We don’t know about you but we tend to get over ambitious at times with books, especially reading them. Five or six books sitting proudly on the coffee table in living room each with a bookmark placed about 1/3 into the book. Each book calling your name when you plop down on the sofa to relax. You sit and stare back at them silently wondering how you will finish them all before they are due at the library. You get through one or two wonderful books but always feel like your not reading enough as you solemnly remove the bookmarks form the remaining three and whisk them off and into the return slot at the library. So this year it’s only one book at a time- from front to back- all the way though.
We recently came across a wonderful four part series on the best nature books of 2019 written by the Chicago Review of Books
. It is a very diverse list of nature books that will provide us some guidance in choosing and reading our one-book-at-a time in 2020.
Here are links to each of the four posts. The author of the articles Amy Brady stated in the part four of this series that this year has been the best in recent memory for nature writing. Looking though the lists is almost as fun as reading the books listed.
Part Four
Part Three
Part Two
Part One
Anything catch your eye as a first read from these lists. Maybe because it’s winter and darkness comes early the book Dark Skies: a journey into the wild night By Tiffany Francis-Baker sounds like it might be first up this year.
nature has no boss 
Thank you for posting this! I’ve ordered “The Eight Master Lessons of Nature” and look forward to reading it!
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Let us know what you think of the book. We found a few that were listed at the library just last week.
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I will. I have a large pile of books I hope to read in the coming year, and I may begin with this one.
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Thanks.
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Thanks for posting this. I’m a one book at a time person unless I’m reading non-fiction, and then I have to balance it with some fiction. And just because I check out four books from the library doesn’t mean I still don’t go at them one at a time! Love the photo of the books.
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We usually check out a variety of books. Some picture, some reference and some for pleasure. I am glad there is a list like the one we posted now need to find one for fiction we might enjoy.
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I’m going to explore “The Eight Master Lessons of Nature.” Thanks for the links and lists.
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Hi Patti, let us know what yo think of the book. We found a few in the library last week and are getting to work on them one at a time. Have a fine rest of your week.
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Have a nice reading, this is great. Thank you, Love, nia
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Hi and thanks. Let us know if you read anything form the list and how you liked it.
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