May by and because of other things going on, I didn’t get as much read as I wanted to. But I did read twelve books and of those, had three favourites.
Books Read
Salt Slow – Julia Armfield – 3 Stars
Mischief Acts – Zoe Gilbert – 3 Stars
Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – 3 Stars
Set My Hand Under The Plough – E.M. Barraud – 4 Stars
An Ocean of Static – J.R. Carpenter – 3.5 Stars
The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin – 2.5 Stars
Venomous Lumpsucker – Ned Beauman – 2.5 Stars
Wayfarer: Love, Loss And Life On Britain’s Ancient Paths – Phoebe Smith– 4 Stars
The Gathering Place – Mary Colwell – 4 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Black Ghosts – Noo Saro-Wiwi – 4.5 Stars
Seaglass: Essays, Moments and Reflections – Kathryn Tann – 4.5 Stars
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation – Hugh Warwick – 4.5 Stars
Top Genres
Travel – 17
Fiction – 11
Natural History – 9
Poetry – 5
Science Fiction – 5
Memoir – 5
History – 2
Humour – 2
Science – 2
Writing – 1
Top Publishers
Bloomsbury – 6
Canongate – 3
Unbound – 2
Picador – 2
Harper North – 2
Eland – 2
Little Toller – 2
Salt – 2
Orbit – 2
Saraband – 2
Review Copies Received
Brandy Sour – Constantia Soteriou, Lina Protopapa (Tr)
The Station – Athos: Treasures and Men – Robert Byron
Muscat & Oman – Ian Skeet
Library Books Checked Out
The Half Bird – Susan Smillie
The Stirrings: A Memoir In Northern Time – Catherine Taylor
The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite – Jake Bernstein
The Lost Paths: A History Of How We Walk From Here To There – Jack Cornish
Books Bought
Hot Sun, Cool Shadow: Savoring The Food, History, And Mystery Of The Languedoc – Angela Murrills, Peter Matthews (Ill)
milk and honey – Rupi Kaur
The Raven’s Nest: An Icelandic Journey Through Light and Darkness – Sarah Thomas
The Wild Flowers of the Isle of Purbeck, Brownsea and Sandbanks – Edward A. Pratt
Word From Wormingford: A Parish Year – Ronald Blythe
An English Forest – Richard Kraus
Dorset Smugglers – Roger Guttridge (Signed)
Between The Chalk And The Sea: A Journey On Foot Into The Past – Gail Simmons (Signed)
The Pacific – Simon Winchester (Signed)
The Local: Christmas Eve At The Warrington – Maurice Gorham & Edward Ardizzone
A Love Letter From A Stray Moon – Jay Griffiths
The Unsophisticated Arts – Barbara Mildred Jones
Country Matters – Clare Leighton
Going To Ground – Various
The Ancient Woods Of South-East Wales – Oliver Rackham
Shrewdunnit: The Nature Files – Conor Mark Jameson
The London Compendium: A Street-By-Street Exploration of the Hidden Metropolis – Ed Glinert
Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes – Mollie Panter-Downes
The Happy Tree – Rosalind Murray
The Godwits Fly – Robin Hyde
The Runaway – Elizabeth Anna Hart
A London Child of the 1870s – Molly Hughes
Extremely Pale Rosé: A Very French Adventure – Jamie Ivey
La Vie en Rose – Jamie Ivey
Rose En Marche: Running a Market Stall in Provence – Jamie Ivey
the sun and her flowers – Rupi Kaur
In the Footsteps of Du Fu – Michael Wood
Footprints through Avebury – Michael W Pitts
Call of the White: Taking the World to the South Pole: Eight Women, One Unique Expedition – Felicity Aston
There and Back: Photographs from the Edge – Jimmy Chin (Signed)
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: including a summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian rayahs. Vols. I, II – Isabella L. Bird
So are there any from that huge list that you have read, or now seeing them, now want to read? Let me know in the comments below.
I’ve read a few of your incomings! Have you reviewed Black Ghosts, I don’t remember seeing it, do I? I’m keen to read that one myself but don’t have it yet (and now I’ve got my TBR all lined up nicely I don’t want to make it get too big again!).
What ones have you read?
I have written the review, but not typed it up yet. I am a little behind on that at the moment
Milk and Honey, Minnie’s Room, The Runaway, A London Child, Call of the White,