The book sales of summer continue. The most recent one to come to appear is the New York University Press Summer Sale 2025 offering 60% off their books’ cover prices.
New York University Press’ Summer Sale 2025
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Mark and I Reflect Upon A Summer Past
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.”
Goshawk Summer
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.
Mark and a Half
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.