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Current Non-Fiction reads

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: The Book of Mnemonic Devices by Rod L. Evans
For Hearing People Only by Matthew S. Moore and Linda Levitan
 
I have kept aside my earlier books and took up some other books. One is a book on diet titled FAT Balance. Another book is on communications between women and their men.
 
I'm reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. It's a great read, but I would like to read some more to get a better understanding of this man.

Could someone recommend me an un-biased book about Malcolm X, if such a thing is possible?
 
When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and its Deadly Wake, by Brian Hicks.
 
veniqe said:
I'm reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. It's a great read, but I would like to read some more to get a better understanding of this man.

Could someone recommend me an un-biased book about Malcolm X, if such a thing is possible?
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Columbia University has an impressive webpage about him. Might want to check there.:)
 
sparkchaser said:
I googled the Morro Castle to see what you were talking about. Sounds interesting.
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I've almost finished it and it's very fascinating but heartbreaking. I found it on my bookshelf--I have no idea hwere it came from. Maybe my mom? Funny how random books just show up. :)
 
The latest I read was Rubbish! The Archeology of Garbage by William Rathje and Cullen Murphy. It is a monograph on garbage from researchers at the University of Arizona.
 
I'm reading "Montaillou" by Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie. It deals with heretic trials in that village at the beginning of the 14th century. The special thing on this case is that the sources also contain statements and speeches from the poor farmers of Montaillou - voices that usually appear very seldom in historical sources.
 
Right now I'm reading Murder in the Heartland, a true-crime volume about a really disturbing murder in rural Missouri. You've probably heard of the case - a young pregnant woman was killed by an older woman who then cut the fetus out of the victim and tried to pass the baby off as her own.

What made me want to read this book was the fact that I read another true crime book - In Broad Daylight, I just started a thread about it in this forum - and it turns out both of these stranger-than-fiction killings happened in the same tiny, hole-in-the-road town in rural Missouri.

I'm also "reading" Jenna Jameson's autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, but only at home because I can't exactly be seen with it at work. But because of that I keep getting caught up in the books I read at work so I haven't read any of Jenna's book for weeks now. :(
 
Richard Benson - The Farm.

About the Benson family having to sell their farm in Yorkshire, having been wiped out by big businesses.
 
Just coming to the last chapter of Clean: An Unsanitised History Of Washing by Katherine Ashenburg. It's been quite a journey, from ancient Greece through the Roman baths, and into the Christian period where nobody bothered to wash, eventually to American where it was a moral offence not to give yourself a good scrub.
 
Twinkie, Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger (my journey to discover how the ingredients found in processed foods are grown, mined (yes, mined) and manipulated into what America eats.)
title sort of says it all, doesnt it?!
 
I'm currently reading Our Economic Morality by Harry F. Ward. The book was published shortly before the great depression and warned of a comping depression due to unprecedented wealth concentration, borrowing, and stagnant wages. It's very prophetic to read it now, considering what the obvious history was. I haven't read a lot about the "social gospel" ministers and advocates, but I'm getting more and more curious about them. Definitely a good read.
 
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