Some of the things we might talk about at the Sunday Salon:
- What was your week like?
- Did you read any good books? Tell us about them.
- What other bookish things did you do?
- What else is going on in your life?
I have enjoyed the Thankfully Reading Weekend (November 26 to 29, 2020) each year for several years. But I completely forgot about it until I saw Bryan's post and Helen's post this morning.
Thankfully Reading Weekend? Here is more about it from the organizer:
"There are no rules to the weekend, we’re simply hoping to devote a good amount of time to reading, and perhaps meeting some of our reading challenges and goals for the year. We thought it’d be fun if we cheered each other on a bit. If you think you can join in, grab the button and add your sign up post to the link-up below. Join in for the weekend or for only a single day. No rules, no pressure!"
What shall I read? Here's the nonfiction I've accumulated from the library that I might read this weekend.
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.
It's time for another Classics Club Spin!
Agnes Gray
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
End of the Affair
Winter’s Tale, The
Girl of the Limberlost, The
Glimpses of the Moon, The
Heat of the Day, The
Main Street
Man and Superman
Mary Barton
Mystery of the Yellow Room
Of Human Bondage
Pursuit of Love, The
Razor's Edge, The
Selected Stories of O. Henry
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Travels in Asia and Africa
War and Peace
Washington Square
Week 4: (November 23-27) Katie’s rounding things up with New to My TBR: It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books! Which ones have made it onto your TBR? Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book!
Books-about-Books
Q's Legacy by Helene Hanff, recommended by The Writerly Reader.
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman, recommended by Lexlingua.
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick by George Cotlin, recommended by The Writerly Reader.
The Details: On Love, Death, and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight, recommended by Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books by Cathy Rentzenbrink, recommended by Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide, recommended by Books Are My Favourite and Best.
The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite by Laura Freeman, recommended by Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs, recommended by Books from the Stacks.
The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell, recommended by Plucked from the Stacks.
Food
Kitchen Yarns by Ann Hood, recommended by The Marmelade Gypsy
Let Them Eat Pancakes: One Man's Personal Revolution in the City of Light by Craig Carlson, recommended by Based on a True Story.
Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug by Augustine Sedgewick, recommended by Based on a True Story.
History
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames by Laura Maiklem, recommended by The Marmelade Gypsy
140 Days to Hiroshima: Inside the Final War Room Clashes and the Countdown to Armageddon by David Dean Bennett, recommended by Julz Reads.
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic, recommended by Julz Reads.
The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth, recommended by Julz Reads.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, recommended by Brona's Books.
The Golden Antilles: The Search for a Promised Land by Tim Severin, recommended by The Bookworm Chronicles.
The Romanovs by Virginia Cowles, recommended by The Bookworm Chronicles.
Memoir/Biography
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, recommended by Books Are My Favourite and Best and The Paperback Princess.
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay, recommended by Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder, recommended by Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Heroes and Jerks: The Best and Worst Who Ever Lived by Ed Daly, recommended by Bookfever.
Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss by Rachel Clarke, recommended by Book'd Out and Booker Talk.
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosoczka, recommended by Reading Ladies.
On the Horizon: World War II Reflections by Lois Lowry, recommended by Lady in Read Writes.
Only Happiness Here: In Search of Elizabeth Von Arnim by Gabrielle Carey, recommended by Brona's Books.
Did I Say That Out Loud? Midlife Indignities and How to Survive Them by Kristin van Ogtrop, recommended by Book'd Out.
Science/Nature
The Wild Remedy: How Nature Heals Us~A Diary by Emma Mitchell, recommended by The Marmelade Gypsy
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer L. Wright, recommended by Introverted Reader.
Can You Hear Me? A Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death by Jake Jones, recommended by Book'd Out.
Wintering: A Season With Geese by Stephen Rutt, recommended by Adventures in Reading, Running, and Working From Home.
Rewild Yourself by Simon Barnes, recommended by Adventures in Reading, Running, and Working From Home.
Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper, recommended by Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.
100 Things to Do in the Forest by Jennifer Davis, recommended by Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf, recommended by Brona's Books.
The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, recommended by Brona's Books.
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn, recommended by Booker Talk.
Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces that Make Us Who We Are by Bill Sullivan, recommended by What's Nonfiction.
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are by Libby Copeland, recommended by What's Nonfiction.
Superlative: The Biology of Extremes by Matthew LaPlante, recommended by What's Nonfiction.
