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(Wow... this paperback book cost only $.60 in 1959!)
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How about a back-story instead of a review? I first read Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum in 2005 when I took a directed readings course from Dr. Norman L. Jones at Utah State University. The format was perfect - he asked me what I wanted to learn about and I said the Anglo-Saxons. He then assigned me a pile of books to read and discuss with him. Since Norm was the revered department head, I knew this was a privilege. 1/2
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2017 rating: ★★★★★
My third year starting Sir Gawain during Christmastide, fifth reading overall, and fourth translation. As you can see behind the book, there's no snow on the ground today (Dec 29) here in northern Utah, USA, a place that someone once told me was 'the great white north'.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesta_Danorum
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Recent acquisition for our personal library. I picked this up at a charity shop for Amy, who studied sociology for her undergraduate degree.
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2023 rating: ★★★★★
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📖 Beda: A Journey Through the Seven Kingdoms in the Age of Bede by Henrietta Leyser
Purchased at Durham Cathedral in Oct, 2016
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My third time reading Tess and the first time listening to this CD audiobook, which I purchased at Prospero's Books in Kansas City, Missouri last year. Hardy is a wonderfully descriptive writer. Vance is a great narrator but sometime in the future I want to listen to a version with a female voice for Tess.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
I love these Pitkin Pictorials published in the 1960s.
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📖 God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman by Peter Cowie
2024 review: ★★★★☆
Timely since I just finished the five-hour television version of Bergman's Fanny och Alexander last night, which I also give four stars.
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Read a different edition in 2005 and later rated it ★★★★☆
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📖 Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
Souvenir gift from our daughter, who recently visited Athens and Istanbul with her boyfriend.
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2014 rating: ★★★★★
First edition, inscribed to me and signed by the author after a memorable dinner and before a public talk at Utah State University's Merrill-Cazier Library in 2018.
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Souvenir gift from one of our adult daughters, who recently visited Athens and Istanbul with her boyfriend, for our teen daughter, who loves Greek mythology.
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2022 review: ★★★★★
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
We already had this title, but I replaced it with this fun Puffin Classics edition.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seafarer_(poem)
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Reading for the first time in memory of the Czech-English playwright, who died Saturday.
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2020 rating: ★★★★★
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our personal library.
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