p. 137: 'True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension, confusion, or war; it is the presence of some positive force - justice, good will, and brotherhood.'
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p. 137: 'True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force - tension, confusion, or war; it is the presence of some positive force - justice, good will, and brotherhood.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Karl Marx: His Life and Environment by Isaiah Berlin
📖 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Recent acquisitions (purchased secondhand for my wife, Amy):
📖 Gods In the Global Village: The World's Religions in Sociological Perspective (Second Edition) by Lester R. Kurtz
📖 Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church: Essays by Lavina Fielding Anderson, forward by Jana Riess
pick★★★★☆
This translation was, at times, both easier and more difficult than others I have read.
Recent acquisitions (Christmas gifts from my daughter, Sarah):
📖 Story of Chester Lawrence by Nephi Anderson (signed by the author, my great-grandfather)
📖 The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. Burgess
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (I collect editions of Tess, my favourite novel, and this Christmas gift from my daughter is my 32nd)
📖 Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales: Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial (1898) by T. G. Bonney
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Shetland (Islands) by James R. Nicolson
📖 American Trinity and Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor by David G. Pace (signed by the author)
p. 14
'Then they showed forth the shield, that shone all red,
With the pentangle portrayed in purest gold.
About his broad neck by the baldric he casts it,
That was meet for the man, and matched him well.
...
For it is a figure formed of five points,
And each line is linked and locked with the next
For ever and ever, and hence it is called
In England, as I hear, the endless knot.'
p. 7
'And so I call in this court for a Christmas game,
For 'tis Yule and New Year, and many young bloods about;
If any in this house such hardihood claims,
Be so bold in his blood, his brain so wild,
As stoutly to strike one stroke for another,
I shall give him as my gift this gisarme noble,
This ax, that is heavy enough, to handle as he likes,
And I shall bide the first blow, as bare as I sit.
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Recent acquisitions from The Last Bookstore:
📖 The Diplomas of King Æthlred 'the Unready' 978-1016: A Study in their Use as Historical Evidence by Simon Keynes (signed by the author)
📖 1066: The Year of Three Battles by Frank McLynn
Started Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Marie Borroff
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín
📖 Cry God for Larry: An Intimate Memoir of Sir Laurence Olivier by Virginia Fairweather
Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Illustrated History of the Popes: An Authoritative Guide to the Lives and Works of the Popes of the Catholic Church, with 450 Images by Charles Phillips
📖 Latin-English Booklet Missal for Praying the Traditional Mass
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image by John Behr
📖 Everyone's Book About The English Church by F.C. Happold
Both not in the best condition but they're on topics of supreme interest to me and were basically free so I had to grab them.
Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
📖 Saint Joseph Prayer Book
Raised Mormon, I'm now a religious Humanist with an affinity for pagan nature worship and Catholic æsthetics who regularly attends progressive high church Episcopal mass with my Christian wife, Amy. Yes, it's complicated. The Mary book is in Latin & English 🤍
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
📖 Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
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p. 25: 'By the eleventh century... the church congregation formed a similar grouping to that of its members' everyday lives. One often began, continued, and ended one's spiritual life in the local church. One went there with one's neighbors. Most churches would grow in size in later times, but the essential parish church community had now been created.'
Started. Looking forward very much to learning what church was like for my ancestors. Recommended to me by Tudor historian Norman Jones.
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pick★★★★☆
First read in 2010. My wife Amy and I started the audiobook of this American nature classic last June while driving home from Moab, Utah, a place that is very special to us. Acknowledging Abbey's ableism, racism, sexism, and hypocrisy, one can't deny that he's a compelling writer. I wish all readers of this book could also read Robert Macfarlane's introduction. ⬇️
Recent acquisitions (50% off all hardbacks at my local right now!):
📖 Viking: Hammer of the North by Magnus Magnusson
📖 The Celts: Life, Myth and Art by Juliette Wood
📖 Timpson's England: A Look Beyond the Obvious by John Timpson
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Going to Church in Medieval England by Nicholas Orme
📖 The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation by Ian Mortimer
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
📖 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever edited and with introductions by Christopher Hitchens
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pick★★★★★
Excellent programme from David Gilmour's current tour. My wife and I were able to attend the Pink Floyd guitarist's Hollywood Bowl gig last week.
