The Non-Fiction Book Club of India

Community for non-fiction readers.

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Our book club's reading activities for 2022:

#9NFBooksChallenge2022 : to read 9 non-fiction books (at least 2 of them written by Indian authors)

#NFGroupReading : Our pick this year is 'The Anthropocene Reviewed' by @johngreen

Happy Reading!

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"The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition."

~bell hooks, all about love: new visions

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

For example, when choosing which movie to watch or what book to read, are you drawn to proven classics or the newest big thing? In my opinion, it is smarter to choose the great over the new. #principleoftheday

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Jaane meri jaaneman The Alchemist is NOT a non-fiction book re. 🙏🥺

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Continuing with the 30 minutes of silent reading sessions on Clubhouse this week. Today few of us are going to start reading the book Humankind by Rutger Bregman, as part of 2021's #NFGroupReading . Others will read their respective non-fiction books. Join us at 7PM. Link in bio.

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"Paradoxically, too much information is an obstacle in front of true knowledge. Knowledge requires reading. Books. In-depth analysis."

~ Elif Shafak, How To Stay Sane In An Age of Division

[Anuja Dasnurkar @AnujaDasnurkar]

Thanks to @thenfbci finally getting some reading done specifically for non-fiction! 🥳

[Anuja Dasnurkar @AnujaDasnurkar]

#NowReading with @thenfbci 🥳

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Hellooo, we are on @Clubhouse too!
Join in for NF reading parties, group reading sessions and virtual bookclub meetups:

https://t.co/5Iagiw4OZ4

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Great idea. Reading a good non-fiction book only once is just not enough. Spaced repetition needs to be applied if we are trying to internalize the concepts from those books.

[Krittika Kuhar @krittikakuhar]

Planning to re-read the impactful books I read in 2019 and 2020 in 2021 for better assimilation.

#ReadingWithPurpose

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"If you go to the library and there's a book you cannot understand, you have to dig down and say, "What is the foundation required for me to learn this?" Foundations are super important."

~ The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

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Non-fiction books from April #21NFBooksChallenge :

- 10 Judgements That Changed India by Zia Mody

- How To Stay Sane In An Age Of Division by Elif Shafak

- The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony

- Lost Connections by Johann Hari

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

A lot of people worry that they can’t remember what they read from a book. They forget this is not a textbook and there’s no exam to give.

Book’s task is to give you more perspectives. And humans rarely lose a newly acquired perspective if they are read with an open mind.

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"I find that I have 442 books, acquired in the following ways:
Bought (mostly second-hand): 251 Given to me or bought with book tokens: 33
Review copies and complimentary copies: 143
Borrowed and not returned: 10
Temporarily on loan: 5"

~ George Orwell, Books vs Cigarettes

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“Even when we’re in great distress, joy can still be found in moments we seize and moments we create. Cooking. Dancing. Hiking. Praying. Driving. Singing Billy Joel songs off-key. All of these can provide relief from pain."

~ Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, Option B

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Books are not meant to help you answer facts in those books. It’s totally OK if you feel that you don’t remember anything from the books you’ve read.

Books are meant to install new mental models in your mind, which help you look at the world with a slightly expanded perspective.

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"The moment we stop listening to diverse opinions is also when we stop learning. Because the truth is we don't learn much from sameness and monotony. We usually learn from differences."

~ Elif Shafak, How To Stay Sane In An Age Of Division

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“Albert [Einstein] was reading Kant and attending occasional lectures at the University of Pavia: for pleasure, without being registered there or having to think about exams. It is thus that serious scientists are made.”

~ Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

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Book recommendations from March #21NFBooksChallenge :

- Why we sleep by Matthew Walker

- A Corner Of A Foreign Field : The Indian History of a British Sport by Ramachandra Guha

- Let's Talk Money by Monika Halan

- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

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“What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest.”

~Nicholas Carr, The Shallows