Didn’t January drag on and on? it always feels so long. But we made it to February and I like that there is more light in the evenings now too. One advantage of a long month is I can get more read and in the end finished 18 books!
Books Read
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales For Christmas Nights – Ed. Tanya Kirk – 3 Stars
The Metal Heart – Caroline Lea – 3 Stars
The Peckham Experiment – Guy Ware – 3.5 Stars
Robot Overlords: Robots Never Lie – Mark Stay – 3.5 Stars
Treacle Walker – Alan Garner – 3.5 Stars
Gnomon – Nick Harkaway – 4 Stars
The Crow Folk – Mark Stay – 4 Stars
Babes In The Wood – Mark Stay – 4 Stars
The Golden Mole – Katherine Rundell – 3 Stars
Escape from Model Land – Erica Thompson – 3.5 Stars
Green Unpleasant Land – Corinne Fowler – 4 Stars
Millstone Grit – Glyn Huges – 4 Stars
What Remains? – Rupert Callender – 4 Stars
We Saw It All Happen – Julian Bishop – 3.5 Stars
England’s Green – Zaffar Kunial – 4 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Restoring The Wild – Roy Dennis – 4.5 Stars
Hothouse Earth – Bill McGuire – 4.5 Stars
England on Fire – Stephen Ellcock& Mat Osman – 4.5 Stars
Top Genres
This is something that you are not going to see very often:
Fantasy – 3
Fiction – 3
Science Fiction – 2
Poetry – 2
History – 2
Natural History – 2
Maths – 1
Miscellaneous – 1
Environmental – 1
Art – 1
Top Publishers
Simon & Schuster – 2
Faber & Faber – 2
Gollancz – 1
Chelsea Green – 1
William Heinemann – 1
Peepal Tree Press – 1
British Library – 1
Little Toller – 1
Icon Books – 1
William Collins – 1
Review Copies Received
Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us – Jake M. Robinson
Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature – Miles Richardson
RSPB How to Photograph Garden Birds – Mark Carwardine
RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife: 3rd edition – Peter Holden & Geoffrey Abbott
Falling Away – David Banning
The Quiet Moon: Pathways To An Ancient Way Of Being – Kevin Parr
One Fine Day: A Journey Through English Time – Ian Marchant
Across A Waking Land: A 1,000-Mile Walk Through A British Spring – Roger Morgan-Grenville
Pharmakon – Almudena Sánchez Tr. Katie Whittemore
The Angel Of Santa Sofia – Josep M. Argemí Tr. Tiago Miller
Library Books Checked Out
Treacle Walker – Alan Garner
The Ghost of Ivy Barn – Mark Stay
All In: How we build a country that works – Lisa Nandy
Books Bought
The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
Dent’s Modern Tribes – Susie Dent (signed)
The Unofficial Countryside – Richard Mabey
Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside – Ronald Blythe (signed)
The Unseen University Challenge: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Quizbook – Terry Pratchett & David Langford
Messengers: City Tales From a London Bicycle Courier – Julian Sayarer
The Road to Le Tholonet: A French Garden Journey – Montagu Don
Experimental Landscapes in Watercolour: Creative techniques for painting landscapes and nature – Ann Blockley
The Photographs Of HG Ponting – Beau Riffenburgh
Dorset Pilgrimages: A Millennium Handbook – Peter Knight & Mike Power
Crossing Open Ground – Barry Lopez
Interpreting the Landscape from the Air – Mick Aston
A Croft in the Hills – Katharine Stewart
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village – Ronald Blythe
Out Of The Valley: Another Year At Wormingford – Ronald Blythe
Solomon Time: Adventures in the South Pacific – Will Randall
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide – Charles Foster (signed)
Orison For A Curlew – Horatio Clare
Saxons & Vikings – David A. Hinton
Railway Stations – Mike Oakley
The 8.55 To Baghdad – Andrew Eames
Cleopatra’s Needle: Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo – Anne Mustoe (signed)
Are there any in that long list that take your fancy?
How many books did you manage to read in January?
Let me know in the comments.
14 in January, I think, which would have been OK if 31 hadn’t come in …! I have Dent’s Modern Tribes and I can see some other really interesting ones on your lists. Happy reading!
Well done on both counts! I read Dent’s Modern Tribes a while ago, but found a signed copy in a charity shop