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One Hundred Middle English Lyrics | Robert David Stevick
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Random book from our home library:

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

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MommyWantsToReadHerBook
The Anchoress | Robyn Cadwallader
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The library was closed! 😭 And it's generally going to be closed on Saturdays because of a labour dispute. I self-soothed by buying from the sales table at the already slightly cheaper, less fancy bookstore. I was really looking forward to stocking up for my trip to Cape Town next weekend.

Oh and I Capture the Castle was a farmer's market buy earlier 🙂

Susanita Boo for library closures. 1mo
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quietlycuriouskate
Dante: A Life | Alessandro Barbero
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(Photo is my journal, with one of the fabulous Dante stickers my daughter made for me. ❤️)
I enjoyed this meticulous book's painstaking sifting of all the extant sources for the facts of Dante's life. Look elsewhere for discussion of his works: this is strictly biographically-focused. Personally, I appreciated being given some context for the creation of his extraordinary Divine Comedy. (Turns out he didn't beam down from outer space/Paradiso! 😄)

TheBookHippie ♥️ 2mo
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quietlycuriouskate
Dante: A Life | Alessandro Barbero
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Oh hello, Dante; is that you again?
Apparently this is how Venus retrograde is manifesting in my life, courtesy of BorrowBox. 😄

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AvidReader25
The Travels | Marco Polo
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Absolutely the most beautiful ornament for a book lover! This one‘s made with maps, but there are others made with book pages. Just gorgeous and the perfect way to memorialize my big trip to Greece this summer. You can find the Etsy shop at BookologyCo if you are looking for a gift for a book or travel lover. 😊

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kwmg40
The Magnificent Century | Thomas B. Costain
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#TodayILearned what a terrible leader Henry III was. That's probably why there aren't many films or books devoted to him. Still, I'm really enjoying Costain's Plantagenet series. It's very readable, even if some of the feelings and thoughts the author attributes to these real-life characters might have involved some guesswork.

#NFNovember @Bookwormjillk
#BookSpinBingo #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

kwmg40 This book was an appropriate choice for the “Cursola: Read the oldest book on your TBR“ prompt for #gottacatchemall, as it had sat on my shelves for about 40 years! @PuddleJumper 6mo
Bookwormjillk 40 years! Wow!! 6mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo
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LitStephanie
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I highly recommend this for anyone interested in British medieval history. Edward I did terrible things: expelled all Jews from England, used trickery and atrocities to conquer Scotland, and subjugated the Welsh and forced them to fight in his wars, to name a few. But there is no question he was an exceptionally strong, effective king and a brilliant strategist. Morris lays out a very good case that his reign forged Britain as we know it. 👇

LitStephanie The audio reader is great, and pronounces all the French and Welsh names better than I ever could. This history is told from the perspective of an English historian telling the story of Edward I, so there isn't much of a discussion of how his policies harmed people. This same story would probably sound different if told by a Welsh or Scottish historian. Very well written, and I was never bored in 18 hours of listening. 8mo
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Abe
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Great read about castle life told in rhyme!

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Robin Hood | Neil Philip
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Recent acquisitions:

📖 Robin Hood (Eyewitness Classics) by Philip, illustrated by Harris (my 70th RH book)
📖 Fifteenth-Century England 1399-1509: Studies in Politics and Society by Chrimes, Ross, and Griffiths
📖 The Gawain-Poet (Medieval and Renaissance Authors) by Wilson
📖 The Life and Times of Richard III by Cheetham

#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead