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Shelves…an important part of your home library. Stay safe in there!
Shelves…an important part of your home library. Stay safe in there!
I am enjoying this book; it‘s a history of paper and its impacts on culture around the world. However, every once in a while there‘s a sentence like this that drives me nuts. There‘s no predicate! It‘s just a string of phrases.
“Libraries are generally thought to be very quiet places…. Another way to think of a library, however, is as a world of frozen voices, captured and rendered accessible forever by one of the most powerful human developments of all time—the act of writing.”
A beautiful view of libraries, but I have to add that if the author thinks of libraries as only figuratively noisy, they‘ve never been to storytime or the teen section mid-afternoon!
“The quill moving over the paper made a faint scratching sound, then almost a squeak as the pen was pulled backward suddenly at an odd angle to cross out a word.” #firstlinefridays
#lastfirst Two very different books! Finished the year with a light romance, and started with local history.
About to enjoy one of my Christmas presents! My wonderful Mother made me this Anne of Green Gables pillow case🙂
This picture beside the table of contents just made me so happy:) Lovely way to start the book.
I love when I find little nuggets like this when I‘m cataloguing!
Late to the party with this one, but it‘s still Friday in my time zone!
It‘s a coincidence, but it feels appropriate to have started this book on the week of Remembrance Day.
#firstlinefridays
Reading this reminded me of my great-grandmother who didn‘t write a letter; she went to the local recruiting officer and bawled him out for letting my great-grandfather sign up when he knew he was needed at home. She did get him un-signed up.
“There are two things wrong with that approach. One is that being dead isn‘t glorious. The other is that the system that produced those old wars and consumed all those lives isn‘t dead at all.”
A tiring, but happy, birthday. My sister knows me so well; this was her present that I opened while wearing my hobbit skirt that she got me last year:)
I know it was important, but not sure that‘s how I‘d want to go down in history!
The relationship between faith and the study of nature was-and remains-a complex one…. Disputed ideas have occasionally caused conflict, of course. But to imagine ‘science‘ and ‘religion‘ as two separate, inevitably antagonistic opponents, or to suggest that such closed-mindedness as does exist has always been on the side of religion, is far too simplistic. The Middle Ages were much more than battles and black boils.
“Derek Price, they said, was ‘not socially house-trained‘.” #firstlinefridays
So excited to dive into this one!
I‘m all for collaboration, experimentation, and curiosity… but I have some health and safety concerns with dissections at the coffeehouse.
pickI really enjoyed this overview of Anglo-Saxon England (perhaps especially because I watched the end of The Last Kingdom with my Mom this Summer, so I got to share random facts with her about the background for the show). Laying that aside, though, Morris does a good job of showing how Anglo-Saxon society developed over time and the ways in which it doesn‘t quite fit the mold we‘ve cast for it.
#firstlinefridays It‘s a story he likes to tell, how he first came to Hagenburg, how he bought his freedom, how he started as a stonecutter‘s apprentice, working at the Cathedral.
pickAs you can probably tell from the number of quotes I‘ve posted from this book, I really liked this one. I thought it did a good job of balancing details (some of them surprising!) and a broad overview of the long history of the Hudson‘s Bay Company from its founding to the end of its monopoly.
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