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bibliothecarivs

Joined August 2020

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¹husband of Amy ²father ³friend ⁴ally ⁵anglophile ⁶mediævalist ⁷librarian ⁸humanist ⁹green ¹⁰socialist, &c. · bibliothecarivs.blogspot.com · UT, US
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Pickpick

★★★★★

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Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens
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Haven't read this but loved the BBC TV adaption starring Claire Foy.

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Halfway

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A History of the English Church and People | Saint Bede (the Venerable)
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Recent acquisition for our personal library 📜

I collect editions of Bede's history and this is #13.

Bookwomble I only have one edition of this book, but it is that one! ☝️😁 5d
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p. 47: 'Elizabeth, this is the most beautiful vest in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE!'

This panel made me laugh out loud at the coffee shop this morning haha 🦺😍

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The Ghosts of Belfast | Stuart Neville
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🇮🇪💀🇬🇧

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Started this recent acquisition for our personal library

🚫🗣💀

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Lives of the Saints | J. F. Webb
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😇

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Essentials of Abnormal Psychology | David H. Barlow, David Barlow, Vincent Mark Durand
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One of Amy's college textbooks (she's the head counsellor at our local high school).

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Tamara Drewe | Posy Simmonds
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2020 rating: ★★★★★

I loved this modern Hardy adaptation first published as a serial in The Guardian 2005-07.

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📖 Michael Collins: Some Original Documents in His Own Hand introduced by Brian P. Murphy

2012 rating: ★★★★★

bibliothecarivs After posting this morning, I discovered that today is Collins' 135th birthday. 2w
bibliothecarivs @Cuilin, as you're from Cork, I'm curious about your experience with Michael Collins. Did you learn about him while growing up? Were you still in Ireland when Neil Jordan's 1996 movie starring Liam Neeson was released? 2w
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Memoir by the co-founder of the famous Salt Lake City bookshop.

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Is a River Alive? | Robert Macfarlane
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Recent acquisition for our personal library (birthday present from my wife, Amy).

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The Cooking of Scandinavia: Recipes | Dale M. Brown (Author and editor at Time-Life Books)
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The Art of Sleepy Hollow | Andrew Kevin Walker
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My favorites 2020-2024 in no particular order:

• Lark Rise to Candleford by Thompson
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Stone
• Here by McGuire
• The Moon Spun Round by Yeats, edited by Doody, illustrated by Macdonald
• Once and Future by Gillen, illustrated by Mora, coloured by Bonvillain
• Images by Bergman
• Cathedral by Macaulay
• The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain edited by Pérez Cuervo
• Unquiet by Ullmann
• Matrix by Groff

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William Wallace | Andrew Fisher
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Happy Friday (best day of the week)! Here's another recent acquistion for our personal library. Our son gave me this for my birthday.

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Landmarks of Britain | Amy Williams
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On Care for Our Common Home: Laudato Si | Jorge (Pope Francis) Bergoglio
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Halfway done.

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A few years ago I aquired this Scots-language biography of the medieval freedom fighter written for teens. Our own teens weren't as excited as I was.

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I received this from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Still need to read it.

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I found this one at Pioneer Book, a cool indie in Provo, Utah, a couple years ago.

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While I don't much care for the British monarchy these days, Diana's death occured around the time I was discovering my anglophilia as a teenager and it had a big effect on me. It's strange to think back on that time now.

Suet624 It had a big effect on me too. Still does. 1mo
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Britain's Heritage | John Julius Norwich
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This is one of the worst Tess covers because it portrays Tess as a seductress, which is just not accurate, and because of the sentence, '...a woman's unwilling fall from virtue'. That's called rape, Mr. Book Designer in 1955 and you obviously haven't read Hardy's subtitle: 'A Pure Woman.'

TheBookHippie Oh dear 😵‍💫 1mo
Ruthiella Covers for Lolita also generally make me very angry. 1mo
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Bergman is my favorite film director. I discovered his work in 2009 when I finally borrowed The Seventh Seal from the library where I work. My reaction to that first exposure: 'WHAT IS THIS?' I've now seen about 40 of his films, collected more than 10 related books, and The Seventh Seal is one of my top 10 favorite films.

Bookwomble I love The Seventh Seal, though I don't have your dedication to Bergman's other films - that's impressive! 😀 One of my favourite singers, Scott Walker, did a fantastic tribute to Bergman's film on the opening track of his album, Scott 4. If you have time to listen, here's a link: https://youtu.be/jMUk1R_fKEA?si=HIXDWybTz7F_FrK7 If you enjoy it, I'd recommend the whole album 😊 1mo
bibliothecarivs @Bookwomble, thanks for the tip! 1mo
bibliothecarivs @Bookwomble, before this, the only Bergman-related music that I knew of was Sparks's album The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman: https://youtu.be/xT46rlqCBW8. 1mo
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

I collect all things Robin Hood and this is book #75:

https://www.librarycat.org/lib/bibliothecarivs/search/text/robin+hood

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Random book from our personal library.

This is one of those books I had to add to our collection in solidarity with fellow workers, but also because it was about the English, was published by Penguin Classics, and, if I'm honest, because it was inexpensive.

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Another book I got mostly for Amy. I really liked TKAM when I read it for the first time a few years ago, but she brought that book into my orbit and I probably wouldn't have ever read it without her advocacy because it's just so far outside my normal reading.

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Mere Christianity | C S Lewis
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Amy is currently working her way through the Anne books so I grabbed this for her when I saw it at at charity shop.

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Hans Christian Andersen as an Artist | Kjeld Heltoft, David Hohnen
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#medieval #england

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#london

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Pickpick

★★★★☆

#usu

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Started (my 3rd reading)

Ruthiella Wow. I don‘t know if I could read this one again. I found it so very sad. 1mo
bibliothecarivs @Ruthiella, it is sad but it's also beautifully written and Tess is such an inspiration. It's my favourite novel and I'm reading it with my wife and adult daughters for the first time. 1mo
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Amy and I received this as members of the Elizabethan England tour group led by the author in 2023.

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#usu