For a long month, December always seems to go so fast. With all the things going on, I have never really seemed to have as much time to read as I want, but I did manage to finish my Good Reads challenge of 190 books again. To reach that total I had 14 books to finish, and here they all are:
Books Read
Malarkoi – Alex Pheby – 3.5 Stars
Winter’s Gifts – Ben Aaronovitch – 3.5 Stars
The Holly King – Mark Stay – 4 Stars
Shitstorm – Fernando Sdrigotti – 3.5 Stars
Travellers Through Time: A Gypsy History – Jeremy Harte – 4 Stars
I Hate Christmas: A Manifesto for the Modern-day Scrooge – Daniel Blythe – 2.5 Stars
The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep – Jane Cooper – 3.5 Stars
Soundings: Journeys In The Company Of Whales – Doreen Cunningham – 3 Stars
Wild Isles – Patrick Barkham & Alastair Fothergill – 3.5 Stars
Yew – Fred Hageneder – 4 Stars
The Last Hedgehog – Pam Ayres & Alice Tait (Ill) – 3.5 Stars
Nature Tales for Winter Nights – Ed. Nancy Campbell – 3.5 Stars
Wild Wanderings – Phil Gribbon – 3 Stars
Book(s) Of The Month
This is a stunning book of art and poetry. Well
Feather, Leaf, Bark & Stone – Jackie Morris – 4.5 Stars
Top Genres
Fiction – 29
Natural History – 25
Travel – 23
Poetry – 18
Memoir – 13
Fantasy – 11
History – 8
Science Fiction – 7
Art – 5
Politics – 5
Top Publishers
Faber & Faber – 12
Simon & Schuster – 7
Bloomsbury – 6
William Collins – 6
Penguin – 6
Little Toller – 6
Jonathan Cape – 5
Elliott & Thompson – 5
Reaktion Books – 4
Headline – 4
Review Copies Received
Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites: 44 – Ed. Katy Soar
Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms – Ed. Alasdair Richmond
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East – Barnaby Rogerson
Library Books Checked Out
Elixir: In The Valley At The End Of Time – Kapka Kassobova
A Year in the Life: Adventures in British Subcultures – Lucy Leonelli
Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future – Philip Lymbery
Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun – Chris Broad
Books Bought
You Took the Last Bus Home – Brian Bilston
Orwell’s Roses – Rebecca Solnit
Homage to Barcelona – Colm Toibin
The Nightingale – Sam Lee
The Elder Edda – Unknown
The Peace Of Wild Things – Wendell Berry
Hermit – Jade Angeles Fitton
Dorset’s World Heritage Coast: An Archaeological Guide – John Beavis
The Greek Islands – Lawrence Durrell
In Search Of England – H.V. Morton
The Oatmeal Ark: From the Western Isles to a Promised Sea – Rory MacLean
The Time-travelling Caveman – Terry Pratchett
Legends & Folklore Dorset – Andrew Caffrey
Why Women Grow – Alice Vincent
The Road to McCarthy – Pete McCarthy
Earth Memories – Llewelyn Powys
The Mirror Of The Sea – Joseph Conrad
The Man Who Planted Trees – Jean Giono, Harry Brockway (Ill) & Aline Giono
Lev’s Violin: An Italian Adventure – Helena Attlee
Danziger’s Adventures: From Miami to Kabul – Nick Danziger
So any from that huge list that you have read, or now seeing them, now want to read? Let me know in the comments below.
Ooh A Year in the Life is an Unbound book I subscribed to so you’ll find my name in it! Which Elder Edda translation have you got? Well done on a great yearly total, one more than me by the time I added the two that fell off the spreadsheet!
I shall have a look for your name.
It was translated by Andy Orchard and published by Penguin.
I have set mine at 150 for this year so a bit lower