Non-Fiction (General) Round Up: December 2020 and Yearly Wrap Up
Hello Fabulous Readers of 2020! Let’s talk about the year that was — literarily speaking anyway… As we often note, Non-Fiction & Poetry are an unlikely pairing and the reviews for these genres are sometimes on the smaller side compared to other popular ones on...
Non-Fiction (General) Round Up: November 2020
Being Non-Fiction November there was, as can be expected, an array of titles and subject matters covered in this month’s reviews. It was great to see. I’ve highlighted a few in particular from each general non-fiction category that appeared and it speaks to the broadness and diversity of the genre, ranging from the literary to books about climate change to self-help titles.
Non-Fiction (General) Round Up: October 2020
Since our round up includes both non-fiction and poetry it is perhaps inevitable that one of the persistent undercurrents will be the closeness of the personal and the political. Many of the reviews this month fall under this category in some way. They are books that are genre-resistant, boundary-pushing pieces of collective art or culturally responsive writing that imbue the tensely political climate of the times with raw emotion and beautiful expressions of social critique.
