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.
In Tearing Haste is wonderful!
Can’t go wrong with anything Patrick Leigh Fermor has written