Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

What books are you reading in this category? What recommendations do you have?

I'm going to read Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I also have Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I love me some Transcendentalists.

I'm going to read "what if?" by randall munroe. I heard it's funny and I absolutely love random nonsense science facts (who doesn't?), so I'm looking forward to read this one! :)

I read "Paris Letters" by Janice MacLeod and even went on her ETSY shop after and purchased one of the letters for my mum. It was like a "Eat Pray Love" st in France.

I'm also going to read "What if?"!

I'm going to read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. I've had that on my shelf for awhile now.

Dad Is Fat

Where Was Rebecca Shot?: Curiosities, Puzzles, And Conundrums In Modern Fiction

I'm currently reading "cubism: a history and an analysis 1907-1914", by John Golding.

I'm reading The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

I read Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans. Horrifying events in U.S. history during the gold rush days on the West coast. History I was not aware of until now.

I read The Group: Six People in Search of a Life for this prompt, but I've found more nonfiction books I want to read this year: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, which I counted for book by a female author (not just by a woman, but about women), and Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, which I want to read before I hear her speak later this week.

Sidenote: why do so many nonfiction books need to have subtitles?

I just finished reading Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit. Here are my thoughts from my brief review:

This book was so lovingly written by Audrey Hepburn's son; it was beautiful to see her through the eyes of someone who truly knew and loved her. It reads less like a biography than a call to action, to stand up for the poor, hungry, and innocent. Given that Audrey Hepburn devoted so much of herself to UNICEF and encouraged those in developed countries to feed the starving children of the world, this seems like a good way to write her story to me. Coco Chanel said"Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside," so by that definition, Audrey Hepburn certainly had an elegant spirit. It also has me looking for ways to be more elegant in my own life.

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance and it, too, has a subtitle. LOL

VERY interesting stuff...but sure got tired of reading about Global warning.

I read Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis which also qualified for my GCAC 2015 challenge.

Much more interesting than I thought a book about Wall Street would be.

I read Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree.

Tatiana wrote: "I read Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree."

This sounds really good. Adding it to my TBR.

Have you read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks about a cervical cancer gene and it's use today? Mostly it's about her Henrietta and the Lacks family.

Michelle wrote: "Have you read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks about a cervical cancer gene and it's use today? Mostly it's about her Henrietta and the Lacks family."

Yes, I read it a few years back. Such a fascinating book. I'm planning on reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer for the Pulitzer prompt.

I read The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom.

Sara wrote: "I read The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom."

One of our family favorites.

I am slowly going through Encyclopedia of Counseling, Enhanced Third Edition with Online Review Module: Master Review and Tutorial for the National Counselor Examination, State Counseling Exams, and the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examination (long title I know). I'm using it to study for the National Counseling Examination. Since I'm making it as one of the books for my challenge, I hope that it will give me much more motivation to get through it.

I read game of thrones #3 a storm of swords

Kerryann wrote: "I read game of thrones #3 a storm of swords"

I wonder if this is in the wrong prompt cuz I don't think Game Of Thrones is non-fiction. :-)

Your so right Melanie. I don't know why I've put it in here for lol.

Kerryann wrote: "Your so right Melanie. I don't know why I've put it in here for lol."

Our lives would certainly be exciting if we lived in "Game Of Thrones Land."

Melanie wrote: "Our lives would certainly be exciting if we lived in 'Game Of Thrones Land.'"

What great writing inspiration.

I'm not sure I'd like it very much. Fun to watch/read but not to live in.

I read 'A House in the Sky'. Maybe not the best written book ever but certainly a compelling story.

I plan on reading Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

I've just finished an unlikely nurse and midwife by Anne reavill

I read Inside the Magic Kingdom for work. It was okay.

Angie wrote: "I read Inside the Magic Kingdom for work. It was okay."

What do you have to do for work where you have to read Inside the Magic Kingdom?

For this prompt I read Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I heard about it when Nina Totenberg, longtime friend of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, reported on the book on NPR. Considering the author and title of the book, I expected it to be mostly about RBG's recent internet fame, but it was mostly a straightforward biography that occasionally acknowledged her memetic status. It was interesting enough, but not really what I was hoping for as a text.

Lots of choices for that one. I finally picked a local press book with no real publisher about a Roman-era theater near my parent's city: "Le site gallo-romain des Bouchauds". Interesting if you know the place and have an interest for archeology - which I do.

I read Georganne Bell „ The Cookie Companion".

If you like Ancient Egyptian history, The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney is excellent.