Non-Fiction Friday

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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!

  • Today, two of the links I’d like to share are awesome links shared by Sophie at Paper Breathers in her weekly round-up. The first is a prize awarded to books with the strangest titles and they’re all non-fiction! And also all very strange. The second link is to Bill Gates’ bookshelf because he apparently has fantastic taste in non-fiction.
  • This isn’t completely non-fiction but it is completely wonderful! Sync Audiobooks gives away free audiobook downloads all summer. Non-fiction titles in this summer’s schedule include: While The World WatchedClaudette Colvins, and The Hiding Place
  • Exciting books coming out this week include:
    • Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits
    • The First World War in 100 Objects: The Story of the Great War Told Through the Objects that Shaped It
    • Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
    • The Sugar Season: A Year in the Life of Maple Syrup, and One Family’s Quest for the Sweetest Harvest

 

  

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  1. Andi @ Estella's Revenge

    I always look so forward to this weekly update! So much cool non-fiction coming up.
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  2. Sophie

    Yay, glad you’re sharing the links too! I haven’t heard what your favorite strange title from that list is, though. ;)

    I’m terrified of the word “quantum” and basically anything about quantum physics, quantum theory, etc., and quantum cats is no different. I’m intrigued, but I’ll probably never read that book. But The Sugar Season sounds really good (says the Canadian in me) and I’d love to have a name like Whynott. Great links again this week – thanks for sharing!
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    • Strangely, I’ve always found modern physics interesting. I actually just finished a book by Michio Kaku, whose great books on the topic are a big part of why I got interested. I think The Sugar Season looks like it could be a great microhistory. I also thought the list needed a happier, lighter book so it was perfect :)

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      • Sophie

        I think I just had bad experiences with physics in high school, so now I just can’t get myself to like it. I actually thought Michio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind was a neuroscience book, but I must’ve unconsciously ignored the mentions of physics in the synopsis!
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        • You’re right about The Future of the Mind! All of his earlier books are about physics though, except one about science of the future, and they’re the ones that got me interested :)

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