“How did you go bankrupt?”
“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Monday musings on Australian literature: Nonfiction November
Every November for a few years now, a group of bloggers have coordinated a focus on nonfiction for bloggers in November. They set up a plan of topics, one per week, with a different blogger being responsible for each week, as follows: Leann (Week 1) (Shelf Aware), Julie (Week 2) (Julz Reads), Rennie (Week 3) (What’s Nonfiction), and Katie (week 4) (Doing Dewey).
This year’s schedule was:
- Week 1: Your Year in nonfiction, involves looking at our nonfiction reading this year, thinking about our favourites or topics that have particularly interest us or books we’ve most recommended.
- Week 2: Book pairing, involves pairing a nonfiction book with a fiction title (on whatever criteria you like).
- Week 3: Be the expert/Ask the expert/Become the expert, involves, as it sounds, reflecting our own expertise, asking others to help with books about something we’d like to know, or choosing our own reading plan for something we’d like to learn.
- Week 4: New to my TBR, involves – well, it’s obvious isn’t it, except the idea is that they’re books that participating bloggers have posted about.
Now, I have taken part in this week – in a sporadic sort of way – before, writing two combination posts in the Novembers of the last three years. I planned to do the same this year, but haven’t! So, instead, I’ve decided to do one post for my last Monday Musings of the month, which means of course that I’ve added an extra criterion: all the nonfiction I talk about has to be Australian. Here goes.
Your year in nonfiction
World’s oldest known, banded wild bird returns to nest at Midway Atoll Star Advertiser
One country, one picture, one year Reuters. Only looked a few, but good choices.
Evolved to run – but not to exercise Irish Times
The Great Barrier Reef Is Now Officially in ‘Critical’ Condition Vice
The Wings of Insects Might Have Evolved From The Legs of Crustaceans ScienceAlert
