I can't believe it's already almost mid-November. Time is just racing for me and I really can't pinpoint where it has gone. I know the time change has really knocked me for a loop and it feels like some of my reading time has been stolen by that as I get so tired so much "earlier". Oh well. When I do get reading time available it still has been good so that is the main point, right? This year, I've really had to appreciate whatever time I get to do my favorite hobby, so though disappointing that I will not even be close to meeting my reading goals for the year, whatever time I have spent reading has been wonderful.
So for November I dug into my non-fiction piles for Non-fiction November. There was quite a few to choose from but I narrowed it down to these options and some fiction thrown in for good measure. Some are purchased, some from Little Free Libraries, some borrowed. My goal for the year was to read through my purchased books so I'll have to give those the priority. I'll never get to all of these but it's nice to have choices so I can mood read which was also one of my goals for the year.
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PURCHASED BOOKS
~ A Woman Who Trusts God by Debbie Alsdorf
~ The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs (dnf at pg 59 for constant use of the Lord's name in vain)
~ They Turned the World Upside Down by Charles Martin
~ This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
~ When We Were Young & Brave by Hazel Gaynor
BORROWED BOOKS
~ Jaqueline in Paris by Ann Mah (finished)
~ Between a Rock and a Grace Place by Carol Kent
LITTLE FREE LIBRARY
~ Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
RE-READ
~ Ribbon of Years by Robin Lee Hatcher
AUDIOBOOKS
~ Growing Up Amish by Ira Wagler (finished)
~ Anxious for Nothing by Max Lucado (finished)
~ Everybody Always by Bob Goff
spur of the moment add on: ~From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley/Riley Keough
(dnf at 32% confusing format and constant f-bombs, don't get the hype)
Do you do Non-Fiction November? What is your favorite non-fiction book?
4 comments:
I have no idea what Non Fiction November is. A blog meme?? I've read that Max Lucado book. it's excellent as are all his books. I own his book Grace. SOOOO GOOD I think i did a Debby Alsdorf study a long time ago. It wasn't that one though. The Hazel Gaynor book i saw at the library. Took it out didn't get to it and then they called me saying i had to return it due to it being requested by someone. I wasn't allowed to renew it and never did go back for it.
I'm reading a contemporary fiction kind of utopia type book plus finishing up a non fiction for my small group plus reading another non fiction about having a blessed home written by the owner of the Inn where my oldest and I stayed in August. All 3 are very good. I need to set aside more time to read in the evenings vs watching netflix.
I don't do non-fiction November, but I do usually have one or two nonfiction books I am working through. It would be hard to pick one favorite, but in the top tier would be Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin and Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis. And Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot.
I read When We Were Young & Brave by Hazel Gaynor not long ago. It was ok. I had read real accounts of people involved, so I wasn't always crazy about the imaginative incidents she came up with. But I think it did give a general idea what people went through then.
I don't often read non-fiction books but I'm actually reading an autobiography at the moment. It fits the prompt of non-fiction recommended by a friend on my 52 book challenge - Hubby read it before me and (sort of) recommended it to me. It's Spectacles by Sue Perkins who is a presenter and comedienne over here. I doubt that she's known in Canada.
I am reading a non fiction book right now, but I didn't know either that there is a NonFiction November thing. I dropped it out of my schedule but picked it up again today and read a bit of it.
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