Recent acquisition for our personal library (not in the Litsy database yet, despite me adding it weeks ago):
📖 The Celtic Vision: Prayers and Blessings From the Outer Hebrides: Selections From the Carmina Gadelica edited by Esther De Waal
#celtic #medieval #christianity
I only remembered three things about THE LAST LIGHT OF THE SUN:
1. There were vikings.
2. They blood eagled people.
3. I didn‘t enjoy it as much as Kay‘s other books.
Now I‘m rereading it for the first time, eighteen years on, and I‘m loving it. Kay hits me hardest when he‘s PERSONAL, above mythic or political, and this book is very much that. I can‘t wait to plunge onwards.
Also of note: it‘s Allie‘s 8th birthday! She loves it under her tree.
#CharacterCharm #fairy-elf-pixie @Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Part memoir and nature writing this also includes some Celtic mythology and fairy folklore. It should come with a warning “might make you run away to Ireland, Scotland or Wales.”
pickFiona returns to live with her grandparents on the beloved Western Isles of her birth. When she visits her family‘s former home on the island of Ron Mor, she‘s sure she sees a glimpse of her baby brother, who disappeared when her family left the island four years before. Such a sweet, lovely story of family and return, with hints of myth and magic—enhanced by Fry‘s drawings throughout. So glad I picked this as my 1957 book for #192025.
“The divine has such passionate creativity and instinct for the fully inhabited life. If you allow yourself to be the person that you are, then everything will come into rhythm. If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessing in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love, rather we are living the life that is expected of us.”
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.
#celtic #christian #spirituality
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Finished 10 books-but many I had started the previous week(s). #poetryandscience #mariapopova #GeorgeMollyPalmerJonesMystery #AlaskaSanders #RebusNovels #SisterFidelmaMystery #Preorderbookclubchallenge #naturalitsy #CommissarioGuidoBrunettiMystery
Top Row: starting these: #sundaybuddyread #CommissarioGuidoBrunettiMystery #SisterFidelmaMystery #camplitsy25
pickBr. Eadulf & Fidelma of Cashel are enroute to meet up with a childhood friend of Eadulf‘s,Br.Botulf,who is at Aldred‘s Abbey.When they arrive,they find Br.Botulf has been murdered.Ghosts lurk in the Abbey, & the evil murderer of men,the Abbott Ciln,is terrified of them.He is slowly going insane by the hauntings.
Em is not impressed with this tale.I found Eadulf to be rather unlikable-he was grouchy, irritable,arrogant.
#serieslove2025 #catsoflitsy
#coffeeandbooks #serieslove2025
Home today due to allergies- lucky me, I am a reader!
