Great video Olive. The Salt Path is a great book and the southwest coast path finishes near where I live. I was on the judging panel when we awarded Rough Magic first place for one of the categories.
As a former newspaper photographer, Lynsey Addario's book was on my shelf the moment it was released. You'll love it, I'm sure. It's a rollercoaster of a read; so much tension and curiosity and compassion and everything about why photojournalists believe in the power of the work they do.
I will be so excited to hear your thoughts on Never Home Alone! I picked this book up years ago at a local Nature Preserve gift shop and have never seen anyone else talk about it! I also plan to read it for the same prompt 😊 Thanks for a great video, Olive! Can’t wait till November 🎉
I've settled on 2 picks for Nonfiction November so far. The first one is Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg. (Join) and the other is The Farm by Richard Rhodes. (Path)
I'm sad this will be your last round, but this readathon and your videos have inspired me to read more non-fiction. The one I most want to read is Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Rome Republic by Tom Holland. I might also read Robin Williams by: Ziggy Watson, but I wish this one was longer.
My interpretation for shot is gonna be one shot - a nonfiction book i can read in one sitting I loved participating in the readathon for the last, i think, 6 years. Thank you for the great time, Olive! I'm excited to see what comes next ❤📚
Here's my plan: * Code - The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West by John Branch * Path - West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express by Jim DeFelice * Shot - Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape by Mark Lee Gardner * Join - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni (which we are reading in my work book club) I read plenty of non-fiction, and I may read nothing but in November. Thank you, Olive!
aww that's so cool that you mention Dippy! Coventry was lucky enough to get a visit from the Dippy that usually lives at the Natural History Museum in London. It was very cool and my daughter loved them even though she was a little intimidated from the size of them at first!
I've had "Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI" on order at my library for months and months. Maybe it will be finally ready for me by November? I hope so! I'm also eyeing "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain on my shelf in the Readers Digest hardcover editions that you love... might be good for Path... and I had to return "Nuclear War: A Scenario" to the library half finished. It's reserved again for me, and might be my Shot read for November. I always enjoy these videos of yours, thanks for doing it one last time, Olive.
I slightly different take on PATH, I recommend The Smartest Guys In the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. It is about a company run into the ground by corporate leaders often considered to be sociopaths.
Oh my! I have played WoW for many many years and this book sounds fab, i did not know about it, so awesome! Salt Path has too been on my radar for a while. You have recommended many awesome books 🎉
Cultish is on my shortlist for the Join prompt! Path is the only one I've locked in and the others still have a few options I'm debating between. -Becks
I'm only planning on reading 1 book this Nonfiction November, but its one I've owned since 2011. The Horse, the Wheel and Language, all about how the Indo-European language was spread through the steppes buy looking at archeological remains of the horse cultures. If I have time I many pick up another.
I absolutely LOVE that you went there with the Michael K. Williams memoir, our brains went to the exact same place with ‘code’ but I didn’t know how to make the link through nonfiction - genius! Omar ♥️
I forgot about Nonfiction November! I'm currently reading a physical copy of Twelve Might Orphans, so that works, but I had just downloaded a Louis L'Amour audiobook, so I'll return that and check it out later. I'm also supposed to read The Winter Garden for book club, but this gives me an excuse to avoid that book for now. I don't have to have it read until December 5, so I can just speedrun it when the month ends 😆. I don't really care for Kristen Hannah anyway. Now to look over my audiobook list and pick something out there while I read my physical book. Anyone else always have an audiobook and physical book going at the same time?
Shot possibilities: Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers by Michael Gross, Gangbuster: One Man’s Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan by Alan Prendergast, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns
I seem to have a lot of books that would fit Path or Shot, but I'm not sure about the other two. I do have a rec for Code though. I read Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia earlier this year, and it was excellent. So I might consider that prompt covered already. Four non-fiction books in one month is three more than I normally read, so maybe I should just focus on the other three prompts.
Join Possibilities: The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman, The Birthright: A History of Citizenship in America by Bill Fortenberry, The Women’s Suffrage Movement by Sally Roesch Wagner, Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical by Barbara Isenberg, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
For Nonfiction November, I’m reading _Mathematics and the Imagination_ (1940) by Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. I’ve had this book for decades and have read a few of the chapters, but now I will read it straight through. This is the book that coined the name “googol” for 10^100. It might fit the prompt “path” since one chapter talks about the snowflake curve - a perimeter of infinite length that encloses a finite area.
