Non Fic Books
Review | Rising Ground
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Books Mentioned:
*Julian Fellowes
- Belgravia
- Snobs
- Past Imperfect
Today I'm talking about the books I've been reading and the audiobooks I've been listening to since the new year began.
Books mentioned:
*Jane Mulvagh - Madresfield: The Real Brideshead
*Anne de Courcy
- The Viceroys Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters
- Debs at War: How Wartime Changed Their Lives 1939-1945
*Kate Chopin - The Awakening
*Julian Fellowes - Past Imperfect
1. True
2. Voice
3. Sport
4. Design
Olive's Channel: youtube.com/user/olivejuice1026/videos
Olive's Recommendation Video: youtu.be/Ywhitiq6Wmk
Non-Fiction November 2019 Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKhLFAWuTLxr50SGXVTMD3Iu
Books Mentioned:
*Edith Holden - The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
* Alice Mills - Every Girl's Duty: The Diary of a Victorian Debutante (Edited by: Maggy Parsons)
* Stuart Richards - Curtain Down at Her Majesty's: The Death of Queen Victoria in the Words of Those Who Were There
*Jane MacNamee (ed) - In Her Element: Women and The Landscape, An Anthology
*Clare Balding - Walking Home: My Family and Other Ramblings
*Richard Holmes: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
*Andrea Wulf - Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
*Ben Pentreath - English Decoration: Timeless Inspiration for the Contemporary Home
*Lucy Worsley - Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
* Kirsty McLeod - A Passion for Friendship: Sybil Colefax and Her Circle
Channels Mentioned:
*Gail Carriger youtube.com/user/gailcarriger
*Emily Cook (Arrrgh Schooling) youtube.com/channel/UC_CMPZURk62s-ZeTYyV5OUA
Build Your Library Curriculum www.buildyourlibrary.com
Books Mentioned:
*Gail Carriger
- Prudence (Custard Protocol #1)
- Imprudence (Custard Protocol #2)
- Competence (Custard Protocol #3)
*Shirley Hughes
- Summer
- Autumn
*Eric Carle - The Very Hungry Caterpillar
*Usborne Peep Inside
- The Castle
- Night Time
*Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Lost Tools of Learning
- Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)
*Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise - The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home.
*Susan Wise Bauer - The Story of the World: Volume 1:Ancient Times, From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor.
*Roger McGough (ed) - Poetry Please: The Nation's Favourite Poems.
*Emily Cook - A Literary Education: Adapting Charlotte Mason for Modern Secular Homeschooling
*Bernard J. Nebel, Ph.D. - Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding: A Science Curriculum for K-8 and Older, Beginning Science Learners, 2nd Ed. Vol.1, Grades K-2
*Thomas Wildgruber - Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools: Classes 1 to 8.
Lil's Review Video: youtu.be/eiZJpTkw3f0
Books Mentioned:
*Neil Ansell - The Last Wilderness: A Journey Into Silence
*Lucy Worsley
- Queen Victoria: Daughter. Wife. Mother. Widow.
- Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
*Lucy Siegle
- Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
- To Die for: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?
*Niki Brantmark - Lagom: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life
*Meik Wiking - The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well: The Danish Way of Live Well
*James Hansen - Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
*Janice Hadlow - The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians
*Tracy Borman - Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts
*Tom Williams - Viking Britain
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Books Mentioned:
*Lucy Mangan
- Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
- The Reluctant Bride: One Woman's Journey (Kicking and Screaming) Down the Aisle
- My Family and Other Disasters
- Hopscotch & Handbags: The Truth about Being a Girl
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Non-Fiction November Challenges, 2018:
1. Past time/Pastime
2. Self/Shelf
3. Wander/Wonder
4. Micro/Macro
Olive's announcement video: youtu.be/fhnoeidwzHw
Books Mentioned:
*Annie Gray - The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria
*Lucy Mangan - Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading
*James T. Costa - Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
*Neil Ansell - The Last Wilderness: A Journey into Silence
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Books Mentioned:
*Lucy Worsley - Jane Austen at Home: A Biography. Narrated by Ruth Redman.
*Dan Jones - The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors. Narrated by the author.
*Sian Evans - Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars. Narrated by Carole Boyd.
*Kathryn Hughes - Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum. Narrated by Jenny Funnell.
*Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. Narrated by Laurence Kennedy.
*Janice Hadlow - The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians. Narrated by Adjoa Andoh.
*Jane Austen - Persuasion. Narrated by Juliet Stevenson.
