B is for...

beach

• things found there

birds

• red kite hawk (circling, wing tips)

• wren

boats

• in literature

bodhrán

bones

books

• mentioned:

  • A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

  • A Place Of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel

  • Barbarians at the Gate, Burrough/Helyar

  • Buried, Alice Roberts

  • Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, Mark Forsyth

  • East of Eden, John Steinbeck

  • Hidden Landscapes, Richard Fortey

  • Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmuss

  • Mudlarking, Lara Maiklem

  • Outline, Rachel Cusk

  • The Overstory, Richard Powers

  • People, Peter Spier

  • The Shipping News, Annie Proulx

  • Skyfaring, Mark Vanhoenacker

  • The Wild Places, Robert Macfarlane

  • Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

  • The Women at Oxford: A fragment of history, Vera Brittain

  • Zen and the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel

• book clubs

• bookshelves, mine

• on buying second-hand books, the act of

• on novels invoking empathy

• on reading books, the act of

• on second-hand book shops (see also: Hay-on-Wye)

• on writing books, the act of

brain

Bruegel

• at the Kunsthistorisches Museum

• at the Louvre

broken

• bones

• pottery

Brooklyn

• Coney Island

• visting…