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Friday, November 29, 2019

Friday Fives - Five Nonfiction November Reads

I'm taking a bit of a break from my usual Friday Linkups to try something a little different.  Michelle over at Because Reading is Better Than Real Life   used to do a Five on Fridays that I always enjoyed and I've seen a few other variations on the theme.  As well I'm in a list making kind of mood so I thought I'd give start making random five lists.  Sometimes they'll be bookish other weeks not so much.  I had really meant to read more nonfiction this year - especially for nonfiction November.  However, with all the chaos 2019 brought my reading took a significant hit and nonfiction reading dropped to just about nonexistent.  But if I had been reading nonfiction this month here are 5 I would have picked up.


1.  The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove by Cathy Erway- I've kind of lost my love of cooking in the last couple of years and spending the past few weeks in hotel rooms hasn't exactly helped.  I've got a few more weeks in hotel rooms and I think this would be the perfect book to pick up at the beginning of 2020 to get my cooking back on track.


2. Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor by Rosina Harrison - I watched a documentary not long ago that mentioned Lady Astor and she sounded absolutely fascinating so I'd love to learn more about her and this sounds interesting.


3.  Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies by Alastair Bonnett - I know nothing about this book or this author but this sounds fun.


4.  Weird Things Customers Say by Jen Campbell - I really enjoyed another book by her so it just makes sense to pick this one up. 


5.  Thunderstruck by Erik Larson - I loved Dead Wake and have really been wanting to read more by him.  This involves Crippen who I know just a little bit about so a book involving him sounds like a good read!
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7 comments:

  1. chucklesthescotNovember 29, 2019 at 3:48 AM

    My NonFiction November was a big success! I was just in the mood for the genre so that worked out well!

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  2. sjhigbeeNovember 29, 2019 at 12:22 PM

    I love the sound of the first two books - I'm another one who has fallen out of love with cooking, so perhaps this one is for me, too... Thank you for sharing, Katherine:)

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  3. Terra November 29, 2019 at 1:19 PM

    Nice eclectic list, the bookshop one is intriguing. I know as a librarian, sometimes people would describe a book to me by saying "it is a big green book" when they couldn't recall the title or author. That makes a librarian smile.

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  4. GregNovember 29, 2019 at 6:19 PM

    The Art of Eating In looks pretty good. We eat out a lot less than we used to, for some reason, so that would probably be a good one to get!

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  5. SusanNovember 30, 2019 at 9:58 AM

    I need to read that first book! We've spent WAAAYYY too much on eating out this year, mostly because I just haven't wanted to cook. I need to get back into it so we can eat healthier and save money. Thanks for the heads-up!

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  6. La La in the LibraryDecember 1, 2019 at 12:15 AM

    Tne Weird Things Customers Say In Bookstores author used to have a Tumblr account about that, but she deleted it. I guess because no one would buy the book if the content can be read online for free. Ha ha. 😛

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  7. Literary FelineDecember 4, 2019 at 2:22 PM

    Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops sounds like a fun one!

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