It’s not unheard of for Mark Avery and I to have found ourselves unexpectedly – as they say in the ad biz – “in sync” when it comes to a book we choose to write about on a particular day.
So it seems that it is this present Sunday in the selection by both of us of James Aldred’s recently published “Goshawk Summer; A New Forest Season Unlike Any Other.”
For some – well, perhaps all aside from humans, that is – the summer of 2020 was indeed a summer worth remembering, for in the withdrawal of humans from active life in the world, the rest of the planet’s creatures once again had a chance to live their lives in a way they haven’t been able to do for centuries.
As he not uncommonly does, Mark Avery published not one but two Sunday book reviews this week. In his second review for the week, he looks forward to Lev Parikian’s forthcoming “Light Rains Sometimes Fall: a British Year Through Japan’s 72 Seasons,” scheduled to be published this coming September by Elliott & Thompson.
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.