What are you currently reading in Nonfiction?

3 years ago by Knoll0114 to c/nonfiction

I just finished L'Âge des low-tech by Philippe Bihouix and am currently reading The Harlem Rennaisance by Cary D. Wintz which I picked up at a hostel.

Okokimup 2 points 3 years ago

Wings on the Water by Steve Maslowski. I love learning about the habits of birds, and the photos are freaking gorgeous.

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Knoll0114 1 point 3 years ago

Sounds awesome!

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dogzor 2 points 3 years ago

I just started Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut. It’s pretty amazing that the first chapter is about communities that were banning and burning his books in public schools. I really wish we could say we’ve come further in the last 50ish years.

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Knoll0114 2 points 3 years ago

I love Vonnegut. Have read Slaughterhouse-Five and God Bless You, Mr Rosewater before. Intend to get through all of his stuff eventually.

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Acetamide 2 points 3 years ago

I'm soon going on a holiday to the Ardennes forest in Belgium, so what better to pick up than 'Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge' by Antony Beevor? This should for sure make me see the various towns over there in a different light.

Before this, I read 'A Spy Among Friends' by Ben Macintyre, an incredible read about Kim Philby, a Russiandouble agent in MI6 during the Cold War. The amount of intrigue and real-life spying described in that book is incredible.

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UnmeltedByRain 1 point 3 years ago

Losing the Signal, which is about the Blackberry phone company. It's good, but not great.

My last book was The Good Nurse, about a nurse who was also a serial killer. That was friggin great.

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Knoll0114 2 points 3 years ago

The fall of Blackberry is interesting it's a shame that book didn't stand out. I saw The Good Nurse netflix movie and it was an insane story.

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Knoll0114 1 point 3 years ago

Ooh that's awesome! I love reading about things to do with my destination as well but I don't always time it properly. Belgium is really beautiful!

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DarthVi 1 point 3 years ago

Right now I am reading "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling and before this one I finished "On Writing and Worldbuilding vol 1" by Timothy Hickson, which was very interesting even though I'm not a writer.

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Knoll0114 1 point 3 years ago

Ooh the world building topic is interest

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