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!
- this week, The Barnes and Noble blog has 4 Gripping Non-fiction Adventure books they’re recommending
- a teacher frustrated with the limited topics in his library suggests that spending money on non-fiction books is wasteful. Although I agree that every student should have computer access, I disagree that it should come at the expense of non-fiction book, which I think have value beyond serving as sources for class projects. Before you get too riled though, you might read this article where he clarifies that he’s not dismissing the importance of non-fiction
- At the other end of the spectrum, here’s a great article singing the praises of non-fiction
- Exciting books coming out this week include:
- Agatha Christie at Home
- Soft Soil, Black Grapes: The Birth of Italian Winemaking in California
- Shooting Stars: My Life as a Paparazza
- The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
- The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
You didn’t leave a little linky thing this week and I actually reviewed some NF! Oh, well, i’ll leave it here. THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING by Arun Kundnani http://wp.me/p2Y7aN-oP.
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Oh no! I’ve gone back an added one now. Thanks for letting me know!
Interesting links to posts about the value of non-fiction reading. My husband is a big non-fiction reader. I do read some non-fiction, but mostly it is the type I can read in pieces, and I do have trouble reading some really long ones. I am in the middle of reading Wartime Britain 1939-1945 (actually getting close to page 600 of 690). It has taken me a long time to get through it, although it is very interesting and I have learned a lot.
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Wow, your current read sounds like a heavy read! I recently tried a book on bombing during WWII and it ended up including far too many statistics and not enough story, so I actually ended up not finishing it. I’m glad you’re enjoying the book you’re reading more
The Invention of News sounds great, just added it to my list.
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I thought that one sounded good too! Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness’s blog for so long, but books about journalism always catch my attention
Great collection of links again, Katie! Bill Ferriter’s article is particularly thought-provoking; I have to admit that I never checked out any of the non-fiction books in my school library when I was a kid. I also never used any of the computers either, so… (But that might be because I had a bigger public library next to my school, and I’d always prefer going to that one for all my bookish/technology needs.) I think there are pros and cons to building non-fiction collections as well as getting more devices, and I agree with some of the comments on that post that serendipity and randomness in knowledge-searching is one of the major strengths/weaknesses for both methods. I’m on the fence about this though, haha.
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I was the same way, only ever using the public library. I wonder if that’s often the case for kids who are readers? Perhaps the discussion about school libraries isn’t that important. However, in my case, my parents took me to the library, so perhaps for students with less involved parents it would still matter. I think people make a good point about the serendipity of the library too! As I’ve been using the library less and reading ARC or just picking up specific books I know I want, I do miss the chance to discover something wonderful by chance.