MJ Nonfiction in English

I'm aiming at 10 categories of 10 books each, and expect that there will be plenty left over for my overflow challenge.

General statistics are at http://www.librarything.com/topic/141224

Statistics:
New books 69
Library books 31
Second hand books 29
Rereads 13
Gutenberg 8

Finished categories
!Needlework
!Arts and Crafts
!Biography
!Travel and History UK
!Christian Theology
!Non-Christian
!History and travel - non-UK
!Food
!Education, language
Other nonfiction (includes science)

Science http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3804767

Arts and Crafts http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3808078

Needlework http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3808080

Travel and History http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3830685

Theology http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3847106

Food http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3879521

Austria http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3934106

Education, etc. http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3940339

Biography http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3943714

Survival http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3934607

Other http://www.librarything.com/topic/145072#3871274

!Arts and Crafts

1 Provenance
2 Bluff your way in music
3 Stitch, cloth, paper & paint
4 Japanese design motifs
5 Des Pawson's Knot Craft
6 Whitby Jet
7 Medieval garments reconstructed : Norse Clothing Patterns
8 Textiles and clothing, c.1150-c.1450
9 Ancient Egyptian and Greek looms
10 Tailor-made, Handmade & Remade

!Needlework

1 Needlepoint from Start to Finish
2 Variety Book No.5
3 Needlepoint by design
4 The Bayeux tapestry embroiderers' story
5 Roses and flowering branches in counted cross-stitch
6 Cross Stitch, 3rd Series, DMC LIbrary
7 The new world of needlepoint
8 Crewelwork

Circular knitting workshop
The knitting answer book

Travel and history

1 Little Known Facts about India
2 A small place (Antigua)
3 Iceland : its scenes and sagas
4 A girl's ride in Iceland
5 10,000 Km on the Indian Highways
6 The Caliph's House (Casablanca)
7 The horse boy
8 Pam on the Map: Switzerland

!1 The last shepherds (UK)
2 Steam railways explained
3 The Industrial Revolution explained
4 Georgette Heyer's Regency world
5 Lincoln : History and Guide
6 Windmills and waterwheels explained
7 The Victorian city
8 A Canterbury pilgrimage
9 English place names explained
10 Brodsworth hall and gardens

The War of 1812
A Treasury of New England folklore
True tales of American life

Theology

Anglican
1 English churches explained
2 Parochial and plain sermons vol VII
3 Embroidery at Bath Abbey
4 "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays

Other Christian
1 The Cambridge history of early Christian literature
2 Jesus and Judaism
3 The devils of Loudun
4 Just love
5 Beasts of the field
6 Finding happiness : monastic steps for a fulfilling life

!Non-Christian
1 The Cambridge companion to classical Islamic theology
2 Islam for dummies
3 Who speaks for Islam?
4 The great transformation
5 The philosophy of Hebrew scripture
6 An introduction to Mormonism
7 Holiness : rabbinic Judaism and the Graeco-Roman world
8 The Jesus connection : to triumph over anti-Semitism
9 Beyond belief : my secret life inside Scientology and my harrowing escape
10 Buddhist ethics

Other

1 How to be idle
2 Autism : a very short introduction
3 The human touch
4 The Situation is Hopeless but not Serious
5 Horrible Geography of the World
6 iPad for Seniors
7 The CEO of the sofa (Humour?)
8 The ghost map
9 Science's most wanted the top 10 book of outrageous innovators, deadly…
10 Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

!Food

1 Claire's Corner Copia cookbook
2 Delia's vegetarian collection
3 Healthy Bakes & Cupcakes
4 James Wong's Homegrown Revolution (Garden)
5 Yes, chef (Biography)
6 Potatoes : from gnocchi to mash
7 Slice of life
8 Food Glorious Food
9 Science in the kitchen
10 Kitchen : recipes from the heart of the home

Survival
Moved to overflow http://www.librarything.com/topic/145075#4375447

!Education, Language, reading

1 Teaching English, language and literacy
2 What great teachers do differently
3 The comic English grammar
4 Dictionary of true etymologies
5 Bluestockings
6 The baby in the mirror : a child's world from birth to three
7 Shouting at the sky
8 Games, ideas and activities for primary literacy
9 The power of Babel : a natural history of language
10 Getting the Buggers to Read

!Biography and memoirs

1 Tolkien : man and myth
2 We always wore sailor suits
3 Swimming upstream
4 Winter king
5 Thomas Alva Edison : great American inventor
6 The red leather diary
7 I know why the caged bird sings
8 Snowball oranges
9 Dotter of her father's eyes
10 Once in a house on fire

more at http://www.librarything.com/topic/145075#4006304

Finished and closed
1 Arts and Crafts
2 Needlework
3 Travel and History, nonUK
4 Food
5 Biography
6 Christian Theology
7 other religion
8 Education, etc.

Finished, not closed
1 Travel and history UK (6,8)

open
Science (4)
Other (7)
Austria (1)
{Survival (9)}
Women (2)

Education etc will fill.
Theology will take a bit more effort to split. It's the non-Christian that I need to concentrate on. Extra Christian is not a problem, as I can probably fill one in overflow.
I can probably read enough narrowboat stuff to do the other split.

BTW This doesn't match the list in the first post, as I have combined some categories there.

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Done. Still fiddling a bit, to sharpen the categories. By the end of the month this should be solid.

November

The theology books look VERY interesting!

Most of them were. A very mixed bag, but mostly interesting. Add in the German, and books listed in other categories, and I read a lot Theology this year: https://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?tag=Theology&offset=0&view=Mart.... In German I still have a few to go on gender issues. In English I expect to add four commentaries on John in about a week. (When I finish working my way through it in Greek.)

German is on my language learning list. How did you come across German? Are you a native speaker?

As for Greek, I know what you mean. It was hell to learn but now it pays off immensely. I am reading parts of The Odyssey for my Greek reading course next term and I cannot wait.

No, I'm English mother tongue, but when I had to choose a language at the beginning of High School, the choices were French or German, and almost everyone chose French, so, of course I wanted German. We moved after a yead, and for the same reason I also ended up with two years each of Latin and Spanish. At the end of High School, of the three languages, I knew the most German.

I like German, and fell in love with Vienna at first sight, and still love the city over 40 years later, most of them spent here.

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