For path - a book I liked was Nature's Ghosts by Sophie Yeo journalist Sophie Yeo examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last Ice Age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries. Uncovering the stories of the people who have helped to shape the landscape, she seeks out their footprints even where it seems there are none to be found. And she explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth. I thought this was a good book and informative.
I wasn't going to worry about the key words, but it's just too much fun trying to fit books to it. I'll have to look over my tbr to decide what I'll read for what.
I love planning out NFN reading! So far, I'm planning..... Path: The Creative Act : A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, and Code: Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII. Still have to decide on Shot and Join...
For Code, I reccommend "Piddington's Secret" by Martin T. Hart. The Piddingtons were a magician act that took place in Britain who were renound for their psychic abilities. Hart descusses how he believes they managed to accomplish the feats of supposed magic and describes the tricks quite well. It's a fun read.
I loved your recomendations, specially The violinist's thumb, Play Nice ( i love playing video, although i have never play one game from blizzard lol) and The butchering art.
I'm not sure of everything but do have 2 for sure. Path- Walking to Listen by Andrew Forsthoefel. When andrew was 23, he set off on a cross country walk to find guidance and found so much more just by talking to strangers and listening to their stories. Join- The Wives by Simone Gorrindo (her story as a military wife and the other military wives she met as a community
I’m going to try to read The Sylvanians for Join - as it’s a non fiction about a cult in NYC. I’m not sure about the other challenge words. I’ll have to think on it I have amassed quite a lot of non-fiction this year that still needs to be read so I might have to stretch to get the challenge words to fit my most anticipateds!!!! lol
Code possibilities: Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford, The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I by William C. Meadows, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sarah A. Seo, On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Making of Gender Equality Law by Philippa Strum, The Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman
Thanks so much, Olive. I’ve ordered Be My Guest and Never Home Alone. They both sound great to me. So looking forward to #nonfictionnovember ! Going to read The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher for Code, A Time For Gifts for Path, The Emperor of Maladies for Shot and possibly Never Home Alone for Join. What fun!
I love shopping my own shelves for these challenges so this what I’m thinking I’ll put on my TBR Code (the penal code or criminal code) -the color of Law -just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Path -Master Slave Husband Wife -the Warmth of Other Sons -Between two kingdoms Shot (guns) (basketball) -the second by carol anderson -straight shooter by Stephen A -Black Ball Join -sure I’ll join your cult -sex cult nun -cultish
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Path - "Margaret Hamilton From Cleveland ohio to the Land of Oz " about her journey from kindergarten teacher to the Wicked Witch!
That's probably a fascinating book!
Great video Olive. The Salt Path is a great book and the southwest coast path finishes near where I live. I was on the judging panel when we awarded Rough Magic first place for one of the categories.
As a former newspaper photographer, Lynsey Addario's book was on my shelf the moment it was released. You'll love it, I'm sure. It's a rollercoaster of a read; so much tension and curiosity and compassion and everything about why photojournalists believe in the power of the work they do.
Do you annotate your books as you read? If so, could you make a video on how you annotate? Looking forward to November! 😊
I will be so excited to hear your thoughts on Never Home Alone! I picked this book up years ago at a local Nature Preserve gift shop and have never seen anyone else talk about it! I also plan to read it for the same prompt 😊
Thanks for a great video, Olive! Can’t wait till November 🎉
I loved “Never Home Alone.” I read large parts of it to my husband.
Great pics
I've settled on 2 picks for Nonfiction November so far. The first one is Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg. (Join) and the other is The Farm by Richard Rhodes. (Path)
Thank you Olive for some wonderful suggestions.. wishing you a happy Nonfiction November! 😃📚
I second The Salt Path and Cultish! Two fantastic reads. And thank you for putting Be My Guest on my radar! That sounds like my kind of book.
Oh! Thank you for including the book about Sunday In The Park With George! I can’t wait to read it.❤
Another stellar video! Thanks for all the suggestions
Nonfiction November is almost knocking on our door! And will be waiting for it.
