Recent acquisitions (50% off all hardbacks at my local right now!):
📖 Viking: Hammer of the North by Magnus Magnusson
📖 The Celts: Life, Myth and Art by Juliette Wood
📖 Timpson's England: A Look Beyond the Obvious by John Timpson
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme
📖 The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation by Ian Mortimer
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
📖 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever edited and with introductions by Christopher Hitchens
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pick★★★★★
Excellent programme from David Gilmour's current tour. My wife and I were able to attend the Pink Floyd guitarist's Hollywood Bowl gig last week.
The programme isn't listed in Litsy, so I have tagged Gilmour's son's 2020 memoir, which I enjoyed.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People by Charlie Campbell
📖 Dramas of Testimony: The Dance of Death I & II / Advent / Easter / There are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg
📖 English Hours by Henry James
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Marie Borroff
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My wife and I visited yesterday on my cousin's recommendation. It was great!
Acquisitions to follow in another post or two.
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Recent acquisitions (gifts from my friend Shawn):
📖 Seven Victorian Poets by David Wright
📖 O'Brien Pocket History of Ireland by Breandán Ó hEithir
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Recent acquisitions (gifts from my friend Shawn):
📖 The Elizabethan World edited by Susan Doran and Norman Jones (my former professor)
📖 American Religious Humanism (Revised Edition) by Mason Olds
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Recent acquisitions (top to bottom):
📖 Magna Carta by Jones
📖 The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485 (The Oxford History of England) by Jacob
📖 The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399 (The Oxford History of England) by McKisack
📖 Domesday Book to Magna Carta 1087- 1215 (The Oxford History of England) by Poole
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages by Hardin Craig
📖 Handbook of Middle English by Fernand Mossé
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pick★★★★★
A simple story about friendship, place, and the excitement of young love in the autumn before adulthood.
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Recent birthday acquisitions:
📖 The Mystery of King Arthur by Elizabeth Jenkins
📖 The Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology, Selected and Introduced by Richard Barber
📖 Robin Hood and the White Cat
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Recent birthday acquisitions:
📖 Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life by Ralph Pite
📖 The Poetical Works of John Keats
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My wife and I have been slowly reading this with our two youngest kids for a while now.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Capitalism's Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian edited by Des Freedman
📖 The Leveller Revolution by John Rees
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Recent acquisitions from San Antonio:
📖 Welcome to the Book of Common Prayer by Vicki K. Black
📖 Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul by John Philip Newell
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse On a Scottish Isle by Mary J. MacLeod
📖 Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey (I already had a copy of this nature classic set in my home state but I just had to get this British edition with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane, one of my favourite writers.)
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p. 78: '[Hardy] could no longer believe, but he cherished the memory of belief, and especially the centrality and beauty of Christian ritual in country life, and what it had meant to earlier generations and still meant to some.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 A Documentary History of England Vol. 1 (1066-1540) by J. J. Bagley and P. B. Rowley
📖 A Documentary History of England Vol. 2 (1559-1931) by E. N. Williams
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p. 63: '[Hardy] went several times to hear Dickens read... and to hear John Stuart Mill speak on the hustings, and to the House of Commons to listen to Lord Palmerston. When Palmerston died, he got tickets for the funeral in Westminster Abbey, very conscious of the fact that the great man had stood in the House with Pitt, Fox, Sheridan and Burke. It was the personal link always that stirred Hardy's interest in history.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation (Revised and Enlarged) edited by Vincent F. Hopper
📖 Villette by Charlotte Brontë
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pickBlankets was banned in all Utah K-12 schools in August, 2024. I feel so strongly about intellectual freedom that I'm going to share some very personal insights. Warning: tough topics ahead.
'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.'
