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Today’s question is:
Do your read nonfiction?
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I read devotionals, with daily readings. Apart from those I read very few nonfiction Christian books. I have read a few biographies.
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My brain is drawn to story so no, I don’t read non-fiction books. I may use reference books to look something up, but that’s about it.
However, if the book contains case studies or other kinds of people-stories, I am likely to read it if it’s useful to me (eg. as research for a book I’m writing).
That said, I enjoy a good memoir. I recently read Stephanie Walters’ new memoir – “It’s Not A Sprint” – and loved it. Very well written and super interesting. I highly recommend it!
So glad you loved my memoir, Suzie! 🙂
Thanks for replying. I don’t tend to read alot of non fiction and when I do its not always Christian. (sports books etc)
I love non-fiction, especially Christian memoirs. I’ve read a lot of parenting books over the last few years too (I need all the help I can get lol). I think at the moment I’m reading about 50/50 fiction and non-fiction.
Thanks for commenting Stephanie. I know at ACW there are a lot of non fiction readers and authors. While we tend to focus more on fiction we do have Devotional writers and are happy to promote non fiction.
I love reading nonfiction! I tend to stick with Christian nonfiction where I can learn more about Jesus or self-help-type stuff.
Welcome Cindy, While the question just says non-fiction higher up I have added this sentence. As we are a faith-based group the questions refer mainly to Christian fiction or non-fiction. So glad you answered the way it was intended. We have a few more non fiction questions coming up in coming weeks.
Devotionals and other Christian books, plus a few others if they catch my eye.
One I read last year was called Tea at the Palace – all about afternoon tea recipes at the various royal palaces in the UK. I’ve also read a few books about Queen Elizabeth II recently and some art, craft and interior design books. Last year I read quite a few recipe books to find some new ideas of food when I needed to loose weight for medical reasons.
All up, in my yearly reading, it may be 3/4 fiction and 1/4 non-fiction.
I hadn’t thought of recipe books. most of my books are fiction except devotionals which I often don’t include in the yearly challenge.
If I read non fiction it’s a biography by someone that I admire or a subject that I’m interested in.
Thanks for commenting Cindi.
Hi Jenny, I’m selective in the nonfiction I read and I don’t read it often. I like memoir and I’ll usually read a specific memoir because it’s addressing a topic I’m particularly interested in. I tend to listen to podcasts rather than reading nonfiction books because I’m interested in hearing different perspectives on topics. I have read nonfiction books precisely because I heard about the book via a podcast. Sometimes I’ll read nonfiction for book research for my fiction writing.
makes sense.