April was a slower reading month for some reason. I seemed to have a lot going on so didn’t get as much time to read as I would have liked. Such is life. I did read 11 in the end, thanks to two fairly short books at the end of the month! Anyway, here are the April, stats:
Books Read
Broken Country – Clare Leslie Hall – 2 Stars
Possessions: A Memoir Of Transformation In An Era Of Precarity – Davina Quinlivan – 3 Stars
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes – Robert Louis Stevenson – 3 Stars
Hemisphere – Pete Green – 3.5 Stars
Here Comes the Fun: A Year of Making Merry – Ben Aiken – 3.5 Stars
Terrible Maps – Michael Howe – 3.5 Stars
Tiny Experiments: How To Live Freely In A Goal-Obsessed World – Anne-Laure Le Cunff – 4 Stars
Roads To Santiago: Detours and Riddles in the Land and History of Spain – Cees Noteboom – 4.5 Stars
What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain – James Hamilton-Paterson – 4.5 Stars
Farewell to Russia: A Journey through the Former USSR – Joe Luc Barnes – 4.5 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Night Train To Odesa: Covering The Human Cost of Russia’s War – Jen Stout – 5 Stars
Top Genres
Travel – 14
Fiction – 7
Miscellaneous – 5
Poetry – 4
Natural History – 3
Top Publishers
Longbarrow Press – 3
Bantam Press – 2
Icon Books – 2
Vintage – 2
Jonathan Cape – 2
Review Copies Received
None! Handy that I still have loads of others to read…
Library Books Checked Out
Radical Cartography: What Maps Tell Us About Who We Are – William Rankin
Tales Of The Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains – John Grindrod
Amuse Bouche: How To Eat Your Way Around France – Carolyn Boyd
Books Bought (Or Sent by Friends)
As I have said elsewhere, I am trying to buy fewer books. So I will give totals of l the number of books that enter my house and those that leave permanently. These are the figures for this month:
Books in: 17 I kept these below:
Mad Shepherds – L.P. Jacks
Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark – Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Faster, They’re Gaining – Peter Biddlecombe
Books out: 12 (The books leaving the house were sold, returned to the library or passed on to friends or charity. I am aiming for this number to be higher than the one above!!!). IT WASN”T ;-(
So, are there any from that list that you have read, or now seeing them, now want to read? Let me know in the comments below.
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