The Books That I Read in August

 

I do love a book with it's own bookmark ribbon.  😄

Fingers in the Sprinkle Jar by Chris Packham

I found this book very 'bitty', Chris jumps from timeline to timeline over his early years and I didn't enjoy this side of it at all.  I didn't read it all fully and gave up completely about two thirds of the way in.  It could have been so much better.

Donated

Slimming One Pound Meals by Miguel Barclay

While I do like Miguel's books I am being a bit ruthless in the ones that I am keeping.  I no longer find myself needing to have or to keep every book that a person I like reading or cooking from writes.

Donated

Cooking on a Bootstrap by Jack Monroe

I have all of Jack's books and regularly make things from them, but I had two copies of this book.  This copy is one of the original 'crowdfunded' editions so I have kept this and donated the other hardbacked copy that came out afterwards.

Kept the original, and Donated this one.

5 Ingredients 10 Minutes by Jules Clancy

While some of the recipes in this book seemed really good, reading it again six years after I originally bought it I decided that some were just so basic they could barely be considered a recipe.

For instance, take a bag of mixed leaves and top with a flaked cooked salmon portion and pour over a little lemon juice as a dressing.  To me this is an idea not a recipe.

Donated

Dinner's ON! by Barry Lewis

This wasn't a bad book by any means, but it was quite meat heavy and it was big. I don't eat meat and I am still on a mission to cut down on my big books and whittle down my cookbook collection.

So, it was Donated.

Only Connect The Official Quiz Book by Jack Waley-Cohen

I was lucky enough to find this book on the £1 charity book table in Booths.  I love the show and watch it religiously every week, so to be able to 'play' the game myself was really good.  I did quite well ...in everything except The Wall.

Donated ... back to where it came from for someone else to enjoy.

Thinking On My Feet by Kate Humble

My final book of the month and finished just yesterday, was this one year diary of Kate Humble's walks, both local to her in this country and overseas when she travelled for work engagements.  It was a really good read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

But I would never have read it again, so it was Donated.

All in all a good month of reading with more cookbooks than usual as I am trying to whittle down my collection so that I don't clutter up my soon-to-be new kitchen. 😄

I do find myself in a position these days to be able to be quite ruthless with the books that I keep.  Maybe I am simply becoming a book reader, and not always a reader and collector.  They can on occasion be two entirely different but compatible hobbies.

Which are you?

Sue xx