New year, new ...

... new goals, new projects ... new lists ...

New books:

The Literary Companion ("A Think Book")
The Wildlife Companion (ditto)
Russian short stories (the Penguin classics edition)
Bel Canto (by Ann Patchett)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (Alice Munro)
Sandwich (Yisrael Aharoni) - a cookbook (of sorts)

... those were xmas prezzies; these have been bought since xmas:

David Blackburn: the sublime landscape (by Charlotte Mullins) - one of my favourite artists
An Intimate History of Humanity (Theodore Zeldin) - an "investigation of emotions and personal relationships"
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Simon Winchester) - San Francisco earthquake, 1906
Saving Fish from Drowning (Amy Tan)
The Lobster Chronicles: life on a small island (by ???) - lobster fishing in Maine
The Saxon Shore Way (photos by Fay Godwin)

... and these are waiting to be read, joining the pile beside the bed:

The Murder Room (by PD James)
The Last Family in England (Matt Haig)
Monkey (Wu Cheng-En)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Susannah Clarke)
The Early Arrival of Dreams (Rosemary Mahoney)
Pentimento (Lillian Hellman)
The Madness of a Seduced Woman (Susan Fromberg Schaeffer)
Giving up the Ghost (Hilary Mantel)
Colour (Victoria Finlay)

... started but not finished:

Without Reservations: the travels of an independent woman (Alice Steinbach)
Field Study (Rachel Seiffert)
Soul Mountain (Gao Xingjian)
Miss Tu (Lin Yutang)
Murderers and Other Friends (John Mortimer)
Bright Earth (Philip Ball)
1421 (Gavin Menzies)
Krakatoa (Simon Winchester)