Recent home library acquisition

Random book from our home library.

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 Requiem of the Rose King vol. 1 by Aya Kanno

I've never read manga but I found this retelling of the Wars of the Roses in a little free library and had to grab it.

Random book from our home library:

📖 Castles and Abbeys of Wales by D. J. Cathcart King

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US by James LaRue (signed by the author)

Started this about 10 days ago for work. Definitely not my usual.

Random book from our home library:

📖 An Encyclopedia of World History edited by William Langer

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

pp.170-71: '[Hardy] was always exceptionally anxious and sensitive about reviews.... He might have spared himself the trouble: the divide between those who disliked his language, his lower-class characters, his troubling women and his gloom, and those who appreciated the beauty and imaginative power of his work, was already there and remained firmly fixed throughout his career as a novelist.'

Random book from our home library:

📖 Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 Manifesto: The Battle for Green Britain (Revised and Updated) by Dale Vince

Random book from our home library:

📖 English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages by Hardin Craig

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 The Origin and Early History of Christianity in Britain by Andrew Gray

Random book from our home library:

📖 1966 and All That: All the Modern History You Can't Remember by Craig Brown

For reference, see 1066 and All That by Sellar & Yeatman

p. 147: '[Hardy's] is a voice that speaks to readers in many countries and to which successive generations have responded. With this voice Hardy established the territory in which he worked best in fiction, in which rural landscape is drawn with a naturalist's eye and country people are shown playing out their lives "between custom and education, between work and ideas, between love of place and experience of change."' (Raymond Williams)

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 The Little Book of Shakespeare

Random book from our home library:

📖 Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

This edition was my late grandfather's when he was a boy.

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 The Romance of Tristan by Béroul

LibraryThing says I have 65 books related to King Arthur and 149 Penguin Classics.

★★★☆☆

Greenblatt knows Shakespeare and Shakespeare knew the human condition; both are amply demonstrated here. But somehow, I was still left wanting. Perhaps it was the lack of clear connections between textual observations or between what the author had read in Shakespeare and witnessed in the real world, especially during the first Trump administration. It's not weak, but it could have been stronger.

Random book from our home library:

📖 Images of Faith: Art of the Latter-day Saints by Richard G. Oman & Robert O. Davis

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever selected and with introductions by Christopher Hitchens

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 Robin Hood (The Children's Classics) by anonymous, introduced by George Cockburn Harvey, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie

Random book from our home library:

📖 Robert Frost: Selected Poems (Gramercy Great Poets)

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Folklore of Glamorgan by Alan Roderick

Random book from our home library:

📖 Re-Viewing The Passion: Mel Gibson's Movie and its Critics edited by S. Brent Plate

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 The Anglo-Saxon State by James Campbell

Random book from our home library:

📖 Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture by Seamus Heaney

2013 review: ★★★★★

Random book from our home library:

📖 George Orwell: The First Complete Biography by Bernard Crick

p. 76 'Earlier in [Richard III], the Lieutenant of the Tower... receives a written directive that he turn over his prisoner... to the two thuggish-looking characters.... [He] knows perfectly well that his prisoner has not received a trial, fair or otherwise, but, handing the keys to the murderers, he asks no questions and offers no protest.... By multiple acts of this kind, taken by respectable people..., tyranny is enabled.'

Recent home library acquisition:

📖 From Old English to Standard English (second edition): A Course Book in Language Variation Across Time by Dennis Freeborn

Random book from our home library:

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

★★★★★

I'm excited that Macfarlane is touring his next book across the US and Canada soon!

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks

Recent acquisition:

📖 Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell

Random book from our home library:

📖 Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, and Other Things that Happened by Allie Brosh

2021 rating: ★★★☆☆

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Christian Mind by Harry Blamires

Recent acquisition:

📖 The Book of English Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm & Richard Heygate

Random book from our home library:

📖 London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Peter Ackroyd

Started listening

📖 Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

Had a long drive today - 25% in and loving it.

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Word Hord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen

Recent acquisition:

📖 The History & Treasures of Westminster Abbey (With a Record of the Coronation of Her Majesty the Queen) by Lawrence E. Tanner, Keeper of the Muniments and Library

Not sure if the tagged book is a different edition or a different book altogether but it was the closest thing I could find by the author.

Random book from our home library:

📖 Northumbria in the Days of Bede by Peter Hunter Blair

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Prelude: The Four Texts: 1798, 1799, 1805, 1850 by William Wordsworth

Recent acquisition:

📖 Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake

Random book from our home library:

📖 Six Middle English Romances edited by Maldwyn Mills

On Oct 30, 2024, I accidentally left this book in Los Angeles. It was easily replaceable but the Stonehenge bookmark from our first trip to England was not. Thanks to my cousin Summer, both book and bookmark arrived back at my house in Utah on Apr 26, 2025!

★★★★☆

Nice review of Francis's first couple years of public events.

Random book from our home library:

📖 Life in the Castle in Medieval England by John Burke

Recent acquisition:

📖 Green Arrow: A Celebration of 75 Years

Random book from our home library:

📖 Wild Hares & Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village by Stephen Moss