I used to loathe reading nonfiction. I'll never forget when I was a freshman in Pre-AP World Geography and we had to read a nonfiction book + write an essay on that book. We got to pick our book from a list provided by our teacher, and even though we had choice in what we read, I still dreaded completing the assignment. I chose Alive by Piers Paul Read, a work that tells the story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed into the Andes mountains in the 1970s. Many of t