Some major deviations from the original March TBR, as after I posted it, we booked a week’s break in Alicante, so I picked six travel books set in Spain that I had languishing on shelves around the house. I managed to read five of them on the holiday! So here is what I read in March:
Books Read
Experimental Landscapes in Watercolour: Creative Techniques For Painting Landscapes And Nature – Ann Blockley – 3.5 Stars
Medusa: A Novel of Mystery, Ecstasy and Strange Horror – E. H. Visiak – 2 Stars
The Lost Stradivarius – John Meade Falkner – 3.5 Stars
The Future Of Agriculture – Sarah Bearchell – 4 Stars
21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari – 3.5 Stars
Cabin: How To Build A Retreat In The Wilderness And Learn To Live With Nature – Will Jones – 2.5 Stars
The Starling: A Biography – Stephen Moss – 3.5 Stars
A Sleepwalk on the Severn – Alice Oswald – 3 Stars
The Santiago Pilgrimage: Walking the Immortal Way – Jean-Christophe Rufin, Malcolm Imrie & Martina Dervis (Tr) – 3 Stars
Spanish Lessons: Beginning a New Life In Spain – Derek Lambert – 3.5 Stars
It’s Not About the Tapas: A Spanish Adventure on Two Wheels – Polly Evans – 3.5 Stars
Pilgrim’s Road: A Journey to Santiago de Compostela – Bettina Selby – 4 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Common People: A Folk History Of Land Rights, Enclosure And Resistance – Leah Gordon & Stephen Ellcock – 5 Stars
Spring: The Story of a Season – Michael Morpurgo – 5 Stars
Spain – Jan Morris – 5 Stars
Top Genres
Travel – 9
Fiction – 6
Miscellaneous – 4
Poetry – 3
Natural History – 3
Top Publishers
Jonathan Cape – 2
British Library Publishing – 2
Bantam Press – 2
Penguin – 2
Longbarrow Press – 2
Quartley Stats:
Male Authors – 21
Female Authors – 21
Ethnic Minority Authors – 8
Non-Fiction – 31
Fiction – 8
Poetry – 3
Review Copies Received
Farewell to Russia: A Journey through the Former USSR – Joe Luc Barnes
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir – Peter Flemming
Saints of Sind – Peter Mayne
The Waterlands: Follow A Raindrop From Source To Sea – Stephen Rutt
The Luck Of the Town – Marion Fox
Library Books Checked Out
Possessions: A Memoir Of Transformation In An Era Of Precarity – Davina Quinlivan
Tiny Experiments: How To Live Freely In A Goal-Obsessed World – Anne-Laure Le Cunff
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: 14
I kept these below:
The Icknield Way – Edward Thomas
Avebury Cosmos: The Neolithic World of Avebury henge, Silbury Hill, West Kennet long barrow, the Sanctuary & the Longstones Cove – Nicholas R. Mann
Books out: 46
(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.
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