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Happy Friday (best day of the week)! Here's another recent acquistion for our personal library. Our son gave me this for my birthday.

And yet another book I‘ve had on my shelves for YEARS. I‘m loving it so far!

I loved this book. Which would-be contemplative isn't familiar with some of the words of Julian of Norwich or other anchoresses, and yet I had never thought in great detail about what it must have involved. I loved the theme of the body being inescapable and eventually part of worship of God. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I couldn't finish it. Too many characters to remember. The narration was at times fluid: Dante Alighieri's adventures occasionally stopped for explanations, descriptions of the places, the landscapes that surrounded him, the customs and traditions. After that the story returned to Dante Alighieri and I was so lost with all those useless explanations, that every time I had to go back several pages to understand where I had left off.

Random book from our home library:

📖 One Hundred Middle English Lyrics edited with an introduction by Robert D. Stevick

The library was closed! 😭 And it's generally going to be closed on Saturdays because of a labour dispute. I self-soothed by buying from the sales table at the already slightly cheaper, less fancy bookstore. I was really looking forward to stocking up for my trip to Cape Town next weekend.

Oh and I Capture the Castle was a farmer's market buy earlier 🙂

(Photo is my journal, with one of the fabulous Dante stickers my daughter made for me. ❤️)
I enjoyed this meticulous book's painstaking sifting of all the extant sources for the facts of Dante's life. Look elsewhere for discussion of his works: this is strictly biographically-focused. Personally, I appreciated being given some context for the creation of his extraordinary Divine Comedy. (Turns out he didn't beam down from outer space/Paradiso! 😄)

Oh hello, Dante; is that you again?
Apparently this is how Venus retrograde is manifesting in my life, courtesy of BorrowBox. 😄

Absolutely the most beautiful ornament for a book lover! This one‘s made with maps, but there are others made with book pages. Just gorgeous and the perfect way to memorialize my big trip to Greece this summer. You can find the Etsy shop at BookologyCo if you are looking for a gift for a book or travel lover. 😊