Books I’ve been reading recently :
June 2007 :
Historic Photos of Washington, D.C. by Matthew Gilmore and Andrew Brodie Smith
Life in the English Country House by Mark Girouard
Ethan, Suspended by Pamela Ehrenberg
Liverpool 800: Culture, Character & History edited by John Belchem
The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean by Paul Theroux
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
May 2007 :
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
April 2007 :
How To Cook a Wolf by M F K Fisher
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Glasgow: The Forming of a City by Peter Reed
The Decorative Tile in Architecture and Interiors by Tony Herbert and Kathryn Huggins
The Gorbals: Historical Guide and Heritage Walk by Ronald Smith
March 2007 :
Along the Great Western Road: An Illustrated History of Glasgow’s West End by Gordon R. Urquhart
Coventry Cathedral: Art and Architecture in Post-war Britain by Louise Campbell
Basil Spence, 1907-1976 by Brian Edwards
Creating a Future for the Past: The Scottish Architects’ Papers Preservation Project by The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints by Joan Acocella
“Renewal of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek,” Arkitektur DK (Vol. 6, October 2006)
February 2007 :
Bleak House by Charles Dickens (still)
A Guide to The Mansfield Traquair Centre by Duncan Thomson, Elizabeth Cumming and Fiona Allardyce
The Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Colin McWilliam and David Walker
The Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow by Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Ritches and Malcolm Higgs
January 2007 :
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Hyndland: Edwardian Glasgow Tenement Suburb by Ann Laird
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell by Deborah Solomon
Niernsee and Neilson, Architects of Baltimore: Two Careers on the Edge of the Future by Randolph W. Chalfant and Charles Belfoure
2 responses so far ↓
Matthew Gilmore // 14 June, 2007 at 3:40 am
And what’s your opinion?
mkuhnert // 2 July, 2007 at 3:37 pm
It’s terrific, Matthew, thanks so much for sending it to us. I’ve had a touch of homesickness these last few months and it was a pleasant treat to look through the book and compare it to the lived city that I know so well and miss so much.