Lost in My Library

One of my goals for 2017 is to read more nonfiction. Actually, one of my goals for every year is to read more nonfiction. I'll admit that I haven't been off to a great start - I've finished a grand total of zero nonfiction books since September - but to be fair, I've been doing a lot of required nonfiction readings for class. But I don't want that to stop me from extra reading! I want to be a history or American Studies major, so a lot of the nonfiction that I want to read is history. But there are a few that aren't! Here's a (by no means complete) list of my top priority nonfiction TBR. ROARING CAMP by Susan Lee Johnson: A couple of days ago in my history lecture, my professor briefly went over the complexities of race relations in California in the time of westward expansion. I was really intrigued - I'm from California, so I'd learned a lot about that time in elementary school, but those kinds of things were definitely glossed ov...

Title: How To Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much Author: Samantha Ellis Series: N/A Length: 264 pages Published by: Vintage Books Publication date: January 2, 2014 Diversity: Author is Iraqi and Jewish Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ My first progress update from this book was "I've only read the introduction so far but I think I'm in love ." I didn't quite sustain that absolute adoration, but this was still a pretty amazing book that made me want to go out and read ALL of the classics that I've missed. I was surprised that I've only read ONE of the eleven main heroines (Lizzy Bennet) , though I 'd al so read some that weren't focused on as much. This book i s half memoir, half feminist literary criticism. Yes, it's nonfiction, but don't let that turn you away from the book! This book was very accessible - and this i s coming from some one for whom nonfiction usually takes much longer to read than fiction...