(This post is part of the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge. You can find links to other writers' answers over at Long and Short Reviews. I have not been following along as reliably this year as I did in previous years, but I'm still participating! Sort of.)
Prompt: Non-fiction books I've read lately
Confession time: unless you count online operating references, I haven't been reading any non-fiction books lately. So, instead, I'm going to mention a couple that were recommended to me:
- Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson.
- Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by Stephan Talty
- The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair
- A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present by Mark Forsyth
- A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
- Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden
- Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
What about you? What non-fiction have you been reading?
All of those sound interesting! 🙂
ReplyDeleteThey came highly recommended and they look incredible, I just need to find the time and energy...
DeletePrairie Fires was excellent!
ReplyDeleteThat's good to hear. I'm hoping I can get to it sometime soon.
DeleteI haven't read any of these, but based just on the titles, I'm most interested in A Short History of Drunkenness and A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears). The second one needed the subtitle because it made me giggle and want to find out more! I love non-fiction, but lately I've mostly been reading memoirs. I just started Elliott Page's autobiography (phew, not light reading, but super powerful) and Sandi Toksvig's memoir, Between the Stops. Both have lots of food for thought and range beyond specifically personal experiences.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping you get a chance to pick up some of these soon! Interested to know if those two live up to their titles!
Oh, those sound interesting too!
DeleteI have Prairie Fires on hold at the library right now. Growing up, the Little House books were my absolute favorites. Hope you can get around to some of them soon.
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Oh, fun. I'm told it's a fascinating look at the actual history.
DeleteOoohhh, I want "Prairie Fires"! Though that choice of name sounds ominous. I hope it's not another feeble bash at the family and the books.
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