Non-Fiction Five July Reviews
Post your July reviews in the comments below using the following format:
Your name and title of book: Trish - The Hot House
Your *URL: http://trishsbooks.blogspot.com/2009/03/hot-house-life-inside-leavenworth.html
I'll add them to this post so you have a list to click through (so *please leave a url I can copy and paste--if you want to leave a clickable link, that's fine in addition to the url).
JULY REVIEWS:
1. Becky - To Be a Slave
2. Jeane - It's Not About the Bike
3. Natasha - That Went Well, Adventures in Caring for My Sister
4. Alyce - Lumber Ghosts
5. Alyce - Long Walk to Freedom
6. J.T. Oldfield - The Third Jesus
7. Lynne - To Hell and Back
8. CB James - On Writing
9. Scrap Girl - Waiting on Manana
10. Corinne - Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
11. Corinne - Gift from the Sea
12. Corinne - An Edible History of Humanity
13. Alyce - Crazy for the Storm
14. Alyce - Alex & Me
15. Peta - The Burma Chronicles
16. Christina - Silent Spring
17. Jeane - Seaworthy
18. Jeane - Splendid Solution
19. Matt - The Hitler Myth
20. Matt - The Invasion of America
21. Matt - Weakness is a Crime: The Life of Bernarr Macfadden
22. Jeanette - Fred Astaire
23. Jeanette - Posters for the People: Art of the WPA
24. Book Psmith - Stephen Fry in America
25. Cath - Trains and Buttered Toast, a collection of radio broadcasts/essays
26. Nymeth - 84 Charing Cross Road
27. Lula O - The Wives of Henry the VIII
28. Scrap Girl - Angels in the Hair
29. Amanda - Mind-Rain
30. Katrina - The Long Way Down
31. CB James - The Great Mortality
32. Becky - Clara's War
33. Heather J - The Lost Men
34. Heather J - The Island at the Center of the World
35. Heather J - The Secret Doorway
36. Trish - The Complete Maus
37. Peta - Dreams From My Father
38. CB James - The Shakespeare Riots
39. Krin - Gipsy Moth Circles the World
40. Amanda - A Room of One's Own
41. Mish - The Female Brain
See June Reviews
24 comments:
My review of To Be A Slave by Julius Lester. It's a collection of primary accounts. Highly recommended!
I read TO HELL AND BACK by Audie Murphy. The review is here.
On Writing by Stephen King. It's terrific.
http://readywhenyouarecb.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-writing-memoir-of-craft-by-stephen.html
here is my review for the nonfiction challenge.
http://serendipityteacher.blogspot.com/2009/07/waiting-on-manana-by-miranda-innes.html
I can't believe I only have one book left to read to complete the challenge.
This was a deep one :)
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer
http://corinnesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/07/review-why-darwin-mattersthe-case.html
So, I'll just throw the other two I've done into this month :)
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
http://corinnesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/05/review-gift-from-sea-by-anne-morrow.html
and
An Edible history of Humanity by Tom Standage
http://corinnesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2009/05/review-edible-history-of-humanity-by.html
I've got two more. I've been in a very nonfiction mood this month.
Crazy For the Storm by Norman Ollestad
http://athomewithbooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/crazy-for-storm-by-norman-ollestad.html
Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg
http://athomewithbooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/alex-me-by-irene-pepperberg-review.html
The Burma Chronicles - Guy Delisle
http://thebookling.blogspot.com/2009/07/burma-chronicles-guy-delisle.html
Christina - Silent Spring
http://stacksofbooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/silent-spring-by-rachel-carson.html
I've read two more.
Seaworthy by T.R. Pearson
http://dogeardiary.blogspot.com/2009/07/seaworthy_10.html
Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger
http://dogeardiary.blogspot.com/2009/07/splendid-solution.html
http://jeanettesbooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/fred-astaire.html
Review of Fred Astaire biography. Unfortunately I did not really enjoy it all.
Another one from me.
Posters for the People: Art of the WPA
http://jeanettesbooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/posters-for-people-art-of-wpa.html
Stephen Fry in America
http://bookpsmith.blogspot.com/2009/07/book-review-stephen-fry-in-america.html
Trains and Buttered Toast, a collection of radio broadcasts/essays by John Betjeman:
http://read-warbler.blogspot.com/2009/07/john-betjeman.html
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
http://www.thingsmeanalot.com/2009/07/84-charing-cross-road-by-helene-hanff.html
When I picked this up I actually thought it was an epistolary novel and not a collection of real letters. But it's real, so I'm counting it :P
Lula O (The Wives of Henry the VIII)
http://strictlyletters.blogspot.com/2009/07/wives-of-henry-viii-by-antonia-fraser.html
Here is my final one. BOO HOO.
http://serendipityteacher.blogspot.com/2009/07/angels-in-my-hair-by-lorna-byrne.html
I have loved this challenge and look forward to joining in again next year.
Hey! I have one for you: Mind-Rain, edited by Scott Westerfeld (literary analysis):
http://zenleaf.blogspot.com/2009/07/mind-rain-edited-by-scott-westerfeld.html
katrinasreads - Long Way Down by Charley Boorman and Ewzn McGregor
http://katrinasreads.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-thoughts-long-way-down-by-charley.html
krin - Gipsy Moth Circles the World
http://krinek.blogspot.com/2009/07/gipsy-moth-circles-world-by-sir-francis.html
Trish - I just realized that I don't think I've posted links to ANY of the books I've read for the challenge so far ... oops! So these aren't all from July, but here are my reviews anyway.
Heather J. - The Lost Men
http://age30books.blogspot.com/2009/05/lost-men.html
Heather J. - The Island at the Center of the World
http://age30books.blogspot.com/2009/05/island-at-center-of-world.html
Heather J. - The Secret Doorway
http://age30books.blogspot.com/2009/06/secret-doorway-beyond-imagination.html
The Shakespeare Riots
http://readywhenyouarecb.blogspot.com/2009/07/shakespeare-riots-by-nigel-cliff.html
I think that may be five.
Last book for the NFF challenge, and I'm done!
A Room of One's Own
http://zenleaf.blogspot.com/2009/07/room-of-ones-own-by-virginia-woolf.html
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
http://ruinedbyreading.net/?p=72
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