Have had a bookish afternoon meeting James Lockhart and Robert Penn at the Dorchester Literary Festival and now hearing Dan Richard talk about his book Climbing Days in Southampton
Category: Book Musings (Page 30 of 31)
I have finally taken the plunge and signed up for Twitter. You can find me here:
@halfmanhalfb00k
All my reviews have now been uplaoded onto Nudge for the six shortlisted Royal Society books:
Not sure who is going to win. I hope it is The Most Perfect Thing, but think that it might be Gene.
I am slowly but surely building up my collection of natural history books. These are ones that I have read in the past but have never owned. Over the weekend bought:
Waterlog by Roger Deakin
Wildwood by Roger Deakin
The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot (courtesy of Nudge)
If you have’t read (or heard) of them, they are all worth reading
As well as getting a book to review I also got to ask Francis Pryor some questions about his latest book:
And the link to my review:
http://halfmanhalfbook.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/review-stonehenge-story-of-sacred.html
Roger Deakin died ten years ago yesterday. He wrote the amazing Waterlog, a lyrical book about swimming in any pool of water that he could fit into. More than that he inspired the author Robert Macfarlane and countless others to explore, discover and most importantly write about what they see.
All of his books are wonderful, if you have the slightest interest in nature then I cannot recommend them strongly enough.
The words by Macfarlane in the obituary are still poignant today:
http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2016/08/19/force-of-nature-robert-macfarlane-roger-deakin-obituary/
Great selection of books for the Royal Society prize:
https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-prizes/science-books-prize/
Many congratulations to Amy Liptrot the winner of the Wainwright Prize for her book, The Outrun
Tomorrow is the prize giving for the Wainwright Prize. I had an invite to attend but sadly I am not going to be able to make it.
I have read all the books on the shortlist, but not totally sure who is going to win. My money is on Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, but A Shepherd’s Life is going to give it a run too.
What do you think?
The shortlist for the 2016 Wainwright prize has been announced:
http://wainwrightprize.com/2016/06/30/the-wainwright-prize-2016-shortlist-revealed/
The books are:
Common Ground by Rob Cowen
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
The Moth Snowstorm by Michael McCarthy
The Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
I have read all of them, favourites are Landmarks and The Shepherds Life, closely followed by Common Ground and the Outrun, but they are all worth reading. Here are my reviews on Nudge:
http://nudge-book.com/blog/2016/06/the-wainwright-prize-2016-shortlist-revealed/
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