Julia- The Dancing Plague

I forgot to put a BUNCH of stuff in this video.
-Next week I am reading Graceling by Kristin Cashore
-John Waller's has a storyteller's style while also being very scholarly (there are about 50 pages of endnotes and citations). It reads almost like fiction with dramatic chapter endings. It would really be easy for someone who didn't read a lot of non-fiction to enjoy this book.
-I read this book in two days and I ended up doing a lot of thinking about how people devour great non-fiction books and great fiction books in similar ways but for different reasons. In fiction books, we become immersed in the world and emotionally involved. In non-fiction books (excluding memoirs and the such) it is more of a thirst for knowledge which drives us and I think that is wonderful that knowledge can be just as much an incentive to read as enjoyment or a world to escape into.

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Education

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