Random book from our personal library.
Recent acquisition from St Mark's Cathedral for our personal library.
A hardback copy of one of my favourite books, which these days is usually found only in paperback.
Recent acquisition from St Mark's Cathedral for our personal library.
A hardback copy of one of my favourite books, which these days is usually found only in paperback.
A few weeks ago, we were in Salt Lake City and visited the Episcopal Cathedral of St Mark to see if they had a bookstore. To our surprise, the Bishop of Utah herself invited us in. She said there was no bookstore but that they had a very outdated library and we could take what we wished from it! This stack is my haul, for which I made a donation. Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing the books that now have a treasured place in our home library.
Random book from our personal library.
2020 review: ★★★★★
First found McCabe as the author of a short story in the liner notes for one of my favourite albums, Gavin Friday's Shag Tobacco. Found The Butcher Boy through the 1998 film, directed by Neil Jordan, whose 1995 film, Michael Collins, is one of my favourites. Finally read this decades later. I love modern Irish art.
'How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as a animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground. He stood a long long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames.' p. 146
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
#glastonbury #powys #novel
Random book from our personal library.
#oldenglish #poetry
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our personal library. My apologies for displaying a dead person ('Tollund Man'), especially one who probably died violently, with no warning.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our personal library.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our personal library.
One of ten novels written by my great-grandfather more than a century ago.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Every once in a while, you find something good at the dollar store.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our home library.
My 2017 rating: ★★★★★
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
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
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