June flew by as ever, and the amount of books that I wanted to read versus the amount of books I did actually read was very different. But I did read twelve. And three of those were five star reads, too. So without further ado, here is last month’s round up.
Books Read
The Anechoic Chamber And Other Weird Tales – Will Wiles – 3.5
Natural Selection: A Year In The Garden – Dan Pearson – 4
Normally Weird And Weirdly Normal: My Adventures In Neurodiversity – Robin Ince – 4.5
Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway, a Portrait of a Glen – Ian Carter – 4
Renaturing: Small Ways To Wild The World – James Canton – 4.5
Selected Poems – Kathleen Jamie – 4
Idlewild – Nick Sagan – 2.5
Annihilation – Jeff VanderMeer – 4
Lifelines: Finding a Home in the Mountains of Greece – Julian Hoffman – 4
Book(s) Of The Month
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop? – Chris van Tulleken – 5
The North Road – Rob Cowen – 5
In Search of the Perfect Peach: Why Flavour Holds the Answer to Fixing Our Food System – Franco Fubini – 5
Top Genres
Travel – 17
Natural History – 9
Fiction – 9
Poetry – 6
Photography – 5
Top Publishers
Faber & Faber – 5
Eland – 4
Canongate – 4
Picador – 4
Oneworld – 3
Review Copies Received
The Lost Stradivarius – J. Meade Falkner
Phantoms of Kernow – Joan Passey (Ed)
Return of the Ancients: Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird – Katy Soar (Ed)
Library Books Checked Out
Of Thorn & Briar: A Year With The West Country Hedgelayer – Paul Lamb
Words From The Hedge: A Hedgelayer’s View Of The Countryside – Negus, Richard
The North Road – Rob Cowen
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 June:
June Books in: 14
June 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!!!). I kept these below:
The Book of English Magic – Philip Carr-Gomm & Richard Heygate
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World – Tom Burgis
The Mountains Of Rasselas – An Ethopian Adventure – Thomas Pakenham
A Piano In The Pyrenees: A Coming Of Age Adventure in The South OF France – Tony Hawks
Angels in the Cellar – Peter Hahn (Signed)
How To Rewild: A Practical Manual from Underhill Wood Nature Reserve from One to Fifty Acres – Jonathan Thomson (Signed)
Life on the Line – Jeremy Bullard (Signed)
Key and Other Poems – James E. Kenward (Signed)
Devonshire Folk Tales – Michael Dacre (Signed)
So are there any from the list above that you have read, or now seeing them, now want to read? Let me know in the comments below.
You didn’t do too badly on books in and out! I think I was one more in than out in June myself. Must do a charity shop run soon as am accumulating them again (I went with a friend to help her spend a bookshop token I’d given her yesterday – she bought four books, two with the token, and I bought three!).