Winter walking book?

[Extollager]

Perhaps some people here go to an indoor place to walk during the cold and wet months. Most of us here are Northern hemisphere folk, I believe, so that means some of us are heading into those months (for some people, winter is maybe just a matter of a few wet weeks).

Anyway, if you have a place where you go walking in winter and you sometimes read there, would you like to tell us where you walk and what you have read or expect to read?

Two winters back, I read William Wootten's selection, with commentary, of poems by Walter de la Mare. Last winter, Mary Renault's Fire from Heaven was the book for taking along. (I found my mind wandered when I read it at home under usual conditions, so getting to a place with no distractions helped me to finish a book I wanted to read to please a friend.)

My walking place is a church basement a few blocks from where I live.

This year I expect to take along either de la Mare's anthology Behold, This Dreamer! or the complete letters of Keats. (I've taken up the anthology more than once and it's good, but somehow I never stick with it. I'm leaning towards taking it up again, partly because it's a lightweight trade paperback where the Keats letters -- 2 volumes -- are hardcovers.)

 

[hitmouse]

In Wales the weather may not be as extreme as the Great Plains. It gets cold, dark, wet and windy for several months, and we do not cope well with snow, but it rarely gets that far below freezing. Indoor walking is not really a thing here. If it is not wet then we wrap up warm and go for a walk on the beach, through the woods, or up the hills. It is a good time of year to observe birds in the local wetlands.
Important to get fresh air and daylight on my face on the weekend: it is now dark when I go to work and dark when I leave.

I do not have particular winter reading but this is a good one. A country walk in wintertime looking at common trees.

 

[Extollager]

That's not a Little Toller book, Hitmouse, is it? It looks like it could be. (A friend follows their releases, but I have bought only their Copsford reprint.)

As for my own indoor walking book, I've ruled out the Keats -- the book really is too heavy for the purpose. Maybe Thoreau's Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, skipping some Transcendental material. I've had a copy almost 50 years (bought 18 Feb 76) and never yet read it, but my favorite undergrad prof wrote his dissertation on it and I thought reading the latter afterwards might bring him a bit before my mind again. In general I don't think a novel would be best for a walking book, but something that can be picked up and set down conveniently without worrying about chapters, remembering plot details, etc.

Below is the edition I have. There are no "decorations" inside except one on the title page.

 

[Extollager]

The de la Mare I'm leaning towards reading. This an previous image from internet sources.