November is the month for #ALLTHEREADING and Nonfiction November is back with a full schedule of topics to focus our nonfiction reading.
- Week 1 (Oct. 27 to Nov. 2) Your Year in Nonfiction hosted by Heather at Based on a True Story
- Week 2 (Nov. 3 to 9) Choosing Nonfiction hosted by Frances at Volatile Rune
- Week 3 (Nov. 10 to 16) Book Pairings hosted by Liz at Adventures in Reading, Running and Working from Home
- Week 4 (Nov. 17 to 23) Diverse Perspectives hosted by Rebekah at She Seeks Nonfiction
- Week 5 (Nov. 24 to 30) New to my TBR hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz
My nonfiction reading is generally dominated by memoir but I manage to pepper it with other books, usually to do with water 🙂
My only ‘plan’ for this year is for week two, ‘Choosing Nonfiction’. I’m aiming to tick a couple of work-related grief texts that I’ve had on my shelf for ages, notably:
- The Grieving Brain by Mary Frances O’Connor
- Personal Grief Rituals by Paul M. Martin
- The Good Death Through Time by Caitlin Mahar
- Finding Meaning by David Kessler
- It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok by Megan Devine
- The AfterGrief by Hope Edelman
- The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos
- Death Glitch by Tamara Kneese
- The Future Loves You by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
So I’ll be a ball of fun to be around in November!
But regardless of the topic, I somehow manage to finish Nonfiction November with a bunch of books added to the TBR stack.
I’m just back from holiday and I’m reading How to Winter in the hope it might help me over the dread that begins to creep in round about now.
I hadn’t heard of How to Winter but just looked it up – interesting! Have you read Wintering by Katherine May? Similar theme but I’m guessing a little more loosely applied to the seasons. Day light saving started here last night and today it was a stunning 28 degrees so I feel like I’m in summer mode (hooray!).
She mentions Wintering which I’ve also been meaning to read. I’ll be reviewing it in a few weeks. Now I have to try not too be to envious of you. Here’s to a warm sunny summer and a cozy winter!
I did add a bunch of nonfiction to my reading list last year, but I noticed that although I have read some of them, the ones I called out in that topic were not ones I read. I tried to get some of them but had some difficulties (possibly no free shipping from Amazon), and I have a few in my pile that I haven’t gotten to yet. I’ll get to them sometime, though, and by then will probably have added a bunch more from this year’s Nonfiction November.
Memoir and Water, love it Kate. I’ll be taking part to some degree as usual.
Love it! I always manage to read something for Nonfiction November!
I’m not sure how much I can participate in Non-fiction November this year but I will let others know. And I have a list of all the non-fiction books I read this year, collected during the year for the event. I might publish that.
In any case. Enjoy.
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