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

My parents are college dropouts. I'm a high school dropout (who later earned a master's degree thanks to my privilege, the inspiration and support of my wife, federal Pell grants, and a new start at our local community college).

All that is context to joyfully share that our oldest child graduated this week from our Alma Mater, Utah State University, with bachelor's degrees in early childhood education and elementary education! #EducationForAll

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Best of Coldplay (Easy Piano) Second Edition

Recent acquisition:

📖 The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor

Started

📖: Pope Francis: A Photographic Portrait of the People's Pope by Michael Collins, featuring photography by Rodolfo Felici

Random book from our home library:

📖 Henry V (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare, edited by Claire McEachern

Random book from our personal library:

📖 Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief: The Rules You Need in a Meeting Made Simple and Easy (Fully Updated 3rd Edition) by Robert, Honemann, Balch, Seabold, and Gerber

Recent acquisition:

📖 The Vikings (National Geographic) by Howard La Fay

Random fiction book from our home library:

📖 The Last English King by Julian Rathbone

Random book from our home library:

📖 Panoramas of English Gardens by David Wheeler and Nick Meers

Recent acquisition:

📖 Wales: The First Place by Jan Morris & Paul Wakefield

p. 5: '[Francis of Assisi] shows us just how inseparable the bond is between concern for nature, justice for the poor, commitment to society, and interior peace.'

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Mormon Book of Lists by Jay A. Parry & Larry E. Morris

Started

📖 Laudato Si' : On Care For Our Common Home by Pope Francis

Recent acquisition:

📖 Robin Hood by the Walt Disney Company

I collect RH books and this is my 72nd.

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Gonne-Yeats Letters 1893-1938 edited with introductions by Anna MacBride White and A. Norman Jeffares

Random book from our home library:

📖 The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution by Frank O'Connor

2010 review: ★★★★★

Last Friday, I watched Christopher Nolan's The Prestige for the first time in more than 15 years. ★★★★☆ #FridayFilms

Started

📖 Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt

'Why would anyone, [Shakespeare] asked himself, be drawn to a leader manifestly unsuited to govern, someone dangerously impulsive or viciously conniving or indifferent to the truth?'

Random book from our home library:

📖 Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir