S. Barry, The Secret Scripture (2008)
A. Beam, The rise, fall and curious afterlife of the great books (2008)
A. Coglan, Carols from Kings (2016)
A. Kavan, Ice (1967)
V. Moller, The map of knowledge (2019)
W. Morris, The glittering plain (1890)
V. Moller, The map of knowledge (2019)
W. Morris, The glittering plain (1890)
A. Proctor, The whole picture: the colonial story of the art in our museums (2020)
M. Reisner, Cadillac Desert (2003)
B. Unsworth, Losing Nelson (1999)
It's been a pretty disappointing reading month. Most of these were mediocre, and a number were plain bad. The only two that I would wholeheartedly recommend were the Reisner on water and the second of the marvellous chalet-school-on-Mars series that I loved so much last Christmas that I saved this one for this Christmas. It was, like it's predecessor, my favourite of the month. It was not as good. Some of the plotting needed more work, but still hugely enjoyable. Cadillac Desert could, perhaps should have, beaten it, but it was a little too long, and too unwieldly in the middle. It was, however, fascinating, and very well told in most of the parts. I would be uneasy as an inhabitant of the American West right now.
It's been a pretty disappointing reading month. Most of these were mediocre, and a number were plain bad. The only two that I would wholeheartedly recommend were the Reisner on water and the second of the marvellous chalet-school-on-Mars series that I loved so much last Christmas that I saved this one for this Christmas. It was, like it's predecessor, my favourite of the month. It was not as good. Some of the plotting needed more work, but still hugely enjoyable. Cadillac Desert could, perhaps should have, beaten it, but it was a little too long, and too unwieldly in the middle. It was, however, fascinating, and very well told in most of the parts. I would be uneasy as an inhabitant of the American West right now.
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