The Salt Path has been on my list for a while now so I think it is finally the time! Thank you for recommendations :)
I'm sad this will be your last round, but this readathon and your videos have inspired me to read more non-fiction. The one I most want to read is Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Rome Republic by Tom Holland. I might also read Robin Williams by: Ziggy Watson, but I wish this one was longer.
My interpretation for shot is gonna be one shot - a nonfiction book i can read in one sitting
I loved participating in the readathon for the last, i think, 6 years. Thank you for the great time, Olive! I'm excited to see what comes next ❤📚
Here's my plan:
* Code - The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West by John Branch
* Path - West Like Lightning: The Brief, Legendary Ride of the Pony Express by Jim DeFelice
* Shot - Shot All to Hell: Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape by Mark Lee Gardner
* Join - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni (which we are reading in my work book club)
I read plenty of non-fiction, and I may read nothing but in November.
Thank you, Olive!
aww that's so cool that you mention Dippy! Coventry was lucky enough to get a visit from the Dippy that usually lives at the Natural History Museum in London. It was very cool and my daughter loved them even though she was a little intimidated from the size of them at first!
Thank you Olive!
I've had "Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI" on order at my library for months and months. Maybe it will be finally ready for me by November? I hope so! I'm also eyeing "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain on my shelf in the Readers Digest hardcover editions that you love... might be good for Path... and I had to return "Nuclear War: A Scenario" to the library half finished. It's reserved again for me, and might be my Shot read for November. I always enjoy these videos of yours, thanks for doing it one last time, Olive.
I’ve started four nonfiction books in recent months, so my focus will be on FINISHING those! 😂
Never Home Alone sounds fascinating. I have added it to my library list for later.
I slightly different take on PATH, I recommend The Smartest Guys In the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. It is about a company run into the ground by corporate leaders often considered to be sociopaths.
Oh my! I have played WoW for many many years and this book sounds fab, i did not know about it, so awesome! Salt Path has too been on my radar for a while. You have recommended many awesome books 🎉
Adding Scenes from my life to my want to read lists. So many great recommendations, Olive, thank you.
Cultish is on my shortlist for the Join prompt! Path is the only one I've locked in and the others still have a few options I'm debating between. -Becks
I'm only planning on reading 1 book this Nonfiction November, but its one I've owned since 2011. The Horse, the Wheel and Language, all about how the Indo-European language was spread through the steppes buy looking at archeological remains of the horse cultures. If I have time I many pick up another.
The figures on the Code book remind me of the dancing men from that Holmes story. Love your videos!
I’m starting with Voices from Chernobyl.
Never Home Alone sounds very interesting - I will add that to my TBR!
This is a great book (Visions from Chernobyl) and I recommend it highly.
I absolutely LOVE that you went there with the Michael K. Williams memoir, our brains went to the exact same place with ‘code’ but I didn’t know how to make the link through nonfiction - genius!
Omar ♥️
As a recovering WoW addict, I am so gonna have to pick up Play Nice!
I’m gonna read a comedian’s biography as it shows the “path” he’s taken in his life. I work in a medical library so could grab a book from there too
I forgot about Nonfiction November! I'm currently reading a physical copy of Twelve Might Orphans, so that works, but I had just downloaded a Louis L'Amour audiobook, so I'll return that and check it out later. I'm also supposed to read The Winter Garden for book club, but this gives me an excuse to avoid that book for now. I don't have to have it read until December 5, so I can just speedrun it when the month ends 😆. I don't really care for Kristen Hannah anyway. Now to look over my audiobook list and pick something out there while I read my physical book. Anyone else always have an audiobook and physical book going at the same time?
Shot possibilities: Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers by Michael Gross, Gangbuster: One Man’s Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan by Alan Prendergast, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns
I seem to have a lot of books that would fit Path or Shot, but I'm not sure about the other two. I do have a rec for Code though. I read Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia earlier this year, and it was excellent. So I might consider that prompt covered already. Four non-fiction books in one month is three more than I normally read, so maybe I should just focus on the other three prompts.
Join Possibilities: The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman, The Birthright: A History of Citizenship in America by Bill Fortenberry, The Women’s Suffrage Movement by Sally Roesch Wagner, Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical by Barbara Isenberg, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich
For Nonfiction November, I’m reading _Mathematics and the Imagination_ (1940) by Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. I’ve had this book for decades and have read a few of the chapters, but now I will read it straight through. This is the book that coined the name “googol” for 10^100. It might fit the prompt “path” since one chapter talks about the snowflake curve - a perimeter of infinite length that encloses a finite area.
