Nonfiction November and NovellasinNovember 2025: recap

Posted on November 28, 2025 by WordsAndPeace

#NonficNov
#NovNov25

November is always a super busy month for book bloggers, and I only participate in three events!
Yesterday, I published my recap for #scifimonth, so here is one today for Nonfiction November and Novellas in November.

I actually only read 1 nonfiction (which was a novella size), and a total of 4 novellas.
I reviewed a total of 5 nonfiction:

Non nonfiction novellas:

I published a total of 11 posts for this event.
Here is the list of those that were not book reviews:

I added only 1 novella to my TBR in November. It’s a vintage French scifi:

Both were great events, thanks to all our hosts!

📚📚📚

HOW WAS YOUR NONFICTION and NOVELLA MONTH?

Save

Book review: The Secret Life of the Owl

Posted on November 26, 2025 by WordsAndPeace

📚 The Secret Life of the Owl,
by John Lewis-Stempel
Nonfiction / Birds / Nature
2017
88 pages
Counts for #Nonficnov
And for #NovellasinNovember

I love birds and nature, and I have a lot of bird books on my TBR.

#Nonficnov and #NovellasinNovember was a great opportunity to read The Secret Life of the Owl.

Click to continue reading

Nonfiction November 2025: New to my TBR

Posted on November 24, 2025 by WordsAndPeace

#NonficNov
Click on the logo to see the detailed schedule

Our hosts for NONFICTION NOVEMBER 2025:
Heather – Based on a True Story
Frances – Volatile Rune
Liz – Adventures in Reading, Running and Working from Home
Rebekah – She Seeks Nonfiction
Deb – Readerbuzz

Here is the topic for Week 4 (11/24-30):

NEW TO MY TBR

Hosted by Deb @ Readerbuzz

Description:
It’s been a month full of amazing nonfiction books!
Which ones have made it onto your TBR?
Be sure to link back to the original blogger who posted about that book!

📚📚📚

Some readers do buying bans. I’m on the verge of doing a “add to my TBR” ban.
It may not seem significant, but I even recently got rid of a bunch, and am down to 1,755!
So I was very strict, and only added two nonfiction books to my TBR during Nonficnov. Applaude here please, lol.

The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire, by Bart Van Loo
Translated from the Dutch
History
2018/2021
608 pages

“Bart van Loo’s epic history of the dukedom of Burgundy has the grip of a great historical novel and the fascination of a wonderful factual narrative.”

I am from Burgundy, and love history, and time has come to revisit my history!
My library has it on audio, so I’ll probably listen to it.

It was recommended by NancyEllin.
Not sure what happened though, her website is gone. I tried to reach out to her by email, but she didn’t answer.

📚

Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power, by Rebecca Solnit
Essays / History / Politics
2004
192 pages

“With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next.”

I just reviewed another collection of essays by Solnit, Orwell’s Roses, so in a comment, Lisa recommended this one.

📚📚📚

Which books did you add to your TBR during Nonfiction November?
By the way, the month is not over,
and I’m planning to review one more nonfiction before the end of the month.