Here is my summary of the books read and acquired in March. As ever I didn’t get as many books read as I hoped too but did read my target of sixteen books
Books Read
Wintering – Katherine May
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy – Mark Hodkinson
Concretopia – John Grindrod
Ice Rivers – Jemma L. Wadham
A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse Emily Dickinson – Ted Hughes
Wild Fell – Lee Schofield
Hebrides – Peter May & David Wilson
Putin’s People – Catherine Belton
Forecast – Joe Shute
Shalimar – Davina Quinlivan
Lotharingia – Simon Winder
The Waste Land – T.S. Eliot
Foula – Sheila Gear
Hurricane Lizards And Plastic Squid – Thor Hanson
The Turkish Embassy Letters – Mary Wortley Montagu
Book Of the Month
My book of the month is Moneyland – Oliver Bullough. This is a shocking book about the way that those with lots and lots of money are controlling the world at the money. He tries to shine a light into this dark pit he is calling Moneyland and it made me angry. Read it and it should make you angry too
Top Genres
Natural History – Ten Books
Travel – Seven Books
Poetry – Five Books
Top Publishers
William Collins – Six Books
John Murray – Two Books
Quercus – Two Books
Allen Lane – Two Books
Faber & Faber – Two Books
Little Toller- Two Books
Plus 32 other publishers with one book each!
Review Copies Received
Lost Woods – Rachel Carson
Foula – Sheila Gear
Fledgling – Hannah Bourne-Taylor
Tomorrow’s People – Paul Morland
Jacobé & Fineta – Joaquim Ruyra
The Seven Deadly Sins – Mara Faye Lethem
The Price of Immortality – Peter Ward
The Sloth Lemurs Song – Alison Richard
Taking Stock – Roger Morgan-Grenville
Where My Feet Fall – Duncan Minshall
One People – Guy Kennaway
The Hill of Devi – E.M. Forster
Three Women of Herat – Veronica Doubleday
Polling Unpacked – Mark Pack
Library Books Checked Out
We Robots – Curtis White
The Travel Photographer’s Way – Nori Jemil\
Babes In The Wood – Mark Stay
Robot Overlords – Mark Stay
Books Bought
Tiny Castles – Dixe Wills
Irreplaceable – Julian Hoffman (Signed)
Naples 44 – Norman Lewis
Sweet Thames Run Softly – Robert Gibbons
The Marsh Arabs – Wilfred Theisger
Return To The Marshes – Gavin Young (Signed)
The Wren: A Biography – Stephen Moss
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler
Constable Paintings, Watercolours & Drawings by Leslie Parris
Europe – Jan Morris
Beyond Lion Rock – Gavin Young
Slow Boats to China – Gavin Young
Slow Boats Home – Gavin Young
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip – Peter Hessler
Morning In The Burned House – Margaret Atwood (Signed)
In Search of Isaac Gulliver – M.V. Angel
Born To Be Mild – Rob Temple
The Village on the Hill: The Story of Colehill in Dorset – George Sadler
Three Came Home: A Woman’s Ordeal In A Japanese Prison Camp – Agnes Keith
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld – Stephen Briggs
A good lot read and some nice incomings – so many review books! Mind you, watch out tomorrow for what happened when a friend alerted me to the contents of the window of a local Oxfam Books … oops! I have the Gavin Young books and I have read a Peter Hessler about China previously so that one caught my eye. Happy reading!
Charity shop book shopping is great. I either get none or twelve! Did you see the Gavin Young book I found that is signed by him? The thread is on twitter