Non-fiction and especially history should not be deadly dull. Image via Pixabay.
Good range of topics tonight, I think.
Definitely covers the spectrum (well, okay, I left novel writing out but another time perhaps!).
Facebook – General
What is on your to be read list? I have a mixture of history (fiction and non-fiction), fantasy, crime, P.G.Wodehouse, biographies – and that’s just on my Kindle.
Still, it is always good to have plenty of wonderful material to read and I’m in no danger of running out anytime soon.
Logically then you might feel the last thing I need is more books. Get out of it.
Logic does not come into it when it comes to buying books. A title/story (and I include non-fiction in this) grips you and you want to read it as soon as you can or not as the case may be. Therefore, you have to buy!
Well, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Looking forward to the Chandler’s Ford Book Fair on Saturday!
My Bridge House Publishing/Cafelit/Chapeltown Books works to date. Image by Allison Syme
Looking forward to the Book Fair on Saturday. I buy books as well as write them! Image from Catherine Griffin (Chandler’s Ford Writers’ Hub).
Says it all really and applies to non-fiction equally as fiction. Image via Pixabay.
Facebook – From Light to Dark and Back Again
Making progress on what I hope will be my second book. I suppose another thing I love about flash fiction is it also easy to write almost anywhere. Naturally, I keep notebooks and pens in my bag but am increasingly using my mobile phone for this kind of thing.
I love using Evernote to scribble down ideas and stories when I’m on trains etc. Really useful program and I can share contents to different places so I know I will always have at least one back up. I’m using the free version of Evernote at the moment but like it a lot.
Nice to be able to use it to take pictures, which I have done. Have not used the audio function as I prefer to write stories, rather than dictate them. Good to have the option though!
And it remains my big hope that flash fiction as a whole will tempt people who are reluctant readers (you’re not asking them to commit to a big read all in one go).
Also, I hope it will encourage those who feel they don’t have enough time to read to realise well actually you do. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. And flash fiction is the answer when it comes to providing a quick read!
Goodreads Blog – Favourite Non-Fiction
My favourite non-fiction is usually history, based on an era I know reasonably well, but which then goes on to show me aspects I had NOT known.
A good example of this is The Maligned King by Annette Carson, who re-assesses Richard III’s reign and uses source materials to do so. It is a fascinating read.
I like the whole Wars of the Roses history (though thankful not to have lived through it!) but the story of Richard and the “did he or didn’t he?” motif is a particular favourite.
There is so much material here I had not heard of and there has been an update to the book recently given the discovery of the King in the now infamous Leicester car park. I had the original book in hardback, the update gave me the perfect excuse to download it to Kindle!
I am, of course, open to reading about other eras I know less about but, given limited reading time, I “target” my reading accordingly. Why is there never enough time to read as much as you’d like?
Personal history can often be found in things like old exercise books, which in turn reveal things about political history and how much people knew at the time. Image via Pixabay.
Allison Symes: Collected Works 