How are we finished with that year already? I was just getting the hang of it. Anyway, here is what I read in December:
Books Read
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding – Eoghan Daltun – 4 Stars
Oaklore – Jules Acton – 4 Stars
Foothold – Pam Zinnemann-Hope – 3 Stars
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow – Natasha Pulley – 2.5 Stars
Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land’s End – Ed. Joan Passey – 3 Stars
The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch – 3.5 Stars
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics – Tim Marshall – 3.5 Stars
A Year Of Garden Bees & Bugs: 52 stories of intriguing insects – Dominic Couzens & Gail Ashton – 4 Stars
Prisoners of Geography: The Quiz Book: How Much Do You Really Know About the World? – Tim Marshall – 3.5 Stars
Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year – Ed. Jane McMorland Hunter – 3.5 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
The Heart Of The Woods – Wyl Menmuir – 5 Stars
Top Genres
Fiction – 34
Travel – 30
Natural History – 18
Poetry – 12
Memoir – 9
Science Fiction – 8
Science – 5
Miscellaneous – 4
History – 4
Food & Drink – 3
Top Publishers
Bloomsbury – 8
Elliott & Thompson – 5
Eland – 5
Vintage – 5
Summersdale – 4
Faber & Faber – 4
Picador – 4
Canongate – 4
Penguin Classics – 3
Orbit – 3
Review Copies Received
A Quiet Evening – Norman Lewis
The Haunted Vintage – Marjorie Bowen
Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil – Emily Vincent
Library Books Checked Out
A Tree A Day – Amy-Jane Beer
Books Bought
Transit Of Venus: Travels In The Pacific – Julian Evans
The Pharaoh’s Shadow: Travels In Ancient And Modern Egypt – Anthony Sattin
The Undefeated – George Paloczi-Horvath
The Place of Tides – James Rebanks (Signed)
On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar – Clare Hammond
Stormforce, an Otter’s Tal – David Chaffe (Signed)
Parallel Lines: Or, Journeys on the Railway of Dreams – Ian Marchant
Woodsman: Living In A Wood In The 21st Century – Ben Law
The New English Landscape – Ken Worpole
Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project – Iain Sinclair
A House in Sicily – Daphne Phelps
Blue Highways: A Journey into America – William Least Heat-Moon
Heida – Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor – Deborah Devonshire, Patrick Leigh Fermor & Charlotte Mosley (Ed)
Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld – Paul Kidby
Lot: Travels Through a Limestone Landscape in SouthWest France – Helen Martin
Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse – Hugh Trevor-Roper
Dawdling Through The Danube – Edward Enfield
I have been told that I need to clear some books too 🙁
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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