Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: Great Soul of Siberia, by Sooyong Park (Amazon / Book Depository) Back in 2010, I read a book so good that even while I was reading it I knew it was going to be hard to top. It was around the time I was shifting to reading primarily nonfiction, and John Vaillant's The Tiger was influential in... Continue Reading →
Book review: Serpentine, by Thomas Thompson Serpentine is a long book but it doesn't actually read like one. The writing is detailed and engrossing, pulling a reader in from the start. The story is about Charles Sobrahj, a French national of Vietnamese and Indian parentage born in Saigon. He had a troubled early start and things... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg (Amazon / Book Depository) "We all have to work very hard and ignore those people who say we should not be here." So says a female Afghani politician, one of the subjects of Jenny Nordberg's eye-opening narrative nonfiction account of the practice of bacha posh in Afghanistan, The... Continue Reading →
Book review: Patient H.M. by Luke Dittrich (Amazon / Book Depository) Books like this don't come along every day. Patient H.M. is an extraordinary true story worked into an excellent piece of narrative nonfiction. At its core is the legendary patient whose 'broken' brain helped science understand more about how non-broken brains work, to borrow a line that... Continue Reading →
What's Nonfiction? 