January always drags, but as it was raining (a lot) There was plenty of time to stay inside and read! Hence the list below:
Books Read
A Butterfly Journey: Maria Sibylla Merian Artist and Scientist – Boris Friedewald & Stephan von Pohl (Tr) – Biography – 4 – Stars
The Ghosts of Merry Hall – Heather Davey – Fiction – 2 – Stars
The Owl Service – Alan Garner – Fiction – 3.5 – Stars
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain – Pen Vogler – Food & Drink – 4 – Stars
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History – Lea Ypi – Memoir – 3.5 – Stars
Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words – Philip K. Dick & Gregg Rickman – Memoir – 4 – Stars
Make Time: How To Focus On What Matters Every Day – Jake Knapp, & John Zeratsky – Miscellaneous – 2.5 – Stars
Night Vision: In Search Of The True Dark – Jean Sprackland – Miscellaneous – 4.5 – Stars
Meridian – Nancy Gaffield – Poetry – 4 – Stars
The Old Drift – Namwali Serpell – Science Fiction – 2.5 – Stars
The Cruel Stars – John Birmingham – Science Fiction – 3.5 – Stars
False Calm – Maria Sonia Cristoff – Travel – 3 – Stars
Tea and Grit: A Bicycle Journey along the Silk Road – Helen Watson – Travel – 4.5 – Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination – Michaela Vieser And Isaac Yuen – Miscellaneous – 5 – Stars
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future – David Wallace-Wells – Environmental – 5 – Stars
Top Genres
Miscellaneous – 3
Travel – 3
Memoir – 2
Science Fiction – 2
Fiction – 2
Top Publishers
15 books and 15 separate publishers! So I am posting all of them
Titan Boon – 1
Journey Books – 1
Longbarrow Press – 1
Atlantic Books – 1
Allen Lane – 1
Head of Zeus – 1
Reaktion Books – 1
Penguin – 1
Jonathan Cape – 1
Harper Collins – 1
Bantam Press – 1
Prestel Verlag – 1
Vintage – 1
Fragments West – 1
Review Copies Received
Nature Within: How the Natural World Shapes Our Minds, Bodies & Health – James Bashford
Library Books Checked Out
Failed State: Why Nothing Works And How We Fix It – Sam Freedman
Storm Pegs: A Life Made In Shetland – Jen Hadfield
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology Of Folk Horror – Hollie Starling (Ed)
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: 8 I kept these below:
The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club – Marlena de Blasi
The Flow – Amy-Jane Beer
Books out: 34
(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.
Are there any that you have read from the lists above? Let me know in the comments below
V.Quick – The Owl Service by Alan Garner – read as a child and found deeply eerie. Bought a secondhand duplicate of Childhood copy to take and reread in Wales this year! Will be an interesting comparison.
Others have said the Owl Service affected them when they were younger. I can see why, but I didn’t think of it as eerie