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She was NOT. Dude, really?! 🫢 Must be a very old family name.Wouldn't see anyone choosing that today...
She was NOT. Dude, really?! 🫢 Must be a very old family name.Wouldn't see anyone choosing that today...
I went overboard at the charity shop's book sale but there was a lot more choice than usual on the English book shelves. I think someone (probably American) must have moved away.
I left all the autobiographies of US politicians and business people and all the romances for others....
pickIn 1982, despite an absence of boating experience, Jonathan Raban decided to sail around England. Here he presents his travels on sea and stops on land in a snapshot from a different era. He also does a little random noodling. I enjoyed it.
pickMedieval legends of the history of Britain re-told and in some cases re-created from allusions elsewhere by Amy Jeffs, who after each story explains sources and connections with other tales and also her experience of some of the places the stories happened.
Some of the stories were completely new to me, some were vaguely familiar, and some were immediately recognisable. Sure to be enjoyed by anyone interested in folklore, myth, and legend.
I'm not up on a lot of modern pop, but I enjoy Hailee Steinfeld's music, almost as much as her acting. This is a smooth summer tune featuring the always delightful anderson .paak
#tuesdaytunes
https://youtu.be/DwfPlzQ1x_g?si=aFWnRLyEcZBxZ8Om
Been a long time (life stuff, you get it) but now I am in need of recs!
I'm teaching an English class to international students this summer and I am looking for book/movie/tv recommendations with "typically british" culture suitable for teens.
Tia x
pickEverybody needs to read this book! It is inspiring, informative and beautifully written. The best thing I've read this year 💚💚💚
#BookHaul from various York bookshops. I was pleased to get the Goreys from The Little Apple. We visited an exhibition about the Star Carr Mesolithic settlement and I got relevant books from the museum shop.
"A Book of Verse" from Minster Gate books is a publishing history of Fitzgerald's Khayyám. Also from there, Blackwood's "The Willows & Other Queer Stories", & "A Literary & Historical Atlas of North & South America", a cartographic gem ??
