Nonfiction November - week 3

We have reached week 3 of Nonfiction November. This week is hosted by Liz at Adventures in reading, running and working from home and this week is all about pairing a nonfiction book with a fiction book.

Week 3 (11/11-11/15) Book Pairings: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. Maybe it's a historical novel and the real history in a nonfiction version, or a memoir and a novel, or a fiction book you’ve read and you would like recommendations for background reading. Or (because I’m doing this) two books on two different areas have chimed and have a link. You can be as creative as you like!

I always find this exercise rather difficult so let's see what I can come up with based on nonfiction books I have read this year.

One of the best nonfiction I read this year is Une été avec Homère by Sylvain Tesson. This is really not a difficult pairing because I will go with The Illiad by Homer.

Rivieran inom räckhåll, Med tåg till de bästa upplevelserna i södra Frankrike by Kristina Svensson och Maria Unde Westerberg/May. This is a practical book on how to go by train in Europe. This destination is the Riviera. Going by train being the theme, I came to think of Paul Theroux's excellent Riding the Iron Rooster about a train trip in China.

Another Swedish nonfiction about two of our famous authors Moa and Harry Martinsson. They had a relationship for some years and then became estranged. Vi drabbade samman med våra ödens hela bredd : författarparet Moa och Harry Martinson by Ebba Witt-Brattström. I pair it with one book for each of them. Mor gifter sig (My Mother Gets Married) by Moa Martinsson and Flowering Nettle by Harry Martinsson.

I leave it there, and I realised it was not that difficult at all.