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Tara Button: tarabutton.com
Books Mentioned:
*Tara Button - A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life
*Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever
*James Wallman - Stuffocation: Living More with Less
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Books Mentioned:
*Tracy Norman - The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
*Lucy Inglis - Georgian London: Into the Streets
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#nonfichistoryclub review video: youtu.be/Aw__5zF3Ot4
Books Mentioned:
*Kim John Payne (with Lisa M Ross) - Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
*Pamela Druckerman - French Children Don't Throw Food (Also known as Bringing Up Bebe)
*Jamie Cat Callan - French Women Don't Sleep Alone: Pleasurable Secrets to Finding Love
*Lucy Inglis - Georgian London: Into the Streets
*Mary Berry - Mary's Household Tips and Tricks: Your Guide to Happiness in the Home
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http://nonfichistoryclub.blogspot.co.uk
Books Mentioned:
*Lucy Inglis - Georgian London: Into the Streets
*Christopher Winn - I Never Knew That About London
Lucy Inglis's Blog: http://georgianlondon.com
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Non Fic History Book Club:
Announcement: youtu.be/3tLF5Bl1Yr4
Blog: nonfichistoryclub.blogspot.co.uk
Books Mentioned:
*Lucy Inglis - Georgian London: Into the Streets
*George Monbiot - Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
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Books Mentioned:
*Kate Bolick - Spinster: Making A Life of One's Own
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Books Mentioned:
*Mary Beard - Women and Power: A Manifesto (review: youtu.be/X2T3oAzEtBA)
*Tania O'Donnell - A History of Courtship: 800 Years of Seduction Techniques (review: youtu.be/SH_zxSALth4)
*Bill Bryson (ed) Icons of England (review: youtu.be/w9rLDCYJtyM)
*Laurie Penny - Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults (review: youtu.be/KvdVf8GxhU0)
*Holly Baxter and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett - The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media
*Kate Bolick - Spinster: Making A Life of One's Own (review: youtu.be/eEgWtwVmcuA)
*Donna M. Lucey - Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas (review: youtu.be/jvZxIK6NtqM)
*Robert MacFarlane - The Gifts of Reading
Goodreads Page: goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2017
NFN Playlists:
2017 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKi5_1W9Tu7nHoan3CpIPHZj
2016 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
2015 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKjVEtd7fE0IqWl3Ux_aKBhK
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(I apologise about the volume difference, it's either silence or lots of noise I'm afraid)
Books Mentioned:
*Morgan Ring - So High a Blood: The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox
*Helen Castor - She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
*Dan Jones
- The Templars
- The Plantagenets: The Kings who Made England
*Annie Grey - The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria
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Book Mentioned:
*Donna M. Lucey - Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
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Laurie Penny's Blog: http://laurie-penny.com/blog
The essay that inspired me to buy this book: longreads.com/2017/11/07/the-unforgiving-minute/amp
Books Mentioned:
*Laurie Penny - Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults
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I'm so excited for when littley's older and we can have all the wonderful rebel girls / inspiring women kids books that are coming out now. If you have any recommendations please leave them down below!
Irene Chan's Instagram: instagram.com/cenerie
Books Mentioned:
*Dawn Michell - 100 First Words
*Ruth Spiro, Illustrated by Irene Chan
- Baby Loves Aerospace Engineering
- Baby Loves Thermodynamics
* Jill MacDonald - Solar System
Goodreads Page: goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2017
NFN Playlists:
2017 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKi5_1W9Tu7nHoan3CpIPHZj
2016 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
2015 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKjVEtd7fE0IqWl3Ux_aKBhK
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Chatting about Beckie's Book: youtu.be/ReW3nIpeUQg
Books Mentioned:
*Alison Weir - The Six Wives of Henry VIII
*Richard Holmes - The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
*Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Jerusalem: A Biography
- The Romanovs: 1613-1918
*Laurie Penney - Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults
*Mary Beard - Women & Power: A Manifesto
*Alison Weir - The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
*Rachel Tretheway - Mistress of the Arts: The Passionate Life of Georgina, Duchess of Bedford
*David Olusoga : Black and British: A Forgotten History
*Donnay M. Lucey - Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
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Goodreads Page: goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2017
NFN Playlists:
2017 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKi5_1W9Tu7nHoan3CpIPHZj
2016 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
2015 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKjVEtd7fE0IqWl3Ux_aKBhK
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Deshahsheh Scene: archaeologyonlinejournal.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/2.png
Books Mentioned:
*Rebecca Dean - Warfare and Weaponry in Dynastic Egypt (Buy here: pen-and-sword.co.uk/Warfare-and-Weaponry-in-Dynastic-Egypt-Hardback/p/12898)
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CPRE: The Campaign for the Protection of Rural England
Books Mentioned:
*Bill Bryson (ed) - Icons of England
Goodreads Page: goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2017
NFN Playlists:
2017 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKi5_1W9Tu7nHoan3CpIPHZj
