These are the books I am hoping to read in August. I do have a week in Jersey and a long ferry trip over and back so am aiming to get some serious amounts of reading in.
Blog Tours
None – Hurrah!
Library Books
Between River and Sea, Encounters in Israel and Palestine by Dervla Murphy
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
White Mountain: Real And Imagined Journeys In The Himalayas by Robert Twigger
Viva South America!: A Journey Through A Restless Continent by Oliver Balch
On the Road to Babadag by Andrzej Stasiuk Tr. Michael Kandel
#20BooksOfSummer
Limits of the Known by David Roberts
Just Another Mountain by Sarah Jane Douglas
Everest England: 29,000 Feet in 12 Days by Peter Owen Jones
For Love & Money by Jonathan Raban
Hunting Mister Heartbreak by Jonathan Raban
A Raindrop in the Ocean: The Extraordinary Life of a Global Adventurer by Michael Dobbs-Higginson
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do by Wallace J. Nichols
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water – The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century by Fred Pearce
Still Water: Reflections on the Deep Life of the Pond by John Lewis-Stempel
The Chronology Of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Review Books
Vickery’s Folk Flora: An A-Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants by Roy Vickery
The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds by Stephen Rutt
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
Tempest: An Anthology Edited by Anna Vaught & Anna Johnson
Still Water: Reflections on the Deep Life of the Pond by John Lewis-Stempel
The Many Lives of Carbon by Dag Olav Hessen, Tr. Kerri Pierce
The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers by Moritz Thomsen
The Book of Puka-Puka: A Lone Trader in the South Pacific by Robert Dean Frisbie
Irreplaceable: The Fight To Save Our Wild Places by Julian Hoffman
The Ancient Woods of the Helford River by Oliver Rackham
Wishful Thinking
As I Walked Out Through Spain in Search of Laurie Lee by P. D. Murphy
My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure by Alastair Humphreys
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Oh, you’re reading The Seafarers, too? My Shiny review comes out this week and I’ll share thoughts on it then but I really enjoyed it and rated it very highly.
Thought it was very good too, but didn’t quite have the oomph to make it five stars. Not sure why though.
Ah, that’s where I commented about Seafarers! Doh! Yes, I think I’d give it 4.5 stars if I gave it stars, also not sure why.