Comments on: What Nonfiction and Fiction Books Go Well Together?

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 02:47:26 +0000

I love your pairings! I am late to commenting and, honestly, at this point my TBR is never ending but I had to add the I Didn’t Sign Up for This to my list.

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:40:57 +0000

Great pairings! Thank you so much!

By: Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out

Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 07:01:25 +0000

A thoughtful selection of pairings, thanks for sharing

By: Kate @ booksaremyfavouriteandbest

Kate @ booksaremyfavouriteandbest — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:52:11 +0000

Great combos – will be adding Didn’t Sign Up for This to the TBR stack.

By: Lory @ Entering the Enchanted Castle

Lory @ Entering the Enchanted Castle — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 07:49:27 +0000

Very interesting pairings. I note that in several of your examples, the power of fiction is that it can help us to use our imaginations to vividly bring alive a suboptimal situation we may resist facing in ordinary life. Meanwhile, the nonfiction equivalent helps us to use our capacities for reason and understanding to conceive of a way through that. I don’t usually like depressing fiction, but I can see a purpose for it this way.

By: Michele Morin

Michele Morin — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:09:29 +0000

What a great post!
Your therapy pairing makes me wonder if you have read Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb.

By: Linda Stoll

Linda Stoll — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:49:11 +0000

oh Lisa, I love this series of book posts you’ve gathered together. i’ve bookmarked them and will return some evening, feet up, hot cocoa in hand to sit with this huge bounty of work you’ve pulled together.

so outstanding! thank you for continuing to speak into my reading life. i haven’t even begun to analyze this year’s reads. soon though …

By: Gail

Gail — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:36:36 +0000

A great idea, and I enjoyed seeing the pairings.

By: LisaNotes

LisaNotes — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:49:22 +0000

In reply to David.

In the book, she was a renegade therapist because had gotten kicked out of practicing traditional therapy, so she went out to practice making up her own rules.

Thanks for sharing about Mason & Dixon. I really don’t even know the story behind the Mason-Dixon line, and it seems like something I should know. 🙂

By: Donna Connolly

Donna Connolly — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:16:31 +0000

I love this non-fiction/fiction pair up. What a very clever idea!