Non-Fiction Friday is a link-up where you can find all of the awesome non-fiction happenings of the week. Be sure to link-up your non-fiction posts too!
Non-Fiction News and Resources
- I’m always surprised by how few non-fiction best-sellers I’ve read! How many of this week’s best-sellers have you read? (I’ve read 3)
- I’m excited to see some non-fiction books turned into movies this year! Lone Survivor this month and Monuments Men next month.
- New Non-fiction this week:
- The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI
- Out of the Woods: A Memoir of Way-Finding
- Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land
- We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain
- The Physics of War: From Arrows to Atoms
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The Book of the Sword: A History of Daggers, Sabers, and Scimitars
I’ve only read 2 (Quiet and Outliers) of this week’s non-fiction bestsellers, but many of the others are on my TBR list. I’m still trying to catch up on the bestsellers from the last few years!
Out of the Woods, Lost Antarctica, and We Are Our Brains sound interesting! (And THIS is why I’m constantly playing catch-up with my books…)
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I’m starting to resign myself to always playing catch-up on books I want to read too. I’m often amazed by how few of the non-fiction best-sellers I’ve read and have come across a lot of best of 2013 lists where I’ve not read many of the books either. And yet, if I go back and try to read the 2013 books next year, I’ll only read less of those from 2014! Book blogger problems
But I suppose it’s far better than running out of books instead, so I’ll take it.
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I read a decent amount of non-fiction in 2013, but it’d be nice to up those numbers in 2014. I always enjoy it SO much and nf is a great slump buster for me.
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I think reading non-fiction helps me avoid slumps too. By swapping back and forth between fiction and non-fiction, I’m not likely to get burnt out on either
I’m really excited about Monuments Men. I haven’t read the book, but I saw a trailer last night and it looks really fun. I’m sort of hoping it’s a bit like Oceans 11, except with some historical drama.
I’ve read four of the nonfiction bestsellers — pretty good!
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If it turns out to be as fun as Oceans 11, I’ll be thrilled. And I agree, it has that potential. I love that it’s a non-fiction book being turned into a movie too!
Four is pretty good! I always feel like as a non-fiction blogger, I should have read more of the books that make the best-seller or recommended lists, because I’ve often read very few of them.
“We are our brains” is actually by a Dutch professor, so I read this one already like two years ago. I definitely recommend it to people who know nothing at all about our brains as everything is explained very clearly. I do think some things are thought of in a too easy way (if this formulation makes any sense) to make his point (that everything we are is in our brains), but it’s definitely a read that will make you think
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That makes complete sense. I’ve often noticed that books such as Malcolm Gladwell’s books which focus on one theme sometimes try too hard to make everything fit that theme. I suppose that’s one of the dangers of an approachable book on science.
Just found out about The Burglary this morning, I should have known that a book blog I follow had already linked to it! Very excited to read that one.
Haha, yep, I can think of a few book bloggers who I think we both follow who would also probably like this one. It looks so interesting!
I’m really glad to see you’re featuring non-fiction so frequently! I’m really looking forward to The Monuments Men, though I don’t think I’ll have a chance to read the book before the movie.
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Thanks Shannon
I really love reading non-fiction and am always trying to both find other non-fiction readers and inspire more people to become non-fiction readers. I’m really loving Monuments Men so far, so even if you don’t get to until after the movie is out, I suspect it’s worth picking up.