Recent acquisitions:
📖 Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer
📖 A Lost Language and Other Essays on Chaucer by Sister Madeleva
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer
📖 A Lost Language and Other Essays on Chaucer by Sister Madeleva
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Page 45
'Yet after a brief tour of [Lindisfarne Castle], I encounter a familiar paradox: a tour of a fortress tires me, while a visit to a roofless priory somehow fortifies. Over the centuries, paths of pilgrims have tended to lead away from castles, not toward them.'
Started this. Reading with my friend, my daughter, and my son-in-law.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Folklore of Glamorgan by Alan Roderick
📖 Village Tales by Henry Williamson
📖 Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Welcome to the Episcopal Church: An Introduction to Its History, Faith, and Worship by Christopher L. Webber
📖 Walk in Love: Episcopal Beliefs and Practices by Scott Gunn and Melody Wilson Shobe
📖 My Faith My Life: A Teen's Guide to the Episcopal Church by Jennifer Gambler
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 My Struggle (Book One) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
📖 From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks
📖 Durkheim is Dead!: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Sociological Theory by Arthur Asa Berger
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Recent fiction acquisitions:
📖 My Life For My Sheep by Alfred Duggan
📖 The Rose Rent (The Thirteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael) by Ellis Peters
📖 The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders by Peter Ackroyd
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Page 10:
'I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the Bible, and the sense of sharing something profound with other people. I have long found deep spiritual peace in the great cathedrals, as do many millions of people, believers and nonbelievers alike.'
Page 65:
'The ideal Protestant minister had a degree, a wife and family, and he was in short supply until late in Elizabeth's reign.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco
📖 The Medieval Imprint: The Founding of the Western European Tradition by John B. Morrall
📖 The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453 by Desmond Seward
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'It's probably time we put the lie to the notion that all of us "independents" are so free from shepherds.... We are all following something, whether we know it or not. It is better to consciously choose who or what we are going to follow.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Mediaeval Mystics of England edited by Eric Colledge
📖 Building the “Goodly Fellowship of Faith“: A History of the Episcopal Church in Utah, 1867-1996 by Frederick Quinn [signed by the author]
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Book of Hours by John Harthan
📖 The Arthurian Book of Days: The Greatest Legend in the World Retold Throughout the Year by Caitlin & John Matthews
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Richard Burton: A Life by Melvyn Bragg
📖 A Cornish Childhood by A.L. Rowse
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
📖 Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Making of Pride and Prejudice by Sue Birtwistle & Susie Conklin
📖 Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Rode Off to Battle by Ann Kramer
📖 Once Upon a River: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
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'Call it my naive idealism. Call it my foolish wish to live in a world in which I don't have to dispense or receive dehumanizing treatment. But I live in hope that this could one day be the norm, not the exception.'
X
Within the dream you said:
Let us kiss then,
In this room, in this bed,
But when all's done,
We must not meet again.
Hearing this last word,
There was no lambing-night,
No gale-driven bird
Nor frost-encircled root
As cold as my heart.
Recent acquisitions:
📖 George Eliot by Marghanita Laski
📖 A History of the World in 100 Objects: From the Handaxe to the Credit Card by Neil MacGregor
📖 Irish Folk Music and Song by Donal O'Sullivan
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Chronicles by Jean Froissart
📖 English Church Craftsmanship by Fred H. Crossley
📖 The Lais of Marie de France
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'Despite shrill warnings about the nihilism to which secular living supposedly must lead, despite the claims that without God people are doomed to living life with no notion of good and bad - why not just kill for sport? - most of us in this wildly diverse collection of non-religious, nontheistic individuals are managing fine, more or less. ⬇️
pick★★★★★
Jones, the fourth Episcopal Bishop of Utah, was basically forced to resign for not supporting the international violence of the Great War. This is a brief account of his life and convictions.
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pick★★★★★
Powerful because it felt authentic.
Recommended by my daughter, Sarah.
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'The Constitution assured the right to vote, but there is no such assurance of the right to adequate housing, or the right to an adequate income. And yet, in a nation which has a gross national product of 750 billion dollars a year [in 1966], it is morally right to insist that every person has a decent house, an adequate education and enough money to provide basic necessities for one's family.'
