Nonfiction November 2018--Week 1!

This event is being cohosted by the following five bloggers: 

Sarah of Sarah's Book Shelves

Katie of Doing Dewey

Kim of Sophisticated Dorkiness

Rennie of What's Nonfiction

Julz of JulzReads

#NonFicNov

Week 1 (October 29-November 2): Your Year in Nonfiction 

(Kim of Sophisticated Dorkiness)

Take a look back at your year of nonfiction and reflect on the following questions:

What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year?

Do you have a particular topic you've been attracted to more this year?

What nonfiction book have you recommended the most?

What is one topic or type of nonfiction you haven't read enough of yet?

What are you hoping to get out of participating in Nonfiction November?

I analyzed my recent nonfiction reads on my Nonfiction Page October 2018 Update!

Those nonfiction books I've read that I highly recommend: 
Gloria Steinem's My Life on the Road, 
Kate Moore's The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, 
Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries: A Memoir, 
Roxane Gay's Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,  
Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk, 
Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea, 
Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, 
Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 

and one of the best books I have ever read...
Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat: 
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 

There is no way I could ever select just one favorite read. 
Actually, for varied reasons, all nine recommendations listed above qualify!

I love reading science books, particularly about nature and animals, 
but it appears I make little time for those...

However, my main goal for this November is to read two of the nonfiction books I already own and had already committed to reading in prior events!

How about you? 
Have you read any of these favorite nonfiction books?

What is your favorite over the past year that you've read?

Happy reading!
--Lynn

December Library Checkout

December 2015

A great monthly check-in about Library reading hosted by Shannon of River City Reading!

This month has been another great one for good reads! Though I am not as caught up as I had wished prior to the start of the Little House Read-Along I am cohosting with Bex of An Armchair by the Sea. (But that's okay!) There are currently 11 other readers registered to join us in this event!! YAY!! (Twitter #littlehouseRAL)

Books Read: 

(**Reviews/blog posts can be viewed by clicking on the title. If I have not yet completed a blog post, it will link to my Goodreads review.)

I completed reading these as preparation for the Little House Series Read-Along, cohosted by myself and Bex of An Armchair By The Sea, beginning now! :) I have NEVER read a Wilder book and after participating in Reeder Reads' Green Gables Read-Along last year, I decided reading one of the Wilder books per month would be a great way to read them all during 2016! Then both Bex and I posted on the Classics Club site that we planned to host the same read-along, and a cohosting team was born! Bex's introductory post is here and mine is here! Be sure to register using the link on either of these posts! It is going to be fun! There are already 13 of us committed to this monthly project! And, please, if you wish to only follow along with the reviews/comments, that is also fine. Or if you only wish to read of few of these books and participate for only those months, that is also fine! Whatever works for you, works for us! :) The introductory January posting is here and you can link to your review and/or comment there once you've read the first book, Little House in the Big Woods.

1) West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder to Almanzo Wilder, San Francisco 1915 by Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Roger Lea MacBride.

2) On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

3) A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert. A very revealing historical fiction account of Rose Wilder Lane's life and her rather strained relationship with her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder. (Albert is one of my favorite writers!)

Currently Reading: 
Not currently reading any library books. (I keep reminding myself about the #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks challenge!) 

Checked Out, TBR:
Quite an eclectic group, eh? 

1) First Degree by David Rosenfelt
This is the second in his Andy Carpenter series. While I'm anxious to get to it, I am also anxious to read the first installment of the Little House series, Little House in the Big Woods, and am anxious to read further in the Maisie Dobbs series!

2) H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald.
I have read so many bloggers' reviews, all raving about this book, and I couldn't resist and placed it on hold and it has arrived! 

3) Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
I am rather curious. The premise of this book is centered on a kissing contest. He'll need to be a really good author for me to find this engaging... We shall see! :)

Returned Unread:

None. One huge perk to serving on the Board of Trustees is that I never accumulate or owe fines! So I can keep books as long as no one else places a hold on them, with no penalty. :) However, in all fairness I have only taken advantage of this a few times over the past few years! :)

On Hold: 
I currently have none on hold. Though I know that will change with my resumption of daily commuting back and forth to work as of this coming Monday! I will need an audiobook or two, at the very least! 

What have you read from your library lately?

Especially for any young readers, I can highly recommend 

the Vet Volunteers series by Laurie Halse Anderson! 

I read the fifth installment and loved it.