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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2022-07-11 06:35 pm

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Nonfiction topics

[personal profile] philstar22 2022-07-11 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
What nonfiction topics interest you? Whether you read books about it in your spare time, hunt for websites, listen to podcasts or whatever. Just, topics that you like learning more about.
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Re: Nonfiction topics

[personal profile] philstar22 2022-07-11 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been super interested in volcanoes and Tsarist Russia since I was a kid. Also space-related things, especially other planets. And anything about cats, whether domestic or wild. And penguins.

Oh, and mythology. Especially non-Greek/Roman/Norse ones that are less well-known.
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Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-11 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I love everything I read about Ancient Egypt. That place is just wild.
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Re: Nonfiction topics

[personal profile] philstar22 2022-07-11 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Ancient Egypt really is fascinating.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-11 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here! I had so many books about Ancient Egypt when I was a kid. I was particularly fascinated by King Tut and I legit teared up when I went to see the exhibit featuring the treasures from his tomb.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-11 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Royal families (especially the Romanovs), geisha/maiko, women’s fashion from the 18th to the 20th century, folk dances from around the world, and dolls.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-11 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I mostly read like,,, literary criticism and media theory. Also, queer history. I mostly listen to other history topics in podcast form though.

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(Anonymous) 2022-07-11 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Who are your favorite literary critics? Or ones you would recommend, I guess.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-11 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The history of jewelry, all kinds from around the world and from every time. I love Neolithic European beads and pre-Columbian jade, modern memento mori and Ghanan goldwork, Native American silver and turquoise, tribal beadwork from the Philippines and Africa, and netsuke and ojime (not technically jewelry I know but in the same ballpark as finely carved gemstone beads imo). I feel similarly about clothes and costumes and loved those old paperback picture books on period costumes.
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Re: Nonfiction topics

[personal profile] kallanda_lee 2022-07-11 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Are there any sources you recommend when not yet familiar but interested in the subject?
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Re: Nonfiction topics

[personal profile] kallanda_lee 2022-07-11 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I like things like linguistics, (art) history, and travel related stuff.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-11 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
History. To be more specific, I guess, history of religion, history of modernization and modernity, cultural history, history of liberalism and pre-WW2 politics, long 19th century. Probably other stuff I'm not thinking of.
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Re: Nonfiction topics

[personal profile] kaijinscendre 2022-07-11 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
True crime. Loved it as a teenager. But my interest in it waned until podcast became a thing.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-11 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Mythologies from places around the world that I've never heard about because my schooling only covered Greek/Roman, and how that informed their cultural practices.

Pirates and Age of Sail. Not embellished, though, I don't need the Game of Thrones Bad-Take version. FFS the real truths were crazy enough.

Sengoku-era history, speaking of real facts in history that were also bugnuts crazy.

Birds, plants, trees, and stars. I've worn my astronomy books thin, I need more.

I like my history broad - a topic for focus, such as an era, a country, a cultural movement, etc, but not so narrow as a single person's biography.

Oh, and clothing/garment/fashion history. Yall, the topic of sumptuary laws is fascinating.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-12 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Do games count? The kind that barely has any plot?

Other than that, aromatherapy comes to mind. Fashion to an extent. Interior design or rather design in general. Psychology (would hope so, considering it's my degree lol). Maybe cats even though I am not an owner.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-12 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
I like reading about disasters. Like failed Everest expeditions, ships sinking, volcano eruptions, etc. Preferably recent enough to have eye witness descriptions. I suppose it's rather morbid but it just interests me.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-12 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
The history of food! Especially when they tie into how this particular food has evolved across and with various cultures. It's so fun.

Re: Nonfiction topics

(Anonymous) 2022-07-12 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Specific topics: Egyptian history, ocean life/creatures and ancient/lost civilizations.

More generally, I'm really into politics and true crime.
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Re: Nonfiction topics

[personal profile] tabaqui 2022-07-12 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
I really enjoy reading about the history of the Vietnam war, and all the surrounding cultural 'stuff' that was happening - civil rights, the ERA, disability rights, the Black Panthers, the Stonewall Riots, drug culture, music culture - all the huge changes that started happening right after WWII and continued for the next three and four decades. That's the most interesting time in history, for me, in the US, at least.

I also really love reading about anything space. Exoplanets and how we know anything about them, dark matter, asteroids and comets and meteors, how space ships work and space stations and rockets, how we can figure out what a galaxy 100 million light years away is like, how the moons and rings of Saturn formed, how our *own* moon formed, our own planet...all of that is so fucking amazing.