatment would be the obvious one for that.

[Audrey]

I read: Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys for Industry.

I read: Changing to Thrive by James and Janice Prochaska for Treatment.

I am running out of days so I am not sure what I will try to fit in now.

[Howard]

I finished 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing: Proven Professional Techniques for Writing With Style and Power That is a great book for any budding writer. I'm on the last (11th) book in my list: Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 I'm 1/3 into the book and he is annoying me with the frequent use of the phrase "Software Program" because "Software" is a computer program!

[Ron]

I'm almost done with High School Tegan & Sara .

I grew up listening to Tegan and Sara having discovered their music on 'Grey's Anatomy'. As I've read their memoir I have loved every moment of it. The intensity as to what they went through is just...I can't even find the right words to describe it.

I give myself a rating system of 1-10. This book certainly deserves a 10 as it is that good for me.

It's without being biased too. I love coming-of-age stories, I've come to like reading memoirs/biographies/autobiographies, and this one just marks off every category. The themes in the book alone are enough to keep me engaged despite the trials they went through. The fact that Tegan & Sara are so open and transparent really shows a great amount of strength.

[Luke]

I have finished the prompts:

- Telling Tales by Alan Bennett for Collection
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain for Industry
- Frank by Jon Ronson for Style
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson for Treatment

Happy reading and see you in 2022 :)

[Howard]

I finished Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 this completes my 10 um mean 11 non-fiction books this month I started the 12th Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

[Dreamingblackbird]

I started reading Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche which is great so far.
I read Contentious Kwangju: The May 18 Uprising in Korea's Past and Present and Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves which were both interesting and just finished Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present which was excellent.
I'll read Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina and One Left next and will try to still finish them this month.

[Rebecca]

I finished the prompts!
Industry: A Short History of Spaghetti With Tomato Sauce
Treatment: Pity for the Guy
Collection: Before You Loose Your Faith
Style: Struttin With Some Barbecue
Other nonfiction books finished: Dear Mr. Dickens, She Kills Me, and Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy

[Linda]

I just finished Taste by Stanley Tucci. Breading this book made me very hungry as there were recipes every couple pages

[Audrey]

I started "As we have always done" by Leanne Betasmosake Simpson. It is written in a very academic way so it will probably take me quite some time to finish.

[Michelle]

About to start All's Well by Mona Awad.

[Michelle]

Oops, sorry guys. Meant to post that in another thread.

[Luke]

I finished reading Our House is on Fire by Greta Thunberg’s mother. Very badly written book but gives some great background information on Greta’s family life, mental health struggles & how she got a start as an activist.

[Helen]

I just finished Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants By Ann Hui. It's really good and it goes into the history of Chinese emigration to Canada as well as the stories of the families that run the various restaurant's.

[Amy]

Just finished Finding The Mother Tree:Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. I highly recommend this book if you love trees and want to understand better how the natural world is all connected, if you love conservation that actual heals not destroys. I picked this book for Industry prompt as Suzanne comes from a logging family and the work she first did before finding her passion and healing.

[Sherri]

I’m reading Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. It’s excellent. I will finish it tomorrow but I came close to reading six nonfiction books for November. I will see you all next November.

[Kim]

Thank you all for this wonderful, fun experience with Nonfiction November! I read Why Fish Don’t Exist and How to Catch a Mole and had a ball! I enjoyed seeing other people’s book choices. Kim

[Luke]

Thank you too Kim, it’s been great fun :)

[Ron]

This was truly a fun thing to do. I completed the 9 book goal I had for myself.

Nonfiction is my main genre so I'll continue it throughout and look forward to what I read next.

[Amy]

Thank you all. Hope to hear from you again next November.

[Nidhi]

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