- James Baldwin, As Much Truth As One Can Bear
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p. xxii-xxiii: 'Hardy was a writer who made many of his best efforts out of incidents and stories he had collected and put aside, sights stored up, feelings he had kept to himself, anger he had not shown to the world. [As a poet] he is like an archeologist uncovering objects that have not been seen for many decades, bringing them into the light, examining them, some small pieces, some curious bones and broken bits, and some shining treasures.' ⬇️
p. 122: 'The universe is so structured that things do not quite work out rightly if men are not diligent in their concern for others. The self cannot be self without other selves. I cannot reach fulfillment without thou. Social psychologists tell us that we cannot truly be persons unless we interact with other persons. All life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.'
pp. 112-113: '[The American people] have been persuaded to accept token victories as indicative of genuine and satisfactory progress.... ["Tokenism"] is a pallative which relieves emotional distress, but leaves the disease and its ravages unaffected. It tends to demobilize and relax the militant spirit which alone drives us forward to real change.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Keep the the Faith, Change the Church: The Battle by Catholics for the Soul of their Church by James E. Muller & Charles Kenney
📖 Butler's Lives of the Saints (Concise Edition Revised and Updated) edited by Michael Walsh
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'New eyes each year
Find old books here,
And new books, too,
Old eyes renew;
So youth and age
Like ink and page
In this house join,
Minting new coin.'
Philip Larkin
'In times when nothing stood
but worsened, or grew strange,
there was one constant good:
she did not change.'
1952-1977 by Philip Larkin
'...
Life is an immobile, locked,
Three-handed struggle between
Your wants, the world's for you, and (worse)
The unbeatable slow machine
That brings what you'll get. Blocked,
They strain round a hollow stasis
Of havings-to, fear, faces.
Days sift down it constantly. Years.'
The Life with a Hole in it by Philip Larkin
Started today
If you follow me, you know that sci-fi is not my usual reading. But climate change is my top issue so my good friend and fellow librarian, Shawn, gave me this for my birthday in 2021. In 2023, he and I met Robinson after a talk at the University of Utah and I was able to get it signed.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Shakespeare by Michael Wood
📖 The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett, illustrated by Graham Rust
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'...
Life is first boredom, then fear.
Whether or not we use it, it goes
...'
Dockery and Son by Philip Larkin
pick★★★★★
I received a free copy of this book through LibraryThing in exchange for a review.
Piesse has written a wonderful, meandering exploration of the Darwin family, their childhood garden in Shrewsbury, her own journey into motherhood as an academic, garden labour and the people who do it, and the importance of place and the living world as we all face the crisis of global heating. ⬇️
Recent acquisitions:
📖 A Long Way from Tipperary: What a Former Monk Discovered in His Search for Truth by John Dominic Crossan
📖 Six Middle English Romances by Maldwyn Mills
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W. B. Yeats
📖 England at Large by Ethel Mannin
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Last of the Celts by Marcus Tanner
📖 High Road to England by Richard Faber
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On page 161 (50% done)
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture by Prince Charles
📖 The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill by Dominique Enright
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Saturday is the start of the season for my team! They're a fan-owned club in the 8th tier of the English football pyramid. Though I live many miles away across the pond, I'm grateful to be able to follow match updates in real time on X (go away, Elon) and occasionally on Internet radio. Kickoff is at 8 AM in Utah / 3 PM in Dorset. #UpTheMagpies #WeAreDorch ❤️🏴⚽️
Recent acquisitions:
📖 London Lore: The Legends and Traditions of the World's Most Vibrant City by Steve Roud
📖 Pilgrimage Pamphlets No. 4: London Part 3: The City Pilgrimage by Laurance Goulder
📖 Ghosts of London by Jonathan Sunderland
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Robin Hood (Eyewitness Classics) by Philip, illustrated by Harris (my 70th RH book)
📖 Fifteenth-Century England 1399-1509: Studies in Politics and Society by Chrimes, Ross, and Griffiths
📖 The Gawain-Poet (Medieval and Renaissance Authors) by Wilson
📖 The Life and Times of Richard III by Cheetham
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