The programme isn't listed in Litsy, so I have tagged Gilmour's son's 2020 memoir, which I enjoyed.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People by Charlie Campbell
📖 Dramas of Testimony: The Dance of Death I & II / Advent / Easter / There are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg
📖 English Hours by Henry James
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by Marie Borroff
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My wife and I visited yesterday on my cousin's recommendation. It was great!
Acquisitions to follow in another post or two.
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Recent acquisitions (gifts from my friend Shawn):
📖 Seven Victorian Poets by David Wright
📖 O'Brien Pocket History of Ireland by Breandán Ó hEithir
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Recent acquisitions (gifts from my friend Shawn):
📖 The Elizabethan World edited by Susan Doran and Norman Jones (my former professor)
📖 American Religious Humanism (Revised Edition) by Mason Olds
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Recent acquisitions (top to bottom):
📖 Magna Carta by Jones
📖 The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485 (The Oxford History of England) by Jacob
📖 The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399 (The Oxford History of England) by McKisack
📖 Domesday Book to Magna Carta 1087- 1215 (The Oxford History of England) by Poole
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages by Hardin Craig
📖 Handbook of Middle English by Fernand Mossé
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pick★★★★★
A simple story about friendship, place, and the excitement of young love in the autumn before adulthood.
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Recent birthday acquisitions:
📖 The Mystery of King Arthur by Elizabeth Jenkins
📖 The Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology, Selected and Introduced by Richard Barber
📖 Robin Hood and the White Cat
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Recent birthday acquisitions:
📖 Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life by Ralph Pite
📖 The Poetical Works of John Keats
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My wife and I have been slowly reading this with our two youngest kids for a while now.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Capitalism's Conscience: 200 Years of the Guardian edited by Des Freedman
📖 The Leveller Revolution by John Rees
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Recent acquisitions from San Antonio:
📖 Welcome to the Book of Common Prayer by Vicki K. Black
📖 Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul by John Philip Newell
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse On a Scottish Isle by Mary J. MacLeod
📖 Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey (I already had a copy of this nature classic set in my home state but I just had to get this British edition with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane, one of my favourite writers.)
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p. 78: '[Hardy] could no longer believe, but he cherished the memory of belief, and especially the centrality and beauty of Christian ritual in country life, and what it had meant to earlier generations and still meant to some.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 A Documentary History of England Vol. 1 (1066-1540) by J. J. Bagley and P. B. Rowley
📖 A Documentary History of England Vol. 2 (1559-1931) by E. N. Williams
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p. 63: '[Hardy] went several times to hear Dickens read... and to hear John Stuart Mill speak on the hustings, and to the House of Commons to listen to Lord Palmerston. When Palmerston died, he got tickets for the funeral in Westminster Abbey, very conscious of the fact that the great man had stood in the House with Pitt, Fox, Sheridan and Burke. It was the personal link always that stirred Hardy's interest in history.'
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation (Revised and Enlarged) edited by Vincent F. Hopper
📖 Villette by Charlotte Brontë
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pickBlankets was banned in all Utah K-12 schools in August, 2024. I feel so strongly about intellectual freedom that I'm going to share some very personal insights. Warning: tough topics ahead.
'Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.'
- James Baldwin, As Much Truth As One Can Bear
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p. xxii-xxiii: 'Hardy was a writer who made many of his best efforts out of incidents and stories he had collected and put aside, sights stored up, feelings he had kept to himself, anger he had not shown to the world. [As a poet] he is like an archeologist uncovering objects that have not been seen for many decades, bringing them into the light, examining them, some small pieces, some curious bones and broken bits, and some shining treasures.' ⬇️
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