★★★★☆
It was the experience of a lifetime to be led on a tour of Elizabethan sites in England in June, 2023 by the author, my undergraduate professor many years ago.
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★★★★☆
It was the experience of a lifetime to be led on a tour of Elizabethan sites in England in June, 2023 by the author, my undergraduate professor many years ago.
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Recent acquisitions by Robert Gittings:
📖 Young Thomas Hardy
📖 Thomas Hardy's Later Years
I already had these in a somewhat battered combined edition so I was beyond excited to find these beautiful first edition hardbacks with dust jacket covers at a local charity shop for only a few dollars! To whoever donated them - thank you! They will be cherished for a lifetime!
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P. 165: The legislative control of sin: 'The protection of the Commonwealth was a secular issue, which made protecting the nation from God's wrath similar to protecting it from a Spanish invasion. It became increasingly important that magistrates protect God's honor lest He rain pestilence, famine, war, and recession on England.'
Page 157: 'To see the Crown and lay people greedily snatching up church property, even if justified by higher ideals, must have bred an opportunistic state of mind and a flexible conscience. To acquire a dissolved chantry and close the village school was not an act of piety. Some people tried to expiate their greed with new schools and other gifts, but the example remained negative.'
Page 153: '[John Donne's] third satire is a pointed interrogation of religion, with its insistence that there is truth but it is not taught by theological factions. "Fool and wretch," he asks, ⬇️
Page 147: 'In practice the communities of England looked less like the New Jerusalem than like confessionally confused commonwealths in which people of various opinions about ecclesiology and soteriology mixed indiscriminately and used religion when it was convenient.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them by Robert A. Orsi
📖 The Hiding Places of God: A Personal Journey into the World of Religious Visions, Holy Objects, and Miracles by John Cornwell
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★★★☆☆
I bought this and read it to explore the clash of native worldview with Christianity in early mediaeval Ireland. The story was interesting and the writing was moving at times. It would have earned a higher rating if 1) it's central framing device wasn't that a pagan woman's writings somehow survived mediaeval Christianity into modern times in order to be translated by Horsely (so very unlikely that it borders on fantasy), ⬇️
Recent acquisitions:
📖 London's Lost Rivers by Paul Talling
📖 Suffolk Summer by John T. Appleby
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Harvest by Jim Crace
📖 Eight Modern Writers (Oxford History of English Literature) by J.I.M. Stewart
📖 Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Lindisfarne Gospels by Janet Backhouse
📖 7 ½ Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick (on my wish list for a few years)
📖 Another Brick in the Wall: The Stories Behind Every Pink Floyd Song by Cliff Jones (read this 25 years ago!)
📖 Atheism (20th Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism) by Étienne Borne
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Badger Knight by Kathryn Erskine
📖 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Monarch Notes)
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Recent Penguin Monarchs acquisitions (only $2 each!):
📖 Stephen by Watkins
📖 Henry II by Barber
📖 Richard I by Ambridge
📖 Henry III by Church
📖 Henry VI by Ross
📖 Edward IV by Pollard
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★★★★☆
Ingenious. So completely outside my normal reading. Recommended by my friend, Shawn.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Essential Erasmus: Selected and Translated with Introduction and Commentary by John P. Dolan (gift from my good friend Shawn)
📖 Ecohumanism (Volume 15 of Humanism Today) edited by Robert B. Tapp
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
📖 The Conquerers by Thomas B. Costain
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Recent fiction acquisitions:
📖 The Sword with the Golden Hilt by Margery Evernden
📖 The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The English Mediaeval Parish Church by G. H. Cook
📖 My Latin Mass Prayer Book by Bart Tesoriero
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The new library building where I work opened to the public on Monday morning (this photo taken 36 hours earlier). Casually talked about for 25 years, seriously talked about for 15 years, actively created for the last 4 years. I'm so happy and so tired. #LitsyLibrarians
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Caxton: The Description of Britain: A Modern Rendering by Marie Collins
📖 Imeall am Domhain: Walking at the Edge of the World by T.P. O'Conchúir and Aimee Ericson
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks by Michael Patrick O'Brien
📖 The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha (New Revised Standard Version)
📖 Twenty One Saints by Aloysius Croft
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
📖 Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks (this is a rare case of buying the book after having read it. ★★★★★)
📖 The English Nation: The Great Myth by Edwin Jones
📖 Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
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★★★☆☆
I listened to the audiobook. I didn't engage as deeply with its ideas as I would have liked. I hope to re-read it at some point.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Getting Started with Latin: Beginning Latin for Homeschoolers and Self-Taught Students of Any Age by William E. Linney
📖 Brian Boru: Emperor of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 My History: A Memory of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
📖 Essex Churches and Chapels: A Select Guide by Members of the Friends of Essex Churches
📖 How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
📖 The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Porter
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I'm honoured to be the recipient of the 2024 Cache Valley Library Association Library Hero Award, presented each January to someone who has given "notable service to libraries in Cache Valley."
I love this organisation and have so much respect for its members and the good work they do in our area. Long may it continue.
https://cachelibraries.blogspot.com/p/library-heroes.html
Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Owl Service by Alan Gardner (recommended by Robert Macfarlane & @Bookwomble)
📖 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World by N.T. Wright
📖 Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor
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'We are simply seeking to bring into full realization the American dream--a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men no longer argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character... ⬇️
'The method of nonviolent resistance is effective in that it has a way of disarming the opponent, it exposes his moral defenses, it weakens his morale and at the same time it works on his conscience. ⬇️
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Dracula by Bram Stoker (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), edited by John Paul Riquelme
📖 The Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson
📖 The Anglo-Saxon Age (A Very Short Introduction) by John Blair
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
📖 The Celts: Conquerors of Ancient Europe
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Country: A Novel by Michael Hughes
📖 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (I collect editions of Tess and this is my 30th)
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. Volume I. Part 2. by Edward, Earl of Clarendon (published in Oxford in 1731)
📖 England, England by Diana Anderson (a bespoke board book written in the style of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by my 22-year-old daughter, a primary school teaching-in-training, which references our very special 2016 trip)
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Cultural Atlas of the Viking World by Colleen Batey, Helen Clarke, R. I. Page, Neil S. Price, edited by James Graham-Campbell
📖 The Folk Arts of Norway (second enlarged edition with 219 illustrations including 20 in full color) by Janice S. Stewart
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XXIX
Pour away that youth
That overflows the heart
Into hair and mouth;
Take the grave's part,
Tell the bone's truth.
Throw away that youth
That jewel in the head
That bronze in the breath;
Walk with the dead
For fear of death.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by Angus Konstam
📖 Atlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood, foreword by Barry Cunliffe
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★★★★★
I would love to read a collection of full-length interviews and speeches.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: selected, translated, and adapted by Barbara Cohen, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
📖 Atlas of British History: Comprehensive Coverage from 54 B.C. to the Present Day by Martin Gilbert
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Earliest English Poetry: A Critical Survey of the Poetry Written Before the Norman Conquest, with Illustrative Translations by Charles W. Kennedy
📖 Celtic Way of Life by Angus McMahon
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Richard II and the Revolution of 1399 by Michael Bennett
📖 Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) by William F. Murphy [recommended by Colm Toíbín in his book Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, which I enjoyed]
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