November is a short month, but I did manage to get a fair few read in the end:
Books Read
Phantoms of Kernow – Joan Passey (Ed) – 3.5 Stars
The Future Of Travel – Daniel Maurer – 4 Stars
Help!: How To Become Slightly Happier And Get A Bit More Done – Oliver Burkeman – 3 Stars
New York Vertical – Horst Hamann – 4 Stars
Green and Pleasant Land: Best-Loved Poems of the British Countryside – Ana Sampson (Ed) – 3 Stars
Jade City – Fonda Lee – 2.5 Stars
PhotoCity New York – Guillaume Gaudet & Zora O’Neill – 3 Stars
Weather – Storm Dunlop – 3 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain And Ireland – Peter Ross – 4.5 Stars
Lone Wolf: Walking The Faultlines Of Europe – Adam Weymouth – 5 Stars
Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts & Vanishing Trades – James Fox – 5 Stars
Top Genres
Travel – 19
Fiction – 13
Poetry – 11
Natural History – 11
Science Fiction – 10
Top Publishers
Faber & Faber – 7
Simon & Schuster – 6
Penguin – 6
Bloomsbury – 5
Picador – 4
Review Copies Received
We Are All Adrift – David Banning & Iain Sharpe
Library Books Checked Out
Help!: How To Become Slightly Happier And Get A Bit More Done – Oliver Burkeman
Fiesta: A Journey Through Festivity – Daniel Stables
Rope: How A Bundle Of Twisted Fibres Became The Backbone Of Civilisation – Tim Queeney
The Future Of Agriculture – Sarah Bearchell
Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts & Vanishing Trades – James Fox
Common People: A Folk History Of Land Rights, Enclosure And Resistance – Leah Gordon & Stephen Ellcock
Books Bought (Or Sent by Friends)
As I have said elsewhere, I am trying to buy fewer books. So I will give totals of the number of books that enter my house and those that leave permanently. These are the figures for this month:
Books in: 15 I kept these below:
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland – Tom Parfitt
Night Life: Walking Britain’s Wild Landscapes after Dark – John Lewis-Stempel
The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and other Peatlands – Anna Chilvers & Clare Shaw
Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination – Nicholas Jubber
Books out: 17 (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.
I’m looking forward to Craftland.
I’ve got Craftland to read soon too.
I guess that living where I do I should be considering the Book of Bogs!
Loved the Peter Ross.