Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon discussion

I've been reading almost exclusively fiction lately, though I have lots of enticing nonfiction books on my shelves waiting their turn. One of my books for the autumn colors prompt is also nonfiction, but for this one I chose a book a neighbor insisted I borrow.

Apollo: The Race To The Moon

For this prompt I'm reading:
Schoon genoeg


A book about extreme cleaning service. Mostly after people have been dead for a while before they were found.

I read The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943

A book about a resistance movement in Germany during WWII

Julie wrote: "I read The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943

A book about a resistance movement in Germany during WWII"

this is on my list - i read a book of free verse poetry about them a few years ago

Julie wrote: "I read The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943"

There is a pretty good movie about the Scholl siblings from the 80s. Don‘t know if it‘s available dubbed or with English subtitles though.

I am restarting The Greeks: A Global History by Roderick Beaton. I am reading it with a couple of others in another GR group. I bought a copy of Herodotus' The Histories. I choose to read a more popular history lite book instead.

So far this is what I've read : ) I'm sure there will be more to come!

Link: Prompt 1 Non-Fiction


Fall Pre-Readathon Reading Challenge

1. Non-Fiction
1. Check These Out: One Librarian's Catalog of the 200 Coolest, Best, and Most Important Books You'll Ever Read 8/22
2. 1001 Things Every Teen Should Know Before They Leave Home: 8/22
3.A Room of One's Own8/25
4. Hidden Figures 8/28
5. Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas 9/11
6. Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been 9/14
7. Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy 9/19
8. Brave Face 9/22
9. Night 9/28
10. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World loved this book. Penelope Bagieu is deserving on the list. Such inspiration. Great prompt. I'm not the biggest fan of non-fiction tho.

I have Cerebral Palsy, Hydrocephalus and severe visual impairments. I was hoping to find a really great memoir to start this challenge off and I found it! The Courage to Compete: Living with Cerebral Palsy and Following My Dreams

Also finished this:

The Discovery of Flight (13c Teen Gold

Some nonfiction books I have read since I last posted mid-August:
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
The United States of Mestizo by Ilan Stavans
Sonovagun Stew: A Folklore Miscellany by Francis Edward Abernethy
Magic Windows/Ventanas magicas by Carmen Lomas Garza

Thank you, Julie. I am doing a city study this year and have been looking for a German city book that spoke to to me. This may be it
The White Rose: Munich, 1942-1943 by Inge Scholl

I last updated in August. I completed 10 books for this prompt : )

All the books I'm reading are fiction , so I'm adding nonfiction to my page count with magazines : THE COTTAGE JOURNAL winter 2022 issue and COUNTRY LIVING current 2022 issue .

It took me til the evening after the readathon to finally read a nonfiction book. I really enjoyed Cory Doctorow's novelAttack Surface, and still had some checkouts left on my library hoopla, so I checked out and listened to Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, a great source and format for this book btw. I highly recommend both, but Information Doesn't Want to Be Free is a faster, shorter read and covers more real info than the novel.
Now I'm listening to the audiobook of another Docotrow nonfiction, Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future, but via youtube, because while the library source without a numerical checkout limit had this audiobook, that site always times out at least once during an audiobook and logs you out in the middle of the night for site updates, which makes listening late at night frustrating. (This is a relevant note considering the topics of these books.) A side effect of these books- I am feeling a lot more motivated to get back to updating my sadly-neglected blog now.