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.
One of the things I most enjoy about Mark Avery’s Sunday book reviews is his coverage in them of books that don’t always make it across the Atlantic. Such is the case once again with his review this week of Prof. Philip Howse’s “Bee Tiger; The Death’s Head Hawk-moth Through the Looking-glass” from Brambleby Books.
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.
Having recently read that a new volume of the New Naturalist Library was soon to be available, I had an intuition that Mark Avery already had a copy of it and would soon be publishing one of his Sunday Book Reviews about it. So paying a visit to his blog today I was not on the least surprised to discover that the subject of his most recent review is, of course, David Wilkinson’s “Ecology and Natural History,” New Naturalist Library volume 143.