Recent acquisitions (gifts from my good friend and fellow bibliophile, Shawn):
📖 World War Z by Max Brooks
📖 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
📖 Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden
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Recent acquisitions (not from England):
📖 The Irish Guyed: A Fearless Peep Behind the Emerald Curtain by Shamus O'Shamus and dekkorated by Dekk
📖 The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales: Little Known Tales as Well as Treasured Classics: With 60 Illustrations
📖 Seeds in the Wind: Early Signs of Genius: From Virginia Woolf to Graham Greene edited by Neville Braybrooke
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Recent acquisitions from England part 10:
📖 Robin Hood: The True History Behind the Legend by Nigel Cawthorn
📖 Robin Hood: Outlaw or Greenwood Myth by Fran & Geoff Doel
📖 Storyworlds of Robin Hood: The Origins of a Medieval Outlaw by Lesley Coote
📖 Robin Hood: Legend and Reality by David Crook
📖 Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked by David Baldwin
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Recent acquisitions from England part 9:
📖 Shakespeare by McBean
📖 Olivier by Philip Ziegler
Both purchased at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Recent acquisitions from England part 8:
📖 A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems by A. E. Housman
📖 The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland
📖 Tales from Wessex by Thomas Hardy
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Recent acquisitions from England part 7:
📖 Lyveden (National Trust)
📖 Hatfield House: Over 400 Years of History
📖 Bodleian Library Souvenir Guide
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Recent acquisitions from England part 6:
📖 Saints, Shrines & Pilgrims (Pitkin Guides)
📖 Britain's Pilgrim Places by Nick Mayhew-Smith and Guy Hayward
📖 Life in a Monastery (Pitkin Guides)
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Recent acquisitions from England part 5:
📖 The Little Book of Corbyn: In His Own Words
📖 The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
📖 This is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright by Emma Smith
📖 Pocket Magna Carta
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Recent acquisitions from England part 4:
📖 Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church by Peter Ross
📖 Cathedrals & Abbeys of England by Stephen Platten
📖 Cathedral Architecture (Pitkin Guides)
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Recent acquisitions from England part 3:
📖 Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock
📖 Historical Atlas of Britain: Prehistoric and Medieval edited by Nigel Saul
📖 Most Wise and Valiant Ladies: Remarkable Lives: Women of the Middle Ages by Andrea Hopkins
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pick★★★★★
'HELLEBORE is a UK-based small press devoted to British folk horror and the occult.' - from their website
I loved this travel guide!
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Recent acquisitions from England part 2:
📖 The English Resistance: The Underground War Against the Normans by Peter Rex
📖 Cnut: England's Viking King 1016-1035 by M. K. Lawson
📖 Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker
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Recent acquisitions from England part 1:
📖 Medieval London: The City, Westminster and Southwark: Showing London in the Late 13th Century with an Introduction and Directory
📖 The Stripping of the Alters: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
📖 From Becket to Langton: English Church Government 1170-1213 by C. R. Cheney
📖 The Black Death (Pitkin Guides) by Brian Williams
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Recent acquisitions:
For Father's Day, Amy gave me two newer books by Peter Ackroyd, one of my favorite authors!
📖 The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern
📖 Colors of London: A History
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Dayna Patterson's cool new book went to the Globe with us tonight for an excellent performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Recent acquisitions:
📖 O Lady, Speak Again: Poems by Dayna Patterson
📖 Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland
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pick★★★★☆
Recommended by Paul Kingsnorth, a favourite author.
I liked it, but it wasn't as good as I hoped. A lot of interesting ideas were raised but they weren't quite tied together to my satisfaction. It felt like a long, wandering magazine article.
While reading, I remembered that I had written a short paper on this same subject for my 9th grade geography class decades ago. I should see if I can find it...
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'The rivalrous nature of [England's] politics - Whig versus Tory, Labour versus Conservative - is only one manifestation of the nation's either/or tendency. Other nations accommodate many voices and conduct their politics through many parties. England, impatient with such nuances, prefers a stark, polar opposition: yes/no, rich/poor, private/public, north/south, in/out.'
pan★★☆☆☆
I understand the ecological message that this book was trying to express but unfortunately the simple text didn't make sense. It was supposed to be 'this leads to that, and that leads to this, and this leads to that, etc.' but some of the connections weren't obvious, which defeated the purpose. The illustrations were the best part.
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