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Truth in Fiction Reading Challenge

December18

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I’m trying to read more non-fiction books and have several on my 2012 reading list. The idea of seeing how these relate to novels is a fun idea, so I was intrigued by The Truth in Fiction Challenge, hosted by Amanda over at The Fig and Thistle.

The goal of the challenge is to read a specified number of book pairs that are comprised of one fiction book and one related non-fiction book. Amanda encourages us to think outside of the box; the non-fiction book could also be journals, letters, memoirs, etc…. The pairs needn’t be exact matches, although there should be an easily detectable common thread.

The catch: Instead of individual reviews, after each book pair I must write a joint review. For example, if I read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and then The Journals of Sylvia Plath then my review post will be focused on both books.

I’m unsure of exactly how many pairs I’ll be able to put together, but I’m committing to the Junior level of 3 pairs. Watch me have fun!

1. The Secret River and Searching for the Secret River, both by Kate Grenville


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“Truth in Fiction Reading Challenge”

  1. On December 19th, 2011 at 7:35 am Whispering Gums Says:

    Oh, if I did challenges I’d almost be prepared to do this one. A great pair is Kate Grenville’s The secret river and her Searching for The secret river in which she chronicles her research, how she started writing it as a non-fiction work and then decided to write it as fiction. It’s a great read.

  2. On December 19th, 2011 at 10:55 am Debbie Says:

    Thank you for the great idea, Sue. I really didn’t have anything in mind for this one, just trusting that things would come along. And see – they did!

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