Here is my December TBR. Yes, I know it is much shorter than usual, but I am focused on getting what I need to read for the Good Reads challenge and the Natural History book reading challenge. It may change as inevitably library books that I have out, get reserved by others…
Reading Through The Year
A Poem for Every Night of the Year Allie Esiri
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year – Susie Dent
Finishing Off (Still!)
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre – Tim Hannigan
Blog Tour
None this month!
Challenge Books
The last six for the nature reading challenge:
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain – Anita Sethi
Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky – Sarah Gibson
The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus – Michael McCarthy, Peter Marren, Jeremy Mynott
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us – Nick Hayes
The Overstory – Richard Powers
True North – Gavin Francis
Review Books
What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking – Rupert Callender
West Cumbria Mining: The Silence Between The Shadows – David Banning
Smelling the Breezes: A Journey through the High Lebanon in 1957 – Ralph Izzard & Molly Izzard
The Wheel of the Year: A Nurturing Guide to Rediscovering Nature’s Seasons and Cycles – Rebecca Beattie
On Travel and the Journey Through Life – Ed. Barnaby Rogerson
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales For Christmas Nights – Ed. Tanya Kirk (Kind of a Christmassy read…)
Library
Who knows this month? All the books I had planned to read were passed as I had five other reservations!
Big Books
When I have finished the Good Reads challenge, I like to start on some big books that I don’t always get around to reading in other months with the intention of finishing them in January. I have some huge books to get through from the library and review copies and these are some that I am going to pick from:
Gnomon – Nick Harkaway
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Endurance and Exploration – Ed. Levison Wood
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain – John Grindrod
Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
The Night Lies Bleeding – M.D. Lachlan
Hunted – G X Todd
Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson
Thin Air – Richard Morgan
Shadow Captain – Alastair Reynolds
Horizon – Barry Lopez
The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall – Mark W. Moffett
The Warehouse – Rob Hart
The Cruel Stars – John Birmingham
The Solar War – A.G. Riddle
Cage of Souls – Adrian Tchaikovsky
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation – Ken Liu
The Border – A Journey Around Russia: Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, … Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage – Erika Fatland Tr. Kari Dickson
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit – Philip Stephens
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation – Edward Glaeser, David Cutler
The Serpent Coiled in Naples – Marius Kociejowski
From Utmost East to Utmost West: My life of exploration and adventure – John Blashford-Snell
Any that you have heard of or like the sound of? Let me know in the comments below
Paul, it has been a long time since I posted #WorldFromMyArmchair review…last one was in 2020! But good news: I’m reading a book by Danish author Dorthe Nors about the Danish coastline. It made me think I should make a reading list for 2023 and visit all the beautiful places on earth! I see a few good books on this list…the only one I’ve heard about is “The Serpent Coiled in Napels”. Sounds interesting. I will find you again on GR…and follow. Looking forward to your “end-of-year” wrap-up with your best suggestions for my coming year! PS: Great match last night in Qatar Wales-ENG 0-3. I watched USA-Iran…it was a nail biter and now I’m sure the Dutch team will have their work cut out for them to try and win from USA. It’s a young team…ambitious, daring and plenty of players who can sprint after a counter! Prediction: finale will be Brazil – France…that will be a real ripper!
Good to hear from you again, Nancy. Hope you’re keeping well at the moment. I am not really following the football, more keeping one eye on it to see how we’re doing. There have been some upsets so far!
Well, you’ve missed some sensational upsets!! Germany kicked off their 2022 FIFA World Cup group campaign with a loss to Japan…that’s gotta sting ‘“unsure manschaft”!
Duitsland ist raus! Die Mannschaft ist zuhause…
I heard that!
I’m looking forward to seeing what you think about The Travel Tribe. You have some hefty tomes to get through, too – the Sethi took me a while and the Nick Hayes is quite long but fascinating. Happy reading!
I have only read a tiny bit before getting distracted by lots of other books!