Tag: nonfiction

• Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Nonfiction Books to Sink Your Teeth Into

  March 1, 2016

  Top Ten Tuesday

  1960s, Author biography, dessert, Downton Abbey, Holocaust, Joan Didion, Kitchen, Marie Antoinette, memoir, nonfiction, Top Ten Tuesday, WWII books

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature brought to you by the awesome ladies at The Broke and the Bookish. I think it’s fairly easy to find good fiction books. There are so many out there, covering every topic and genre, and there are more all the time. But sometimes you want a book based on…

• A Year Reading Women Authors

  February 9, 2016

  Reading Challenge

  books, Female Authors, female writers, fiction, nonfiction, novels, Poetry, Reading, women authors, women writers

  Above: The first book of my year reading only women authors. As I said at the beginning of my challenge, I tend to read women writers in equal measure to male writers. Using Goodreads to measure, I found that I tended to be split down the middle with my reading the three years previous to…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge: #68-75 The End

  January 14, 2016

  Reading Challenge

  Annie Proulx, audio books, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Kostova, fiction, From Whitechapel, Hilary Mantel, k and Angela Carter, Kelly Link, kindle, Magic For Beginners, Melanie Clegg, nonfiction, Poetry, short stories, Sylvia Plath, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, The Shipping News, The Swan Thieves, We Two: Victoria and Albert, Wives and Daughters

    At first I was going to post the rest of the reading challenge one book at a time, like I did for all the rest of the books, but then I decided that would take weeks to get them all out there, and meanwhile I wouldn’t be able to start posting this year’s books.…

• Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I Wouldn’t Mind Finding Under My Tree

  December 22, 2015

  Poetry

  books for Christmas, fiction, graphic novel, holiday wish list, JRR Tolkien, literary wish list, Lord of the Rings, memoir, nonfiction, Oscar Wilde, Poetry, Princess Diaries, Top Ten Tuesday, Walt Whitman

  Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature  brought to you by the Broke and the Bookish. I think my mom was heartbroken when I asked her if Santa was real in the second grade. She loved the magic of it. She told me that while Santa and fairies might not be real, the magic of…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #65: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

  December 19, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  HeLa, medical ethics, medical history, nonfiction, reading challenge, Rebecca Skloot, science ethics, science history, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, women writers

  You may have noticed this book popped up on my favorites list for Top Ten Tuesday. There were actually a number of books on that list that I haven’t done a post about yet, but they will all be coming I promise. This book came out about five years ago, but it’s lost none of…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #54: Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle

  October 29, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  biography, Constance, Franny Moyle, literature, Mrs. Oscar Wilde, nonfiction, Oscar Wilde, reading challenge, women writers, women’s rights

  I was really eager to read the story of a woman whose accomplishments and failures were totally overshadowed by those of her husband. While that was not necessarily unusual for women of the period, it seems a bit strange that we should do so for Constance Wilde if only because of the scrutiny her husband…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #51: The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore

  October 26, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  comics, feminism, History, Jill Lepore, nonfiction, reading challenge, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, women writers, women’s rights, Wonder Woman

  So the early Wonder Woman? Yeah, she was kind of a badass. And she is descended from some of the most influential suffragettes and women’s rights leaders of the early twentieth century, owing debts to Margaret Sanger and Emmeline Pankhurst. Her creator also invented the lie detector (though the patented invention–the polygraph–would be created by…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #48: A Scented Palace by Elisabeth de Feydeau

  October 14, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  A Scented Palace, biography, Elisabeth de Feydeau, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, nonfiction, perfume, reading challenge, women writers

  The full title of this work on non-fiction is A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette’s Perfumer, which really helps to explain the whole premise of the biography. Jean-Louis Fargeon was a man with Republican leanings and an aristocratic clientele, and his story gives insight into how the country was split by the French Revolution.…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #45: Joan of Arc by Helen Castor

  October 5, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  English history, European history, French history, Helen Castor, Joan of Arc, nonfiction, reading challenge, women writers

  I do not advise trying to read this book early in the morning before you’re fully awake because if you’re anything like me (i.e. you don’t speak French) the sheer amount of French names/places in this book will make your head spin. However, once you’re fully awake, if you’re interested in the history of this…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #38: Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

  September 9, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  History, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, nonfiction, princesses, Princesses Behaving Badly, reading challenge, women writers

  I listened to this book on a road trip with my grandparents. Nana and Papa came to visit us in Boise and then I drove back with them to spend more time with family and a girlfriend who flew in from out of town. The book was everything you could want from a trip read–it…