Hi Everyone. As the nights are rapidly drawing in I am looking forward o getting stuck into these in October.
Finishing Off (Still!)
Vickery’s Folk Flora: An A-Z of the Folklore and Uses of British and Irish Plants – Roy Vickery
Lotharingia: A Personal History Of Europe’s Lost Country – Simon Winder
A Time Of Birds: Reflections on Cycling Across Europe – Helen Moat
Slow Train to Guantanamo – Peter Millar
Corvus: A Life with Birds – Esther Woolfson
Modern Nature – Derek Jarman
Blog Tours
Attack Surface – Cory Doctorow
Confess – Julia Van Der Molen
Days of Falling Flesh and Rising Moons – Steve Denehan
Review Copies
Thank you to the publishers that have sent me these review copies:
American Dirt – Jeanie Cummins
The Maths Of Life And Death – Kit Yates
Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico – Ronald Wright
A Time Of Birds: Reflections on Cycling Across Europe – Helen Moat
A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are – Flynn Coleman
Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor – Stephen Fabes
A Bird a Day – Dominic Couzens
The Age of Static: How TV Explains Modern Britain – Phil Harrison
Material: Making and the Art of Transformation – Nick Kary
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man’s Quest to Rewild Britain’s Waterways – Derek Gow
Rotherweird – Andrew Caldecot
Wyntertide – Andrew Caldecot
Featherhood – Charlie Gilmour
Attack Surface – Cory Doctorow
Library Books
Complete change around from last month as for the first time in a very long time I have had to renew my library books. These are the next books due back fairly soon now:
Modern Nature – Derek Jarman
Inglorious – Mark Avery
Nightingales In November – Mike Dilger
Nine Pints – Rose George
Buzz – Thor Hanson
Challenge Books
As well as a dusty shelf challenge that I am running on Good Reads, I am joining in with #20BooksOfSummer run by Cathy at 746 books.
From Rome to San Marino – Oliver Knox
Hokkaido Highway Blues – Will Ferguson
A Dragon Apparent – Norman Lewis
In Search of Conrad – Gavin Young
Own Books
See challenge books!
Poetry
Rapture – Carol Ann Duffy
Mancunian Ways – Isabelle Kenyon (Editor)
Science Fiction
Didn’t read any last month (yet again!!!) so this is still on the list:
One Way – S.J. Morden
Attack Surface – Cory Doctrow
Read CORVUS A LIFE WITH BIRDS when first released in PB. Not quite what I expected to be fair I did mostly enjoy it but it , in the second half/final third of the book become a bit to entangled with religion for me.
It has to be at least 10 years ago I read it and so will look forward to your thoughts.
I did listen to an event with Esther Woolfson for her new book – Wigtown Book Festival online and , sadly yet again quite a lot of religion pops in.
As I say I did enjoy it apart from this and hope you will to.
Stay safe.
I have read Field Notes from a Hidden City which was good, so we will see with this one
Good TBR as ever. I need to poke around in mine for my state of the TBR post …
I know I am not going to get to all of them, but I am getting through my TBR a little