The list

I didn't manage to read much over the mid-semester break (although I did write a week's worth of lectures, so I achieved something.) My stack of books is growing at the same pace as the weeds in the back garden.

This is the crop at the moment:

• Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal summer
• Barbara Kingsolver, The poisonwood bible
• Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's ghost
• Leonardo Padura, Havana red
• Natalie Angier, The canon: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science
• Christopher Kremmer, The carpet wars
• Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath and John West-Sooby, Encountering Terra Australia: the Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders (recommended by Sophie)

The following are on their way to join the crop:

• Sean B. Carroll, Endless forms most beautiful
• Mark Cocker, Crow country
• Roger Deakin, Wildwood

And these are about to move from 'to buy' list to the crop:

• Ian Rankin, Exit music
• Val McDermid, Beneath the bleeding
• Lee Child, Killing floor
• William Hague, William Wilberforce

That should keep me quiet for the next few weeks ...