Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
bibliothecarivs

bibliothecarivs

Joined August 2020

LibraryThing member bibliothecarivs

TinyCat library

¹husband ²father ³friend ⁴ally ⁵anglophile ⁶mediævalist ⁷librarian ⁸humanist ⁹green ¹⁰socialist, &c. · Utah, USA · bibliothecarivs.blogspot.com
blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 Wales: The First Place by Jan Morris & Paul Wakefield

quote
bibliothecarivs
On Care for Our Common Home: Laudato Si | Jorge (Pope Francis) Bergoglio
post image

p. 5: '[Francis of Assisi] shows us just how inseparable the bond is between concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society, and interior peace.'

blurb
bibliothecarivs
The Quest for Merlin | Nikolai Tolstoy
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy

Bookwomble I have this one, too 😊 I read it in the '80s during my peak Arthurian phase, so it's a bit hazy now, but I remember enjoying it. Have you read the tagged? It's Tolstoy's fantasy retelling of the Merlin story based on Welsh traditions, and I really enjoyed this one. It was intended as the first in a trilogy, which was sadly sidelined when he lost a libel suit. 21h
bibliothecarivs @Bookwomble, I have not read that one. Your description made me think of The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, which I did read about 30 years ago for school and enjoyed. (edited) 20h
6 likes2 comments
blurb
bibliothecarivs
The Mormon Book of Lists | Jay A. Parry, Larry E. Morris
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Mormon Book of Lists by Jay A. Parry & Larry E. Morris

blurb
bibliothecarivs
On Care for Our Common Home: Laudato Si | Jorge (Pope Francis) Bergoglio
post image

Started

📖 Laudato Si' : On Care For Our Common Home by Pope Francis

blurb
bibliothecarivs
Robin Hood | Walt Disney, Walt Disney Company
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 Robin Hood by the Walt Disney Company

I collect RH books and this is my 72nd.

Ruthiella I loved this movie as a kid. 😍 3d
5 likes1 comment
blurb
bibliothecarivs
The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 | Maud Gonne, Anna MacBride White
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938 edited with introductions by Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution by Frank O'Connor

2010 review: ★★★★★

blurb
bibliothecarivs
The Prestige | Christopher Priest
post image

Last Friday, I watched Christopher Nolan's The Prestige for the first time in more than 15 years. ★★★★☆ #FridayFilms

blurb
bibliothecarivs
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics | Stephen Greenblatt
post image

Started

📖 Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt

'Why would anyone, [Shakespeare] asked himself, be drawn to a leader manifestly unsuited to govern, someone dangerously impulsive or viciously conniving or indifferent to the truth?'

Lcsmcat Sounds fascinating. Stacked. 6d
8 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N. T. Wright

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Thomas Hardy: The Complete Novels in One Sitting

I bought this little book in the British Museum in 2016. Though it seems from the title that it might contain the complete Hardy canon, in reality, it just has synopses of all his novels. Unfortunately, they're not all accurate and I was highly disappointed. It now serves as my business card holder on my desk at the library where I work.

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

It was inspiring to hear from Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and local candidates and activists in-person a few hours ago in Salt Lake City, along with 20,000 others. It's been 10 years since he first ran for President of the US and opened my eyes to the possibilities of democratic socialism. We're not surrendering to billionaire bullies! #FightOligarchy

Photo taken by our daughter.

Bookwomble ✊❤️✊ 1w
Dilara 🌞 1w
Ruthiella We‘re at a pivotal moment. 🤞❤️✊ 1w
TieDyeDude 💪 1w
8 likes4 comments
blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Illustrated Throughout in Full Colour) by William Blake

Bookwomble Ah, I love these poems. One of the few poems I'm able to commit to memory is "The Sick Rose" from this collection. It helps that it's only about 30 words! ?? 2w
bibliothecarivs @Bookwomble, I once had memorized The Garden of Love. I just looked it up and it's still as powerful as ever. I'll have to check out The Sick Rose. 2w
11 likes1 stack add2 comments
blurb
bibliothecarivs
The Serpent's Tale | Ariana Franklin
post image

Recent fiction acquisition:

📖 The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin

8 likes1 stack add
blurb
bibliothecarivs
Allen Brown's English Castles | Reginald Allen Brown
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Warwick Castle [souvenir guide - not in Litsy]

I have lots of souvenir guides to places in the UK that I've never visited. I believe I even have two different editions of this one. Have I mentioned that I'm an Anglophile bibliophile?

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

The last film I saw was Hitchcock's North by Northwest with my daughter at a local theatre that plays old films. It was great except that the DVD had problems halfway through and they had to stop the playback to fix it. #FridayFilms

Ruthiella Great movie! 2w
bibliothecarivs @Ruthiella, yes! I enjoyed it (and had seen it many times before). My 22 year old daughter wasn't impressed. 🤷‍♂️ 2w
9 likes2 comments
blurb
bibliothecarivs
This Is Shakespeare | Emma Smith
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 This is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright by Emma Smith

quote
bibliothecarivs
post image

p. 271: 'It was better to award a light penance that would one day put someone into purgatory to endure further punishment there, than to assign a heavy one that would not be done and might send the defaulter to hell.'

That's not what I expected from medieval confessors. Unfortunately, Orme doesn't cite his source for this attitude.

