#NonFicNov week 1 Top 10 books

• Week 1: (Oct 29 to Nov 30)
  
• Hosted by:
• Hashtag: #NonficNov

1. Katie @ Doing Dewey)
2. Kim of Sophisticated Dorkiness
3. Rennie of What’s Nonfiction
4. Julz of JulzReads
5. Sarah of Sarah’s Bookshelves

 

Week 1: (Oct. 29 to Nov. 2)

1. What was your favorite nonfiction read of the year?
2. Do you have a particular topic you’ve been attracted to more this year?
3. What nonfiction book have you recommended the most?

 

• I read 60 non-fiction books in 2018.  Here is my LIST.
• My TOP 11  non-fiction 2018 are:

1. The Trauma Cleaner – S. Krasnostein  – memoir  Victorian Premier’s Literary Award  2018
2. Darkness Visible – W. Styron – memoir
3. An Ordinary Day – Leigh Sales – memoir
4. Brit(ish) – A. Hirsch –  memoir
5. Atomic Thunder – E. Tynan – Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2017  Australian History
6. Feeling the Heat – J. Chandler – climate –  Walkely Award 2017 best Freelance journalist
7. James Wright: A Life in Poetry – J. Blunk – biography
8. Seamus Heaney – H. Vendler – biography
9. Blood in the Water – H. Thompson – history –  Pulitzer Prize for History 2017
10. Deep South – P. Theroux –  travel – Shortlist Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2017
11. Christ Stopped at Eboli – C. Levi – READ – memoir
    

 

• Memoir/biography  has captured my attention this year.
• These are books that stay with me months after reading them.
• Three of the four memoirs were written by women.
• Writers who have struggled identity, depression  and one’s mortality.

 

I choose 3 books that I have recommended the most:

 

The Trauma Cleaner – Sarah Krasnostein (memoir)

1. Who is Sandra/Peter?
2. She is a transgender, a survivor of a dysfunctional childhood, a husband, wife,
3. father, svelte star of many brothels and a savvy businesswoman.
4. Sandra’s personal life is a rollercoaster ride of emotion.
5. Hold on to your hat!
6. But the chapters alternated with her work as trauma cleaner
7. …..showing a compassion that just took my breath away.

 

An Ordinary Day – Leigh Sales (memoir)

1. If you have a pulse…and I know you do
2. this book will grab you and not let go.
3. Absolutely inspiring!
4. Sometimes I have to let a book sink in for a few days
5. ….and this was one of them.
6. Leigh Sales managed to make me realize that if you look around your
7. ‘ordinary days‘…in hindsight they are nothing but miraculous.
8. Life can change in an instant.

 

James Wright: A Life in Poetry – J. Blunk (biography)

1. You know how once in a while you run into a book that’s
2. so good you don’t want it to end,
3. so you draw read it very slowly?
4. For me, this is one of those books.
5. I just had a few pages more to read
6. ….but stopped and….went to bed.
7. I just did not want Jimmy to leave me that last night.
8. James Wright is one of 20th C best poets
9. …won 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
10. …and I never heard of him.
11. He did not walk around, observing the world and
12. coining apt analogies for what appears most striking.
13. He suffered to express is emotions.
14. His story is amazing.