Non-Fiction

ExWhoDoesntCare

(4,741 posts) Mon Dec 4, 2023, 05:30 AM Dec 2023

NonFic of the week 4 December 2023

Light NF week for me: Tiny Moons by Nina Mingya-Powles. It's sort of a cross between a travel journal and a food memoir about a year of eating in Shanghai.

So what non-fiction is everyone else reading this week?

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NonFic of the week 4 December 2023 (Original Post) ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 OP

High Conflict: Why we get trapped and how we get out EverHopeful Dec 2023 #1

Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope, by Sarah Bakewell. Timeflyer Dec 2023 #2

Still Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton. intheflow Dec 2023 #3

Watergate: A New History PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2023 #4

EverHopeful

(378 posts)

1. High Conflict: Why we get trapped and how we get out

Reply to ExWhoDoesntCare (Original post)

Mon Dec 4, 2023, 08:09 AM

Dec 2023

By Amanda Ripley. One of the most useful books I've read lately. If I won the lottery I'd buy thousands of copies and give them out to anyone hoping to heal our dysfunctional situation.

Timeflyer

(2,691 posts)

2. Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope, by Sarah Bakewell.

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Mon Dec 4, 2023, 08:25 AM

Dec 2023

intheflow

(29,000 posts)

3. Still Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton.

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Mon Dec 4, 2023, 09:24 AM

Dec 2023

Listening to it as an audio book. Wheaton, for anyone wondering, played teenage whiz kid Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation. As he re-reads his autobiography (written when he was 29 in the early 2000s), he adds both sweetly reflective and hysterically funny updated commentary revisiting his youthful "wisdom". Two thumbs up for any ST:TNG fans!

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,773 posts)

4. Watergate: A New History

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Tue Dec 5, 2023, 08:58 PM

Dec 2023

by Garrett M. Graff.

I was already an adult by time Nixon was elected (turned 20 in 1968) and especially since I lived in the DC area, worked at DCA as a ticket agent, I remember his presidency and the many events related to Watergate. But this book is eye-opening in that I didn't fully appreciate just how criminal Nixon and his staff were, how blithely they ignored laws, how many truly incompetent people were promoted to high office. Wow.

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