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee, recommended by What's Nonfiction.
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer, recommended by What's Nonfiction.
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean, recommended by What's Nonfiction.
Ask an Ocean Explorer: Everything You Need to Know About Our Oceans in 25 Questions by Dr. Jon Copley, recommended by Book'd Out.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, recommended by Emerald City Reviews.
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong, recommended by Emerald City Reviews.
My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors by Lindsay McCrae, recommended by Book'd Out.
The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia and Sharpen Your Mind by Timothy R. Jenkins, recommended by Library of Clean Reads.
Big World Small Planet: Abundance Within Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockstrom and Mattias Klum, recommended by Unsolicited Feedback.
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie, recommended by Word by Word.
Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, recommended by Plucked from the Stacks.
Self-Help/Happiness/Health
Learned Hopefulness: The Power of Positivity to Overcome Depression by Dan Tomasulo, recommended by Shelf Aware.
The Power of Small: Making Tiny But Powerful Changes When Everything Feels Too Much by Drs. Aisling Leonard-Curtin and Trish Leonard-Curtin, recommended by Shelf Aware.
I’ve Seen the End of You: A Neurosurgeon’s Look at Faith, Doubt, and the Things We Think We Know by W. Lee Warren, MD, recommended by Lisa Notes.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen, recommended by Gofita's Pages.
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live by Nicholas A. Christakis, recommended by What's Nonfiction.
So You're a Little Sad, So What? Nice Things to Say to Yourself on Bad Days and Other Essays by Alicia Tobin, recommended by What's Nonfiction.
Here for It, Or How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas, recommended by What's Nonfiction and Doing Dewey.
Don't Overthink It by Anne Bogel, recommended by Reading Ladies.
Habits for Happiness: 10 Daily Steps for Living Your Happiest Life by Tim Sharp, recommended by Library of Clean Reads.
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery, recommended by Doing Dewey.
The Long Life by Helen Small, recommended by Lexlingua.
Hack Your Anxiety by Alicia H. Clark, recommended by Lexlingua.
Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Subject of Faith by Timothy Beal, recommended by Plucked from the Stacks.
The Mister Rogers Effect: 7 Secrets in Bringing Out the Best in Yourself and Others from America's Beloved Neighbor by Anita Knight, recommended by Reviews from the Stacks.
Social Issues
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum recommended by The Written, Spoken, and Visual Word.
We Demand The Right To Vote: The Journey to the 19th Amendment by Meneese Wall, recommended by Bookfever.
The Immoral Majority: Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power over Christian Values by Ben Howe, recommended by Based on a True Story.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander, recommended by NancyElin.
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell, recommended by Book'd Out.
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women of the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson, recommended by The Paperback Princess.
This is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias by Tanya Lloyd Kyi, recommended by Lady in Read Writes.
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by Peter Moskowitz, recommended by The Paperback Princess.
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty, recommended by Happiest When Reading.
Spirituality/Philosophy
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor, recommended by Lisa Notes.
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation by Latasha Morrison, recommended by Reading Ladies.
The Dream of Reason: The History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb, recommended by Gofita's Pages.
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Goldstein, recommended by Gofita's Pages.
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith, recommended by Gofita's Pages.
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Donnell, recommended by Annabookbel.
Disruptive Witness: Speaking Truth in a Distracted Age by Alan Noble, recommended by Reviews from the Stacks.
Travel
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar, recommended by Brona's Books.
Beauty and Chaos: Slices and Morsels of Tokyo Life by Michael Pronko, recommended by Booker Talk.
On the Narrow Road to the Deep North: Journey into a Lost Japan by Lesley Downer, highlighted by Words and Peace.
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki, recommended by Thoughts on Papyrus.
Hitching Rides with Buddha by Will Ferguson, recommended by Silver Button Books.
Neon Pilgrim by Lisa Dempster, recommended by Brona's Books.
Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey, recommended by Brona's Books
Words
Rebel Without a Clause: Losing the Linguistic Plot by Sue Butler, recommended by Book'd Out.
Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel, recommended by Book'd Out.
Miscellaneous
Bush School by Peter O'Brien, recommended by Book'd Out.
Levels of the Game by John McPhee, recommended by The Writerly Reader.
Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think About a 21st Century Economist by Kate Raworth, recommended by Unsolicited Feedback.
More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources and What Happens Next by Andrew McAfee, recommended by Unsolicited Feedback.