2016 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
2015 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKjVEtd7fE0IqWl3Ux_aKBhK
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Books Mentioned:
*Mary Beard - Women & Power: A Manifesto
*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists
*Jackie Fleming - The Trouble With Women
Goodreads Page: goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2017
NFN Playlists:
2017 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKi5_1W9Tu7nHoan3CpIPHZj
2016 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
2015 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKjVEtd7fE0IqWl3Ux_aKBhK
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Books Mentioned:
*George Mikes - How to be a Brit
*Evelyn Lord - The Hell-Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies
*Stephen Taylor - Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard
*David Waller - The Magnificent Mrs Tennant: The Adventurous Life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian Grande Dame
*Alice Miles - Every Girl's Duty: The Diary of a Victorian Debutante. Edited with a commentary by Maggy Parsons
*Sophie Campbell - The Season: A Summer Whirl Through the English Social Season
Challenges:
- Scholarship
- Substance
- Love
- Home
Olive's (abookolive) Video:youtu.be/bG01KIi0Nxc
Goodreads Page: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
NFN Playlists:
2017 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKi5_1W9Tu7nHoan3CpIPHZj
2016 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
2015 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
My TBR:
*Love - Robin Dunbar - The Science of Love and Betrayal
*Home - Bill Bryson (ed) - Icons of England and Lucy Worsley - Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
*Substance - Kathryn Harkup - A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
*Scholarship - Isobel Grundy - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment
Recommendations:
*Jane MacNamee - In Her Element: Women in the Landscape. An Anthology. youtu.be/m9DkrqATZbk
*Simon Armitage - Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way youtu.be/ABWldCjNwAw
*HRH The Prince of Wales - On the Future of Food
*Sarah Gristwood - Perdita: Royal Mistress, Writer, Romantic
*Deborah Yaffe - Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom youtu.be/t4eWQBqSGnU
*Hallie Rubenhold - Lady Worsley's Whim: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce
*Thomas Penn - Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
*Venetia Murray - High Society in the Regency Period: 1788-1830
*Adrian Tinniswood - The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House in Between the Wars youtu.be/x73Ze0F3pAw
*Rebecca Dean - Warfare and Weaponry in Dynastic Egypt pen-and-sword.co.uk/Warfare-and-Weaponry-in-Dynastic-Egypt-Hardback/p/12898
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Challenges:
- Scholarship
- Substance
- Love
- Home
Olive's (abookolive) Video: youtu.be/-y71FArwMNQ
Goodreads Page: goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2017
NFN Playlists:
2017 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKi5_1W9Tu7nHoan3CpIPHZj
2016 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
2015 - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKjVEtd7fE0IqWl3Ux_aKBhK
Books Mentioned:
*Paul Langford - A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783
*Deirdre Le Faye - Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels
*Robert Halsband - The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
*Chris Woodford - Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home
*Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
*Kat Arney - Herding Hemingways Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
*Katie Hickman - Courtesans
*Antonia Fraser - Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
*Gill Paul - Love Stories: The True Love Stories Behind the Silver Screen
*Lucy Worsley - Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
*Bill Bryson: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
*David Olusoga - Black and British: A Forgotten History
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Book Mentioned:
*Robert Webb - How Not to be a Boy
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In the future I'll be reviewing fiction on a separate channel (Whisky & Wodehouse youtube.com/channel/UC36-XhDAcMSHJIef2LOWdMA) so please do pop over and say hi!
Congratulations to Karen of KarenReads (youtube.com/channel/UC_6rjMFppHe-6HwFIENX7dg) for winning the copy of 'Celebrating Pride and Prejudice'.
Instagram Mentioned:
DG Rampton - @fortheloveofjaneausten
Books Mentioned
*Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
*Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto
*DG Rampton - Artemisia
*Milly Johnson
- The Yorkshire Pudding Club
- A Spring Affair
*Rosie Thomas - Iris and Ruby
*Evelyn Waugh
- A Handful of Dust
- Brideshead Revisited
*Kathleen Tessaro - The Flirt
*Elizabeth Chadwick
- The Summer Queen
- The Winter Crown
- The Autumn Throne
*Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck
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Books Mentioned:
*Jennifer Adams (illustrated by Alison Oliver)
- Sense and Sensibility: An Opposites Primer
- Emma: An Emotions Primer
- Pride and Prejudice: A Numbers Primer
- Romeo and Juliet: A Numbers Primer
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Books Mentioned:
*Caroline Sanderson - A Rambling Fancy: in the footsteps of Jane Austen
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Books Mentioned:
*Deborah Yaffe - Among the Janeites: A Journey through the World of Jane Austen Fandom
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Books Mentioned:
*Susannah Fullerton
- Happily Ever After: Celebrating Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
- Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 Years of Jane Austen's Masterpiece
Giveaway: Please leave a comment below with your favourite P&P character and why. If you're under 18 please get your parents'/guardians' permission as I will need your address if you win. Worldwide entry. I will pick a winner by random at the end of August.