On to the section about Holy Week, which is obviously timely.

blurb
bibliothecarivs
Richard the Third | Paul Murray Kendall
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall

We originally had a paperback reprint but I later found this beautiful 1950s hardback - first edition? - at a local charity shop.

Ruthiella Nice find! 2w
10 likes1 comment
blurb
bibliothecarivs
Collected Poems | Edward Thomas
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Collected Poems of Edward Thomas

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

When I was thinking of what song to play as I traveled to my local Hands Off protest last Saturday, I remembered Sea Power's great track, Who's In Control?

'Sometimes I wish protesting was sexy on a Saturday night!'

Links below. #TuesdayTunes

bibliothecarivs The song in my head this morning is Praise for Whatever: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xbTCVcPU_zg 2w
TieDyeDude New-to-me band. Thanks for sharing. Hope you had a good turnout for the rally 5d
6 likes4 comments
blurb
bibliothecarivs
Twelfth Night, Or, What You Will | William Shakespeare
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 Twelfth Night (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare, edited by Jonathan Crewe

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Britain (LIFE World Library) by John Osborne

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Story of the Champions of the Round Table Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle

BooksandCoffee4Me I‘ve read many of the Arthur stories, but not Pyle‘s. It looks a bit daunting and yet, strangely compelling at the same time. 😊 3w
8 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
bibliothecarivs
In the Company of Crows and Ravens | John M. Marzluff, Tony Angell, Paul R. Ehrlich
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Great Tales from English History, Vol. 1: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More by Robert Lacey, illustrated by Fred van Deelen ★★★★★

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 Sun Dancing: A Vision of Medieval Ireland by Geoffrey Moorhouse

blurb
bibliothecarivs
Fabulae mirabiles | Victor Barocas
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Fabulae Mirabiles: Fairy Tales in Latin (Hippocrene Foreign Language Studies) by Victor Barocas

BooksandCoffee4Me Oh, this book is one for my son! He loves Latin and assisted his professor at a conference for instructors of Latin. He may or may not have translated an excerpt of Fahrenheit 451 into Latin for fun. 3w
bibliothecarivs @BooksandCoffee4Me, that's great! I'd like to see that if it's available anywhere. Here's the rest of my Latin collection if he's interested: https://www.librarycat.org/lib/bibliothecarivs/search/tag/Latin. 3w
5 likes2 comments
review
bibliothecarivs
post image
Mehso-so

★★★☆☆
I have a problem with the fact that the Irish were barely mentioned before page 70, that the author's main point didn't emerge until page 183 (this in a book of only 250 pages), and that the final 50 pages of core subject matter felt rushed. Also, the Irish didn't save civilisation in general as the title seems to say - they played a critical role in preserving Greek and Roman writings.

breadnroses What was the role of the Irish in preserving Greek/Roman texts? My understanding is that they were translated into Arabic, which later were (re)translated in Medieval Europe, but maybe this is oversimplified pop history… 3w
9 likes1 comment
blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle by Michael Jones

quote
bibliothecarivs
post image

Cahill finally getting to his thesis on page 183:

'While Rome and its ancient empire faded from memory and a new, illiterate Europe rose on its ruins, a vibrant, literary culture was blooming in secret along its Celtic fringe.'

blurb
bibliothecarivs
Strange Planet | Nathan W. Pyle
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Strange Planet by Nathan Pyle

blurb
bibliothecarivs
U2: The Rolling Stones Files | Rolling Stone Magazine
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 U2: The Rolling Stone Files: The Ultimate Compendium of Interviews, Articles Facts and Opinions from the Files of Rolling Stone

As a fan for nearly 30 years, this one has been on my radar for a long time. I couldn't pass up this British edition for only $1.99 at a local media store!

Ruthiella Can‘t beat that price! 👍 4w
7 likes1 comment
blurb
bibliothecarivs
England at Large | Ethel Mannin
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 England at Large by Ethel Mannin

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible by Harold Bloom

quote
bibliothecarivs
post image

p. 108: 'So Patrick was really a first - the first missionary to barbarians beyond the reach of Roman law. The step he took was in its way as bold as Columbus's, and a thousand times more humane.'

blurb
bibliothecarivs
Green Blades Rising | Kevin Crossley-Holland
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Green Blades Rising: The Anglo-Saxons by Kevin Crossley-Holland

blurb
bibliothecarivs
Once & Future Vol. 2 | Kieron Gillen
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Once & Future volume 2 by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton, With an Introduction and Notes on Its Structure and Meaning by John A. Himes

8 likes1 stack add
blurb
bibliothecarivs
Allen Brown's English Castles | Reginald Allen Brown
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Allen Brown's English Castles by R. Allen Brown

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Richard III: England's Black Legend by Desmond Seward

blurb
bibliothecarivs
The Stranger | Albert Camus
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 The Stranger by Albert Camus

review
bibliothecarivs
post image
Pickpick

★★★★★

? Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt"s Ireland by David Pritchard, forward by Malachy McCourt

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Regions of the Imagination: The Development of British Rural Fiction by W. J. Keith

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Recent acquisition:

📖 The Legend of Robin Goodfellow by Phineas Cricket

blurb
bibliothecarivs
Medieval English Verse and Prose in Modernized Versions | Roger Sherman Loomis, Rudolph Willard
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Medieval English Verse and Prose edited by Loomis & Willard

blurb
bibliothecarivs
post image

Random book from our home library:

📖 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, introduction by Marcelle Clements (Signet Classics)

12 likes1 stack add