Day: December 30, 2016
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December 30, 2016
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
“The best nonfiction books add up to a biography of our culture.” – Robert McCrum
It is difficult to determine what falls within the bounds of the nonfiction genre. Can we include cookbooks or dictionaries? Reading the dictionary is certainly a different type of reading than a chapter book or a textbook. And yet, all of these are meant to give us a better understanding of factual information.