Many is the time I’ve called up Mark Avery’s blog on a Sunday and found not just one freshly published book review, but two. However today is the first time I can recall discovering one and a half.
The full review contain’s Mark’s assessment of Stephen Rutt‘s newly published The Eternal Season; Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future [sic missing Oxford comma] from that remarkable independent publishing house that’s responsible for so much fine nature writing in the UK these days – Elliott & Thompson. Indicating that he “liked this book very much but […] couldn’t fall in love with it,” Mark goes on to make it clear that this is not intended as a negative criticism of the book but a personal preference regarding writing styles he holds – a preference he elaborates upon which is quite interesting in and of itself.
Mark’s “half review” takes up the recently published paperback edition of Jim Crumley‘s The Nature of Summer from Saraband. Actually, if I’m honest, it’s not really a review so much as a statement of Mark’s increasing enthusiasm for Mr. Crumley’s books – of which there are a remarkable number presently available from Saraband.
Links to Dr. Mark Avery’s Sunday book reviews appear in The Well-read Naturalist by special arrangement. You can find all of Mark’s past reviews as well as a wide-ranging collection of his other writings on his Standing Up for Nature website. Mark’s opinions regarding the books he reviews are his own.
