What about you? Do you read non-fiction?
BTW, there is a motive behind this question. Right now I'm working on a non-fiction book, with the working title, My Fear List. Here I am below trying to look scared and serious, in keeping with the book's topic. (g)
For more about My Fear List, and a very short blog post about Facing Up to Fears, come on over to
http://myfearlist.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-fear-list-facing-up-to-fears.html
For more about My Fear List, and a very short blog post about Facing Up to Fears, come on over to
http://myfearlist.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-fear-list-facing-up-to-fears.html
MORGAN--the last non-fiction I read, or parts of anyway, was an 800 page book title GERMS, GUNS, AND STEEL:THE FATES OF SOCIETIES. Now I ask you--who could read a book like that? Actually, it was fascinating, when I figured out how to make a kind of outline to ferret out his main points. I really, really wanted to learn what made societies fail--and they all do eventually. Want to know why? Read the book. You might be surprised. Celia
ReplyDeleteFor many years all I read was non-fiction. The Civil War was always interesting to me, plus I was adding to my Laura Ingalls Wilder library, so I didn't read fiction at all.
ReplyDeleteI still read a fair amount of non-fiction, though fiction books are more on my list these days with me promoting so many authors.
I enjoy reading motivational books and those on Christian living. I also enjoy politics, true crime, and my Civil War library is still growing.
Cheryl
Blogger ate my first comment!
ReplyDeleteMorgan,
I don't read nonfiction for pleasure, though there are lots of folks who do. My nonfiction reading consistes of writing texts/aids and special subject area reference books.
Maggie
Yes, Morgan, I love to read non-fiction. I love anything by Desmond Morris, the anthropologist, because he helps me to understand human nature, which I find endlessly fascinating. I read "Survival of the Sickest", to learn about how many of the ills we face these days, came about through evolution trying to solve a problem, that then created the current ones! And I love stuff by Mental Floss, history as fun. I'm reading "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar" now! Good stuff!
ReplyDeleteI read more non-fiction now, especially tho ones that help me stay positive.
ReplyDeleteMy Darcy Mutates…
I primarily read non-fiction although I occasionally pick up a novel while on a trip. Novels keep me awake better in airports than non-fiction does. But if there is a topic I'm really interested in, non-fiction is what I will turn to. I'm currently reading "The Richest Man Who Ever Lived" by Steven K. Scott. Generally speaking most of the non-fiction I read is either motivational or Christian oriented. And of course, our own book is non-fiction. :)
ReplyDeleteMorgan, for years I read exclusively non-fiction. I have branched out, but I still read lost of non-fiction. I love learning about things and places and people. Now it stirs ideas for my fictional writing.
ReplyDeleteI do like biographies of interesting people. I love European and U.S. history. And anything from Michio Kaku. So yes, I do read quit a bit of non-fiction.
ReplyDeleteStephen Tremp
It is good to mix it up,once in a while.
ReplyDeleteFirst, LOVE your "serious face."
ReplyDeleteSecond, I LOVE to read nonfiction, though I didn't used to. I especially like anything to do with history or nature and survival stories.
yes, but not on my Kindle. For non-fiction, I tend to highlight, underline and annotate. Harder to do on Kindle
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