For path - a book I liked was Nature's Ghosts by Sophie Yeo
journalist Sophie Yeo examines how the planet would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity: from landscapes carved out by megafauna to the primeval forests that emerged following the last Ice Age, and from the eagle-haunted skies of the Dark Ages to the flower-decked farms of more recent centuries.
Uncovering the stories of the people who have helped to shape the landscape, she seeks out their footprints even where it seems there are none to be found. And she explores the timeworn knowledge that can help to fix our broken relationship with the earth.
I thought this was a good book and informative.
I wasn't going to worry about the key words, but it's just too much fun trying to fit books to it. I'll have to look over my tbr to decide what I'll read for what.
Adding Play Nice. As a sometime gamer who used to be a game writer, this sounds great.
I love planning out NFN reading! So far, I'm planning..... Path: The Creative Act : A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, and Code: Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII.
Still have to decide on Shot and Join...
Reading In Extremis, The Life of war correspondant Marie Colvin
For Code, I reccommend "Piddington's Secret" by Martin T. Hart. The Piddingtons were a magician act that took place in Britain who were renound for their psychic abilities. Hart descusses how he believes they managed to accomplish the feats of supposed magic and describes the tricks quite well. It's a fun read.
I loved your recomendations, specially The violinist's thumb, Play Nice ( i love playing video, although i have never play one game from blizzard lol) and The butchering art.
I'm not sure of everything but do have 2 for sure. Path- Walking to Listen by Andrew Forsthoefel. When andrew was 23, he set off on a cross country walk to find guidance and found so much more just by talking to strangers and listening to their stories. Join- The Wives by Simone Gorrindo (her story as a military wife and the other military wives she met as a community
I’m going to try to read The Sylvanians for Join - as it’s a non fiction about a cult in NYC. I’m not sure about the other challenge words. I’ll have to think on it I have amassed quite a lot of non-fiction this year that still needs to be read so I might have to stretch to get the challenge words to fit my most anticipateds!!!! lol
The Salt Path is my "Path" book!
good morning
? Never home alone ," peaks my interest and even though I don't personally do challenges I especially love your nonfiction recommendations!
Read The Story of the Heart.
Code possibilities: Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford, The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I by William C. Meadows, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sarah A. Seo, On Account of Sex: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the Making of Gender Equality Law by Philippa Strum, The Field of Blood by Joanne Freeman
Thanks so much, Olive. I’ve ordered Be My Guest and Never Home Alone. They both sound great to me. So looking forward to #nonfictionnovember ! Going to read The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher for Code, A Time For Gifts for Path, The Emperor of Maladies for Shot and possibly Never Home Alone for Join. What fun!
Hope you love ATime For Gifts (Patrick Leigh Fermor). One of my favs!
Reading How Not to Age by Michael Greger MD for the code challenge.
Pretty much ANYTHING by Rob Dunn is worth reading.
💚🖤
I love shopping my own shelves for these challenges so this what I’m thinking I’ll put on my TBR
Code (the penal code or criminal code)
-the color of Law
-just Mercy Bryan Stevenson
Path
-Master Slave Husband Wife
-the Warmth of Other Sons
-Between two kingdoms
Shot (guns) (basketball)
-the second by carol anderson
-straight shooter by Stephen A
-Black Ball
Join
-sure I’ll join your cult
-sex cult nun
-cultish
Path:
Mother theresa helped those at the end of their lives who were struggling to go down that PATH with dignity by showing them the love of God❤
Thanks for some goo reoommendations, I'm reading Showman (bio of Zelensky) by Shuster and Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan for non fiction November
Reminder:
-Code
-Path
-Shot
-Join
Path: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
I have six on my “pile of possibilities” for NFN! I’ll share and tag you on IG!
Code: A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
ᴛᴏᴛᴀʟʟʏ ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋɪɴɢ ᴏᴜᴛ "ᴄᴜʟᴛɪsʜ" & ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛʜɪʀsᴛ ᴛʀᴀᴘ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ᴛʜᴜᴍʙɴᴀɪʟ
Holding a stack of books is a thirst trap? I must be really old & out of the loop 🤣