Comments for The Non Fiction Five Challenge

The Non Fiction Five Challenge: 03/24/09

The Rules (unchanged from previous years)

Read 5 non-fiction books during the months of May - September, 2009 (please link your reviews on Mister Linky each month; Mister Linky can be found each month on this blog)
Read at least one non-fiction book that is different from your other choices (i.e.: 4 memoirs and 1 self-help)
If interested, please sign up below with the link to your NFF Challenge post (all choices do not need to be posted and may change at any time)

My tentative list includes:

All Meat Looks Like South America: The World of Bruce McCall by Bruce McCall (Art)
Poetics Of Cinema by David Bordwell (Film)
The Music of Black Americans: A History by Eileen Southern (Music)
Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself by Becoming an EMT by Jane Stern (Memoir)
Candy and Me by Hilary Liftin (Memoir)

My actual list:

Gray Seas Under by Farley Mowat (history)
The Glenn Miller Conspiracy by Hunton Downs (biography)
She and I: A Fugue by Michael R. Brown (memoir)
Warrior from Heaven by Kermit Zarley (theology)
Sparks: How Parents Can Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers by Peter L. Benson (parenting)

Comment #1: Thursday, April, 9, 2009 at 20:29:37

Thanks for signing up for the challenge! I haven't read any of the books on your list, but they all sounds fascinating. Enjoy!

Comment #2: Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 17:07:43

Pussreboots

Thanks for hosting it!

Comment #3: Sunday, April, 12, 2009 at 01:49:51

Such varied choices!
Happy reading!

Comment #4: Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 11:50:34

It's a great way for me to get through the back log of nonfiction I want to read.

Reviews:
Alphabet Mystery by Audrey Wood
The Best Friend I Ever Had by David Nuffer
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
Black Rainbow by Barbara Michaels
The Bomb That Followed Me Home by Cevin Soling
Catalog by Eugene Mirabelli
The Chemist by Janson Mancheski
Culture Shock! California by Mark Cramer
The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig
Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
Duck for President by Doreen Cronin
Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl
How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo
Keeping Hannah Waiting by Dave Clarke
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Love in 90 Days by Diana Kirschner
The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady
Of Dreams and Reality by Frank L. Johnson
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Purplicious by Elizabeth and Victoria Kann
School Days by B. G. Hennessy
The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay
Sister Margaret by Rhonda Parrish
A Surprise for Rosie by Julia Rawlinson
Texas Bake Sale by Charles Coleman Finlay
There's a Wolf at the Door by Zoë B. Alley
Tiger Burning Bright by Theodora DuBois
Venice by Adrian Stokes and John Piper
Winding Broomcorn by Mario Milosevic
The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris

Ulysses:
Episode 2: Nestor: Kif
Episode 3: Proteus: Georgia Nicholson
Episode 4: Calypso: Parasites Lost
Episode 5: The Lotus Eaters: Down to the River to Pray

Miscellaneous:
Historical Fiction