A bit of a delay in publishing this as we have been in Venice for a few days and it was v’nice. I did manage to read 14 books in March, a weird selection as ever and here they are:
Books Read
London Made Us: A Memoir Of A Shape-Shifting City – Robert Elms
Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty – Nikita Gill
The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise – Olivia Laing
Hidden Libraries: The World’s Most Unusual Book Depositories – DC Helmuth
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now—As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It – Craig Taylor
Iceland: Small World – Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson
What An Owl Knows: The New Science Of The World’s Most Enigmatic Birds – Jennifer Ackerman
The Company of Owls – Polly Atkin
Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton
Venice Sketchbook – Tudy Sammartini
The Alternatives – Caoilinn Hughes
The Penguin Classics book – Henry Eliot
Three-Quarters Of A Footprint: Travels in South India – Joe Roberts
Book(s) Of The Month
Venice Sketchbook: Impressions, Seasons, Encounters & Pigeons – Huck Scarry
Top Genres
Travel – 7
Fiction – 6
Natural History – 5
Photography – 4
Social History – 3
Top Publishers
Picador – 3
Eland – 3
English Heritage – 2
Granta – 2
Canongate – 2
Review Copies Received
Wild Galloway: From the Hilltops to the Solway, a Portrait of a Glen – Ian Carter
Library Books Checked Out
Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton
The Aternatives – Caoilinn Hughes
Collected Poems – Wendy Cope
The North Pole: The History Of An Obsession – Erling Kagge
Books Bought
As I have said elsewhere, I am trying to buy fewer books. I will give totals of l the number of books that enter my house and those that leave permanently. These are the figures for March:
March Books in: 34
March Books out: 36 (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!!!)
Some of these were for selling on. I kept these below:
Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed – Catrina Davies
Iceland: Small World – Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson (Now pass on too)
Woodlands – Anne Horsfall
That Awkward Age: Poems – Roger McGough (Signed)
John Clare – John Clare Selected by Paul Farley
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art Of Accomplishment Without Burnout – Cal Newport
The Curious Life of the Cuckoo – John Lewis-Stempel (Signed)
Chasing Fog: Finding Enchantment in a Cloud – Laura Pashby
Church Poems – John Betjeman
Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar – Chantal Lyons (Signed)
Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City – Bradley Garrett
The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris―The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century – Kassia St Clair
A Bull On The Beach – Anna Nicholas
Greenbanks – Dorothy Whipple
On the Spine of Italy: A Year in the Abbruzzi – Harry Clifton
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.
Hang on – you read the whole Henry Eliot Penguin Classics book? or have you been reading it for months? I’m making glacial progress on the Penguin MODERN Classics one … Also, yes, there are three on your list I am looking foward to reading!
I read the complete book over ten days. Which three?
The three you sent me!!