All Nonfiction This Week

My cousin recently did a survey on her blog about her readers' reading habits away from the blogging world. One of the questions she asked was whether we read more fiction or nonfiction after starting a blog. I responded that I have preferred nonfiction since graduating college. I'm trying to get back into fiction, but it's so hard to read in segments. I prefer to read it in a single sitting and if I can't, then I avoid it altogether.

Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands - Michael Chabon; "The 16 essays in Chabon's first collection of nonfiction celebrate horror stories, comic art and science fiction, what he calls "the boundary lines . . . the secret shelves between the sections in the bookstore" where literature meets genre. Several autobiographical essays shed light on the origins of some of Chabon's novels."

The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant - Robert Sullivan; "Thoreau, we are told, is like an online blogger; sheet-music ballads are the MP3 downloads of their day; Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, is like a reality TV show; and finally, this doozy: To put it in contemporary electronic terms, nature is your hard drive."