Well, here we are on Book Review Tuesday yet again. This week’s theme: non-fiction. You see, I have recently taken on a new role – I will be a guest reviewer, providing book reviews on a variety of non-fiction topics and themes, for LuxuryReading.com (check it out – it’s a very cool site, and sometime in the future you will be able to see me there). As I was selecting the first two titles that I will review for them, I got a burst of excitement about the slew of non-fiction titles in my library that I want to get through. So, I thought that today’s reviews would feature the last few non-fiction books that I have read.

Turns out I have read three non-fiction books so far in 2011 – which is to say, only 10% of this year’s thirty books to date. Not very impressive as showings go – or so I thought. I love non-fiction – history, memoirs/biographies/autobiographies, humor, political commentary, cultural analyses, books on how/why we think and write and behave. Not only do I like to learn things, but there is a lot of history that reads so unbelievably, with such outrageous characters and plotlines, that the stories seem like they have to be fiction even when they are not. So I figured I had to be off-track, and thought I would run some numbers on the last year/so to see how far off I was, exactly.
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