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Book Mentioned:
*Margaret C. Sullivan - Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Covers
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Where did you start with this wonderful author?
Books Mentioned:
*Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey
- Persuasion
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
- Mansfield Park
- Emma
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Original videos:
Ange: youtu.be/j54X5J6PMt8
Yamini: youtu.be/2UkCPWoFtjo
Books Mentioned:
*Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
*Jane Austen
- Persuasion
- Pride and Prejudice
*Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone (Alma Classics)
*Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Wordsworth Classics)
*F. Scotts Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby
*Bram Stoker - Dracula
*Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
*Gaston Leroux - Phantom of the Opera
*Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
*Virgina Woolf - A Room of One's Own
*Frances Hodgeson Burnett - The Secret Garden
*Lousia May Alcott
- Little Women
- Good Wives
- Little Men
- Jo's Boys
*Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
*Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?
*Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time
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Books Mentioned:
*Joan Didion - Play it As It Lays
*Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes
*Elizabeth George - A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley #1)
*Ashley Weaver - Murder at the Brightwell (Amory Ames #1)
*Anne Fortier - Juliet
*Kathleen Tessaro
- The Debutante
- The Perfume Collector
While I wasn't going to summarise each of the 17 Regency Romances I read they were all great fun and the authors I read were (in volume consumed order!) Rose Gordon, Courtney Milan, Christi Caldwell, Catherine Gayle and Cheryl Bolen.
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Books
*Anne Sebba - That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
*Erin Blakemore - The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons from Jane Austen to Laura Ingells Wilder
*Samantha Ellis
- How to be a Heroine: Or What I've Learned from Reading too Much
- Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Living
*William Dalrymple - In Xanadu: A Quest
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Books Mentioned:
*Natalie Livingstone - The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home
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Victoria's Channel (Eve's Alexandria): youtube.com/channel/UCi542B3twFEbcDZ8z2VgJXg
Books Mentioned:
*Madeleine Bunting
- The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre
- Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey
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Books Mentioned:
*Mark Forsyth
- A Christmas Cornucopia: The Hidden Stories Behind our Yuletide Traditions
- The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
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#NonFictionNovember2016 Giveaway Winners are:
Runwright Reads
Alisya Edwards
Olive's Channel (abookolive) - youtube.com/channel/UC6wKgH6YIKKfNX9-EN0dxIA
Victoria's Channel (Eve's Alexandria) - youtube.com/channel/UCi542B3twFEbcDZ8z2VgJXg
Books Mentioned:
*Fiona Reynolds - The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future
*Sara Read - Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540-1740
*Jens Muhling - A Journey Into Russia
*Meik Wiking - The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
*Carl Sagan
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- Cosmos
*Madeleine Bunting
- The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre
- Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey
*Tracy Chevalier
- Burning Bright
- Remarkable Creatures
*Stef Penney
- The Tenderness of Wolves
- Under a Pole Star
*Rosamunde Pilcher - The Empty House
*Theresa Thomlinson - A Swarming of Bees
#NonFictionNovember2016 Playlist - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
#NonFictionNovember2016 Goodread's Page - goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2016
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Books Mentioned:
*Sara Read - Maids, Wives, Widows: Exploring Early Modern Women's Lives, 1540-1740
*Kate Hubbard - Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
#NonFictionNovember2016 Goodreads Group: goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2016
#NonFictionNovember2016 Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
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Books Mentioned:
*Fiona Reynolds - The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future
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Book Mentioned:
*Jens Muhling - A Journey into Russia (Translated by Eugene H. Hayworth)
#NonFictionNovember2016 Goodreads Group: goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2016
#NonFictionNovember2016 Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
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Our 4 challenges are:
1. New
2. Fascinating
3. Controversial
4. Important
Olive's TBR and Recommendations - youtu.be/---zoKmokYE
#NonFictionNovember2016 Playlist - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc
#NonFictionNovember2016 Goodreads Page - goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2016
Books Mentioned:
*Jens Muhling (translated by Eugene H. Hayworth) - A Journey into Russia
*Kate Hubbard - Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
*Fiona Reynolds - The Fight for Beauty: Our Fight for a Better Future
*Carl Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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The challenges this year are:
- NEW
- FASCINATING
- CONTROVERSIAL
- IMPORTANT
Olive's Video - youtu.be/yv0hbY74N2Q
The goodreads group (goodreads.com/group/show/174090-nonfiction-november-2016)
#NonFictionNovember2015 Playlist (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKjVEtd7fE0IqWl3Ux_aKBhK)
#NonFictionNovember2016 Playlist (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtuTjBBknbKiXSF8TsDSLCQKUwggIpSlc)
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Books Mentioned:
*Jane Robinson
- Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education
- A Force to be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute (review video: youtu.be/XoWRlZn_jzI)
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