fdholt's 2011 non-fiction challenge

I am planning on listing my non-fiction books here as well as part of my total reading on Book of the month club so some items will be cross posted:
http://www.librarything.com/groups/bookofthemonthclub

I am also in the Alphabet challenges for 2011 http://www.librarything.com/topic/112064
and Dewey decimal challenge (for my lifetime!)
http://www.librarything.com/topic/112013

January-June 2011

All books listed here are reviewed unless noted

The best places you've never seen : Pennsylvania's small museums : a traveler's guide by Therese Boyd
Paradise screwed by Carl Hiaasen
The extra 2% by Jonah Keri (LTER)
British samplers by Jane Toller
The divided mind by John E. Sarno
The age of wonder by Richard Holmes
Napoleon’s buttons by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
Introducing RDA by Chris Oliver
Take time for paradise by A. Bartlett Giamatti (LTER)
Comfort healing and joy by David Fox (LTMG)
To be or not to be ... pain-free : the mindbody syndrome by Marc Sopher
When blue meant yellow : how colors got their names by Jeanne Heifetz
Millennial mythmaking edited by Perlich and Whitt (LTER)
Our hidden heritage : Pennsylvania women in history edited by Janice McElroy
Uproot U.S. healthcare by Deane Waldman (LTMG)
Heal your body by Louise L. Hay
Stan Musial : an American life by George Vecsey (LTER)
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
A boomer’s guide to chronic pain by Michael J. Kaye (LTMG)
Why we can’t wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
The canon by Natalie Angier
The story of utopias by Lewis Mumford
The mindbody prescription by John E. Sarno
The life and times of Jacob Albright by Kenneth R. Good
This is the way I pass my time : a book about Pennsylvania German hand towels by Ellen J. Gehret
Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans by Tandy and Charles Hersh
Here in this garden : schoolgirl samplers of Berks County by Kathryn Lesieur

July-December 2011

All books listed here are reviewed unless noted

In the land of invented languages : a celebration of linguistic creativity, madness, and genius by Arika Okrent
Remembering Sinatra : a life in pictures by Robert Sullivan
American College of Sports Medicine complete guide to fitness & health edited by Barbara Bushman (LTER)
Facades by William J. Cunningham
The Archimedes codex by Reviel Netz and William Noel
Purpose-centered public speaking : how to develop and deliver purposeful talks, speeches, and presentations with less fear and more confidence by Gary Rodriguez (LTMG)
Where will you go from here? : moving forward when life doesn't go as planned by Valorie Burton (LTER)
Killing Lincoln : the shocking assassination that changed America forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (LTER)
How to lie with statistics by Darrell Huff
If Marie did it, so can I! by Donna F. LaMar (LTMG)
100 major chess upsets of 2010 edited by Bill Harvey (LTMG)
The elements : a visual exploration of every known atom in the universe by Theodore Gray
The English mediæval town by Colin Platt
Mate in 2s from historic and modern chess games edited by Bill Harvey (LTMG)
The last icon : Tom Seaver and his times by Steven Travers (LTER)
The stuff of a lifetime by Gene Ruyle
Bucketfoot Al : the baseball life of Al Simmons by Clifton Blue Parker

I read This is the way I pass my time for the Go review that book group. It was a fascinating look at a needlework tradition that has passed. See my review here.

It sparked an intense week where I tried to stitch several of the examples and read 2 more books on the subject as well as reviewing a chart of an old sampler designed and stitched by a distant relative; then reworked, corrected and stitched by me a few years ago.

The other 2 books: Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans by Tandy Hersh review here
and Here in this garden : schoolgirl samplers of Berks County by Kathryn Lesieur review here

The chart: Sarah Boone school sampler by Catharine Weidner the review here

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