Well that was quite a month in lots of ways… See Books Bought at the end to see why. I did manage to read 14 in the end as we had lots going on at home, include my daughters major surgery and making the decision that we need to move house for various reasons. Anyway, you’re here for the books and this is what I read last month:
Books Read
Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future – Philip Lymbery – Environmental – 4 Stars
The Man Who Planted Trees – Jean Giono, Harry Brockway (Ill) & Aline Giono – Fiction – 3 Stars
A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us – Poppy Okotcha – Gardening – 3 Stars
What Is Your Cat Really Thinking? – Sophie Johnson & Danny Cameron – Humour – 2.5 Stars
Trees In Winter – Richard Shimell – Memoir – 4 Stars
Our Oaken Bones: Reviving A Family, A Farm And Britain’s Ancient Rainforests – Merlin Hanbury-Tenison – Natural History – 3.5 Stars
Neurodivergent, By Nature: Why Biodiversity Needs Neurodiversity – Joe Harkness – Navigation – 4 Stars
Abandoned Churches: Unclaimed Places of Worship – Francis Meslet – Photography – 3.5 Stars
The Peace Of Wild Things – Wendell Berry – Poetry – 3 Stars
The Three Body Problem – Ci Xin Liu – Science Fiction – 3.5 Stars
A Second Chance at Eden – Peter F. Hamilton – Science Fiction – 3.5 Stars
The Postal Paths: Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Routes – And The People Who Walked Them – Alan Cleaver – Social History – 4 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
Under A Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder – Philip Marsden – Geology – 4.5 Stars
The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite – Jake Bernstein – True Crime – 4.5 Stars
Top Genres
Travel – 17
Fiction – 10
Natural History – 10
Poetry – 8
Science Fiction – 7
Top Publishers
Faber & Faber – 7
Picador – 4
Simon & Schuster – 4
Canongate – 4
Bloomsbury – 4
Eland – 4
Review Copies Received
Little Ruins – Manni Coe
Library Books Checked Out
Night Train To Odesa: Covering The Human Cost of Russia’s War – Jen Stout
A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us – Poppy Okotcha
Postal Paths: Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Routes – And The People Who Walked Them – Alan Cleaver
Church Going: A Stonemason’s Guide To The Churches Of The British Isles – Andrew Ziminski
Landscape, Monuments and Society: The Prehistory of Cranborne Chase – “John Barrett, Richard J. Bradley & Martin T. Green (Ed)”
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 June:
August Books in: 13
August Books out: 229 (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!!!). I kept these below:
Spring – Michael Morpurgo
Slow Boat to Uragruy – Andrew Tunstall
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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