This month is Nonfiction November, hosted by Doing Dewey, Julz Reads, Sarah's Bookshelves, Sophisticated Dorkiness, and What's Nonfiction?
This week we are invited to pair up fiction and non-fiction books. I struggled to do this with books that I've read, so have included some from my TBR.
This week we are invited to pair up fiction and non-fiction books. I struggled to do this with books that I've read, so have included some from my TBR.
Sisters of the Quantock Hills by Ruth Elwin Harris/Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
The fiction selection here is a series of books about four sisters centred around World War I (the first is The Silent Shore, or Sarah's Story in the US). Testament of Youth is the true story of Vera Brittain's experience in WWI, which I'm currently reading.
The Abbess of Whitby by Jill Dalladay/Aiden, Bede, Cuthbert by David Adam
The Abbess of Whitby is a fictionalized version of the story of Hilda of Whitby, which I found a very interesting read. The second book is one I have yet to read, but the three men whose lives it recounts lived also lived in Northumbria around Hild's time, and at least one of them appears as a character in The Abbess of Whitby, so it seems an appropriate pairing.
The Abbess of Whitby is a fictionalized version of the story of Hilda of Whitby, which I found a very interesting read. The second book is one I have yet to read, but the three men whose lives it recounts lived also lived in Northumbria around Hild's time, and at least one of them appears as a character in The Abbess of Whitby, so it seems an appropriate pairing.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen/Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England by Roy & Lesley Adkins
I could have chosen any Jane Austen book for this one really! Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England is
a fun look at what life was actually like during Jane Austen's
lifetime. I haven't yet read the whole thing, as it's a book that can be
easily dipped in and out of, but it's one I keep meaning to get back
to.
The Queen of Last Hopes by Susan Higginbotham/Lancaster and York by Alison Weir
The Queen of Last Hopes is a novel about Margaret of Anjou, wife to Henry VI, the Lancastrian king during the Wars of the Roses. So it fits well with a non-fiction book about the same time period. (I also enjoyed The Sunne in Splendour, but I think Lancaster and York only covers the period up to 1471, well before Richard III came to the throne, so it fits better with a book about Margaret and Henry.)
The Queen of Last Hopes is a novel about Margaret of Anjou, wife to Henry VI, the Lancastrian king during the Wars of the Roses. So it fits well with a non-fiction book about the same time period. (I also enjoyed The Sunne in Splendour, but I think Lancaster and York only covers the period up to 1471, well before Richard III came to the throne, so it fits better with a book about Margaret and Henry.)
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