Non-Fiction Five Challenge

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Another Challenge! This is the Non-Fiction Five Challenge, starting on Friday 1 May. For more information on this challenge hosted by Trish at Trish’s Reading Nook click on the Rules below.

The Rules

1. Read 5 non-fiction books during the months of May – September, 2009

2. Read at least one non-fiction book that is different from your other choices (i.e.: 4 memoirs and 1 self-help)

You don’t have to post a list of the books you intend to read and can change them at any time, but I decided to do it anyway. So for the time being I’m planning to read:

  • After the Victorians by A N Wilson. I have started reading this one already and it will probably take me until September to finish it.
  • Russia by Jonathan Dimbleby
  • 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
  • Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson
  • The Snow Geese by William Fiennes

5 thoughts on “Non-Fiction Five Challenge”

  1. As you know, I’ve got Eden’s Outcasts, and look forward to reading it. As far as ‘big books’ go – I’ve quit a couple this year, both biographies. I thought there was way more detail than was necessary. I really didn’t need to know the minutiae that the writers included. It’s rather put me off biography for a while -at least the long ones. I just read the list of all Wilson has written!
    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/a-n-wilson/
    The Vicar of Sorrows is the one I’ve heard of. Have you read others by him? I’m interested in the ones about Iris M and Betjeman. Oh, there is so much to read in this world!

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  2. Nan, I’m looking forward to Eden’s Outcast too.

    I’ve read several by A N Wilson, novels and non-fiction, including Incline Our Hearts, The Healing Art, the biographies of Tolstoy, C S Lewis, and Iris Murdoch, Jesus: a Life, and God’s Funeral. I have Paul:the Mind of the Apostle but haven’t read it. I’d like to read the Betjeman biography. I had a look at My Mind is Legion in a bookshop and thought it didn’t look my sort of book, but generally I like his books.

    I agree about too much detail in biographies (and other non-fiction too) – sometimes it’s just too much!

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