Non-fiction book Reco's
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Non-fiction book Reco's
| Sun, 10-02-2005 - 3:42pm |
Hi! I like non-fiction very much. Does anyone have any recommendations...any book that has been memorable? Or popular...and To be read?
Thanks!

Hi LftlGirl,
Nice to see you again :)
That's a wide open field.
Thanks for the recommendations! I would like to try them out. African Folk Tales sounds great! :-)
I am pretty open to different types of non-fiction, but I like reading stuff on Life, spirituality, self-development, psychology, career, beauty, health, getting organized, relationships, money matters, art and design, autobiograhies etc. etc. etc. Anything I can LEARN from :-) Anything n everything I guess.
One book that I have loved is "A Road Less Travelled". I read the author passed away. That is sad. That was a good book.
Hi lftlgirl! Last year, I read an amazing non-fiction for my RLBC. It was called The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. It's about a little Hmong girl with severe epilepsy and the clash of Western medicine and the Hmong culture in treating this little girl. It explored the Hmong culture, their history in Asia and immigration of many of them to the US after the Vietnam War. Absolutely riveting. Oh, another book that was incredible was First They Killed My Father about a little girl in Cambodia during Pol Pot's regime. Very powerful! This year my bookclub also read Under the Banner of Heaven and Fast Food Nation which were also very eye-opening books!
scrappy
i am making my list of all the suggestions i can get.
I don't read much non-fiction, but one book I read last year that I really liked was Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. It's about a reporter who goes undercover, sort of, and takes a series of minimum wage jobs to see what it's like to live on minimum wage. It was a real eye-opener for me. I think it should be required reading in every high school for all those kids that think education is not important. See link below.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805063897/ref=pd_bbs_null_1/104-2419213-4839136?v=glance&s=books