This month is mostly going to be travelling the world via books, so here is my TBR for July:
Finishing Off (Still!)
Vickery’s Folk Flora – Roy Vickery
Hollow Places – Christopher Hadley
Lotharingia – Simon Winder
Blog Tours
None!
Review Copies
Thank you to the publishers (and one author) that have sent me these review copies:
Tall Trees Short Stories – Gabriel Hemery
Rock Pool – Heather Buttivant
Into The Tangled Bank – Lev Parikian
American Dirt – Jeanie Cummins (still wavering on this one a little with all the publicity about this)
The Many Lives of Carbon – Dag Olav Hessen, Tr. Kerri Pierce
The Maths Of Life And Death – Kit Yates
So You Think You’ve Got Problems? – Alex Bellos
The Story of Codes – Stephen Pincock, Mark Frary
Fibonacci’s Rabbits – Adam Hart-Davis
Library Books
Read hardly any library books in June, so still aiming to read these:
Lone Rider – Elspeth Beard
Sea People – Christina Thompson
The Way To The Sea – Caroline Crampton
A Beginner’s Guide To Japan – Pico Iyer
Pie Fidelity – Pete Brown
The Bells of Old Tokyo – Anna Sherman
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.
The Way Of The World – Nicolas Bouvier, Translated By Robyn Marsack
Warriors – Gerald Hanley
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus – Lawrence Durrell
Jungle – Yossi Ghinsberg
Mirror to Damascus – Colin Thubron
From Rome to San Marino – Oliver Knox
Among Muslims – Kathleen Jamie
Naples 44 – Norman Lewis
Own Books
Water and Sky – Neil Sentance
Ridge and Furrow – Neil Sentance
Poetry
Flèche – Mary Jean Chan
Reckless Paper Bird – John McCullough
Science Fiction
Didn’t read any last month (again!!!) so this is still on the list:
One Way – S.J. Morden
I’m about to start Into the Tangled Bank so I’ll be interested in your thoughts on it!
I have heard it is good. I loved Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear, full of wry humour and honest writing
I’m 1/3 of the way into Lev’s book and so far it is very similar to his previous one with the witty writing and footnotes. I like the way that he starts at home and gradually moves outwards, to his garden, then his patch, etc., to show all the wildlife there is to find. It’s unexpectedly timely in a year when lots of people haven’t been able to travel properly!
The two poetry books you have lined up are excellent — they were among my favourites from last year.
I enjoyed American Dirt, but I read it before all the controversy broke it and it doesn’t seem possible to assess it objectively anymore.
That is good to know. I met him when he came down to BH16 books in Southborne, he is a really nice guy. I have picked it up a couple of times and wavered but should really read, and get it over with.
Oh, that’s fun. We follow him on Twitter, of course, and he seems nice.
He really is