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Nonfiction is my preference too. It sends me off in unusual directions to research more on a subject, which in turn sends me off doing more of the same. Currently finishing "Pablo Neruda: Memoirs", great read. I like military history and really appreciated Atkinsons "Army at Dawn" since I am naive about the N African campaign and how the US really got started into the War. Started 2009 being snowed-in so read Gladwell's BLINK and liked it so much read it two more times consecutive, then read The Lakota Way by Joseph Marshall. excellent.
After a bad divorce on top of a bad marraige (go figure), my psychiatrist said my therapy for the rest of my life is to take a break from biographies/nonfiction and read fantasy books. So I try to read one or two a year. It makes me appreciate nonfiction all the more and I never remarried...so his therapy worked (?). LOL.
- May 20th, 2009, 07:38 pm
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I only read non fiction. I have read the classics in literature. But I always come back to non-fiction. I read mostly history. I am reading some books on Byzantium. I get a thought on a historical topic and read it to the nth degree. So now my friends are ready for me to find another topic. So he brought me a book about Charlemagne. Now let me see how many books I can find for him. I am open to new ideas especially historical eras
- May 21st, 2009, 12:35 am
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I think I posted wrong. am not sure how these work. So I posted about Charlemagne somewhere. I am not sure. I only read non fiction. Mostly history also
- May 21st, 2009, 12:40 am
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Although my book selection currently is fiction, I do and have in the past read quite alot of non-fiction. By the time I was 12 yr old I had read the biographies on all of our Presidents, statesmen, inventors and about all of the wars the US had been involvved in. I also finished by this time books on all the world's different wars, conquerors and inventors.
- May 21st, 2009, 09:42 am
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I prefer non-fiction. The most recent one I read was, Three Cups of Tea, by Mortensen, about the young mountain climber, who had an unsuccessful climb of K-2, and discovered an area of the Himalayas between Afghanistan and Pakistan, (Taliban areas), and set out to build schools for the children, especially the girls. It is a fascinating story, of a person, who is changing a whole area of the world for the better, one step at a time. I love it because it encourages me that we all have the potential to do some amazing things if we are willing to risk.
- May 23rd, 2009, 11:33 pm
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Granted, I am still at univeristy and non-fiction intense reading is sort of a requirement, but I am one of the few who take immense pleasure in it. I do try to balance my fiction and non fiction though. What ends up happening - 8 months out of the year I read non-fiction like its going out of style and for the majority of the 4 months of break I devour 30 or so historical fiction romance novels.

I study Canadian history and Aboriginal issues, so somewhat naturally, these are the topics that pique my non-fiction interest.

I read A Long and Terrible Shadow by Thomas Berger last year, 3 times, it was a little bit life altering for me and I loved every minute of it.
I also read Tammarnit by Tester and Kulchyski, about social history and the Inuit in Canada's north. Momumentally important book. It was fabulous.
On a factually driven fiction note, that book is leading me into People of the Deer by Farley Mowat, gonna read that one this summer. I expect it to be fabulous.
I read a book by Thompson Highway that was like that as well. Fact meets story telling. Kiss of the Fur Queen I believe was the title. It's aboriginal issues and traditional lore that gets wrapped up like a story rather than like a book/text book. Probably more like biography than anything else. Sometimes the traditional stuff boggles the mind, but you just have to let go and roll with it. Basil Johnston is like that too. His book Crazy Dave is a goody.

I like my non-fiction as much as I like my fiction, my library grows pretty equally in both deparments.
- June 16th, 2009, 11:23 am
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Fire on the Lake is a really good book about Vietnam by a reporter that spent some time there and Naked in Baghdad is really good, again by a reporter that was there. Will in the World is a book I enjoyed about the times and authors that inspired William Shakespeare. Let's see...what else have I read recently...oh yeah! Fiction and college textbooks! That's all I got right now, I'll check in later if I read anything else.
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Mausby Art Spiegelman.

It's written in a comic book form about the author's father's time during the Holocaust. It also contains the friction between the author and his father because their distinctly separate experiences.

It's very interesting. The Jewish people are drawn as mice (hence the title) and the nazi's are cats. There are other groups of people represented too.

The book won the Pulitzer in 1986 (I think it was).

Good book.
- June 27th, 2009, 08:54 pm
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It sounds like a good book Derr and personally I've been watching this post and I'm just happy you posted! Thank You! Oh and by the way another good non-fiction book is When Rabbit Howls, it's about a woman with multiple personalities.
- June 29th, 2009, 01:27 pm
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Thanks for the recommendation, KC! (I love those!)

And Maus was a relatively quick read I lent it to a self described non-reader and she read it in a few hours!

I love spreading the "word" (hahaha...get it )
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