Another month passes and and few more books read and cleared. Not as many as August though… This was the past months reading and stats below:
Books Read
Forgotten Churches: Exploring England’s Hidden Treasures – Luke Sherlock – 3 Stars
This Motherless Land – Nikki May – 3 Stars
Eliot’s Book Of Bookish Lists – Henry Eliot – 3 Stars
Tyger Tyger Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember – Ana Sampson (Ed) – 3 Stars
Evolution – Stephen Baxter – 2 Stars
Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson – 3.5 Stars
The Bridge – Janine Ellen Young – 4 Stars
Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines – Rodney A Brooks – 2.5 Stars
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future – Martin Ford – 3.5 Stars
God Is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature – Ben Goldsmith – 3 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth – Anjana Khatwa – 4 Stars
Church Going: A Stonemason’s Guide To The Churches Of The British Isles – Andrew Ziminski – 4 Stars
Top Genres
Travel – 17
Fiction – 11
Natural History – 11
Science Fiction – 10
Poetry – 9
Top Publishers
Faber & Faber – 7
Simon & Schuster – 6
Bloomsbury – 5
Penguin – 5
Picador – 4
Review Copies Received
The Wayfarer’s Weird: Wild Tales of Uncanny Rambles – Weird Walk
The Tiger Skin: And Other Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt – Violet Hunt & Melissa Edmundson (ed)
Hafren: The Wisdom of the River Severn – Sarah Siân Chave
An Unnatural History of Britain: A Journey In Search of Our Non-Native Species – Kevin Parr
Library Books Checked Out
Lost Gods of Albion – Paul Newman
Stone Lands: A Journey Of Darkness And Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places – Fiona Robertson
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: 10. I kept these below:
Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train – Monisha Rajesh
Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark – Dan Richards
111 Place In Dorset That You Really Shouldn’t Miss – Jenni Bell & Karen Heaney
Madagascar: The Eighth Continent: Life, Death and Discovery in a Lost World – Peter Tyson
Books out: 41 (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.
What did you think of This Motherless Land? I’m glad you’ve got hold of the Monica Rajesh as I think it’s one you’ll really like.
I quite liked it. I did get to hear Nikki speak about it at the book club I go to and she is hilarious