Well I like reading about Queen's and princess's! I read Queen Noor's book. I even read Benazir Bhutto's book. I also read about Princess Diana, and Queen Elizabeth I, and Jackie Kennedy. And Princess Sultana, and some book about an Iranian princess during the Pahlavi's time- I forgot the name.
One of my favorite books is "all things wild and wonderful" by Kobie Kruger. It tells the story of her family's adventures in living in South Africa because her husband is a game warden. One day her husband brings home an orphan lion, and raising the lion becomes a major part of the story. It's a true story!
RedVelvet, you should read some nonfiction here and there too- it's a fun cateogry of books too! I used to just read fiction and classics (like Hard Times *, Wuthering Heights, Ethan Frome)-- but one of my little brothers always reads nonfiction, and he would tell us stories from them, and it was always exciting to hear...That's how I fell in love with nonfiction!
I admit that I enjoy fiction more so than non-fiction. Actually, **fiction **tends to be **more popular **than non-fiction especially with women. Boys/men, on the other hand, tend to prefer **non-fiction **to fiction. I know this because I'm a reading teacher. Reading is my field of specialization, LOL. And as a reading teacher, I know the importance of mixing it up.....and incorporating a variety of reading materials of all types of genres from fiction to non-fiction.
I have read several non-fiction books. And I get almost a daily dose of non-fiction reading from surfing the Internet. I enjoy reading biographies and and other non-fiction. Recently I read the Maya Angelou biographies which are written in novel format and are fun to read. It feels like you're reading a story more than a biography. The first book by Maya Angelou in her biographical series, called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a very good book.
Other biographies that I've enjoyed are The Diary of Anne Frank, The Color of Water, Surviving Hitler, Chinese Cinderella, Falling Leaves, and Blasphemy (a Pakistani story based on a true account with the names changed).
With my students I use a book called The Wild Side, Bizarre Endings. This book was so awesome, I took it home to read myself. It has true stories of vanishings, missing-person cases, gruesome crimes, and ironies. And I also enjoyed the other series, Heroes, where in a fun way you learn about the lives of Gandhi, Florence Nightingale, Einstein, what have you.
I appreciate the suggestions. I'll look into them. As far as Princess Diana is concerned, I've seen several movies/documentaries based on her:) She was known as the People's Princess and the public felt more of an attachment to her.......and although I don't think she was perfect......I feel she made more humanitarian efforts, was down to earth, and was wronged in some ways.*