February flew by as usual. Here is what I read and bought last month:
Books Read
Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe – Robert Twigger – 3.5 Stars
the sun and her flowers – Rupi Kaur – 3 Stars
Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (Tr) – 2.5 Stars
Cold Enough for Snow – Jessica Au – 3 Stars
The Secrets Of Flowers – Sally Page – 3 Stars
An Englishman In Patagonia – John Pilkington – 4 Stars
The Story of Silbury Hill – Jim Leary & David Field – 4 Stars
This is London: Life and Death in the World City – Ben Judah – 3.5 Stars
Panoramas of Lost London: Work, Wealth, Poverty & Change – Philip Davies – 4.5 Stars
Return to Sri Lanka: Travels In A Paradoxical Island – Razeen Sally – 2.5 Stars
In England – Don McCullin – 4 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
On the Narrow Road to the Deep North: Journey into a Lost Japan – Lesley Chan Downer – 5 Stars
Top Genres
Travel – 6
Fiction – 5
Architecture – 3
Photography – 3
Poetry – 2
Top Publishers
Simon & Schuster – 2
W&N – 2
Picador – 2
Eland – 2
English Heritage – 2
Review Copies Received
Julia Roseingrave – Marjorie Bowen
The Restless Coast: A Journey Around The Edge of Britain – Roger Morgan-Grenville
Library Books Checked Out
The Penguin Classics book – Henry Eliot
What An Owl Knows: The New Science Of The World’s Most Enigmatic Birds – Jennifer Ackerman
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art Of Accomplishment Without Burnout – Cal Newport
The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise – Olivia Laing
Return to Sri Lanka: Travels In A Paradoxical Island – Razeen Sally
Hidden Libraries: The World’s Most Unusual Book Depositories – DC Helmuth
Books Bought
As I have said elsewhere, I am trying to buy fewer books. So I will give totals of the number of books that enter my house and those that leave permanently. These are the figures for February:
February Books in: 27
February Books out: 13 (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!!!)
Some of these were for selling on. I kept these thirteen below:
Birdgirl: Discovering the Power of Our Natural World – Mya-Rose Craig
My Kenya Days – Wilfred Thesiger
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding – Julia Strachey
Granta 94: On The Road Again – Where Travel Writing Went Next – Ian Jack (Ed)
Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive’s Travels in South India 1798-180 – Nancy Shields (Ed)
Why I Write – George Orwell
The Ridgeway: Europe’s Oldest Road – Richard Ingrams
How To Fish – Chris Yates
Touch the Sky – Tess Burrows (signed)
Rain – Melissa Harrison
This Volcanic Isle: The Violent Processes that forged the British Landscape – Robert Muir-Wood
Haramacy: A Collection of Stories Prescribed by Voices From the Middle East, South Asia and the Diaspora – Zahed Sultan & Tara Joshi (Ed)
Africa Solo: My World Record Race from Cairo to Cape Town – Mark Beaumont (signed)
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.
I won’t be offended if you pass the ones I sent you on once you’ve read them – I’m all for sharing, as you know! I’m not sure if I’m keeping Birdgirl or not. You are inspiring me to see if I can keep a count of books I pass out of the house as well, watch this space! (I had to write half of my last State of the TBR post the Monday before I published it and half in Spain so wasn’t feeling I could be very detailed on that this time!).
Thank you. I didn’t think you would be, the same applies to the books I send you.
More came in than out last month, but I have got fourteen or so to send out in the next week, including the books for you (one to finish yet)