February is always short so I never end up reading as much as I think I can. But this month, we put the house back on the market, so I had even less time!

The flip side was that it was relentlessly wet so I didn’t venture out that much… However, I did manage to read 11 books, one under my target of twelve.

 

Books Read

On the Road Bike: The Search for a Nation’s Cycling Soul   Ned Boulting             Cycling     4 Stars

Everything I found On The Beach            Cyan Jones               Fiction      3 Stars

Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology Of Folk Horror        Hollie Starling (Ed)  Fiction      3 Stars

Warrior: The Biography of a Man with No Name    Edoardo Albert & Paul Gething                History     3.5 Stars

The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers    Bobby Seagull          Maths       3 Stars

An English Forest    Richard Kraus          Photography             4 Stars

Wealden  Nancy Gaffield         Poetry      4 Stars

It’s A Gas: The Magnificent And Elusive Elements That Expand Our World          Mark Miodownik       Science    4 Stars

Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces Laurie Winkless       Science    4 Stars

Hafren: The Wisdom of the River Severn                Sarah Siân Chave   Travel       3.5 Stars

 

Book(s) Of The Month

Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History In South America     Shafik Meghji            Travel       4 Stars

 

Top Genres

Travel       4

Fiction      4

Miscellaneous          3

Science Fiction        2

Science    2

 

Top Publishers

Granta      2

Longbarrow Press   2

Calon Books             1

Daunt Books             1

Reaktion Books        1

 

Review Copies Received

Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend               Jeremy Harte

The Black Fox          Gerald Heard

The New Flesh         Mark Morris (Ed)

 

Library Books Checked Out

Someone Is Walking On Your Grave:  My Cemetery Journeys              “Mariana Enriquez & Megan McDowell (Tr)”

 

Books Bought (Or Sent by Friends)

As I have said elsewhere, I am trying to buy fewer books. So I will give totals of l the number of books that enter my house and those that leave permanently. These are the figures for this month:

Books in: 6 I kept these below:

None! Nada! Zilch! Yes really!

 

Books out: 25 (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!!!).

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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