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bibliothecarivs

Joined August 2020

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¹husband ²father ³friend ⁴ally ⁵anglophile ⁶𝔪𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔞𝔢𝔳𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 ⁷librarian ⁸humanist ⁹green ¹⁰socialist, &c. · Shoshone-land / Utah, USA
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A Glastonbury Romance | John Cowper Powys
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

#glastonbury #powys #novel

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#oldenglish #poetry

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A New History of Early English Drama | John D. Cox, David Scott Kastan
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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Random book from our personal library. My apologies for displaying a dead person ('Tollund Man'), especially one who probably died violently, with no warning.

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How to Read Shakespeare | Nicholas Royle
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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Godric: A Novel | Frederick Buechner
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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LGBT Salt Lake | J. Seth Anderson
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★★★★☆

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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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Random book from our personal library.

One of ten novels written by my great-grandfather more than a century ago.

Leftcoastzen Wow ! That‘s so cool ! Love the very old covers as well. 1w
Leftcoastzen I looked him up on Wikipedia, a very accomplished guy! 1w
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Lord Hamlet's Castle | Hunter Steele
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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The Annotated Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame, Annie Gauger
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Random book from our personal library.

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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

Every once in a while, you find something good at the dollar store.

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English Cottages | Tony Evans, Candida Lycett Green, T Evans
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The Icelandic Saga | Peter Hallberg
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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LGBT Salt Lake | J. Seth Anderson
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Started

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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology | Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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Random book from our home library.

My 2017 rating: ★★★★★

Bookwomble Although it's not my typical genre, I enjoyed this one, and cried at the end 😭 3w
bibliothecarivs @Bookwomble, I just updated the caption with my rating from 8 years ago. Although it's also not my typical genre, after having it recommended to me by two librarian colleagues whom I respect, I decided to give it a try and was not disappointed! 2w
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The Cathedrals of Britain | David Lawrence Edwards
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.

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Started. Last read in 2011.

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Gunnar's Daughter | Sigrid Undset
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Recent home library acquisition

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Random book from our home library.

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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.

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Castles and Abbeys of Wales | D. J. Cathcart King, Great Britain. Department of the Environment
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Castles and Abbeys of Wales by D. J. Cathcart King

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Recent home library acquisition:

📖 On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US by James LaRue (signed by the author)

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Started this about 10 days ago for work. Definitely not my usual.

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Random book from our home library:

📖 An Encyclopedia of World History edited by William Langer

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Vesper Flights | HELEN. MACDONALD
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Recent home library acquisition:

📖 Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

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Thomas Hardy | Claire Tomalin
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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.'

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Random book from our home library:

📖 Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

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Recent home library acquisition:

📖 Manifesto: The Battle for Green Britain (Revised and Updated) by Dale Vince

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Random book from our home library:

📖 English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages by Hardin Craig

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Recent home library acquisition:

📖 The Origin and Early History of Christianity in Britain by Andrew Gray

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1966 and All That | Craig Brown
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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

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Thomas Hardy | Claire Tomalin
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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)

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The Little Book of Shakespeare | Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
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Recent home library acquisition:

📖 The Little Book of Shakespeare

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Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

This edition was my late grandfather's when he was a boy.

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Recent home library acquisition:

📖 The Romance of Tristan by Béroul

LibraryThing says I have 65 books related to King Arthur and 149 Penguin Classics.

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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics | Stephen Greenblatt
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Mehso-so

★★★☆☆

Greenblatt knows Shakespeare and Shakespeare knew the human condition; both are amply demonstrated here. But somehow, I was still left wanting. Perhaps it was the lack of clear connections between textual observations or between what the author had read in Shakespeare and witnessed in the real world, especially during the first Trump administration. It's not weak, but it could have been stronger.

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Images of Faith: Art of the Latter-Day Saints | Richard G. Oman, Robert O. Davis, Museum of Church History and Art (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Images of Faith: Art of the Latter-day Saints by Richard G. Oman & Robert O. Davis

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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever selected and with introductions by Christopher Hitchens

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Robin Hood | George Cockburn Harvey
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Recent home library acquisition:

📖 Robin Hood (The Children's Classics) by anonymous, introduced by George Cockburn Harvey, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie

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Random book from our home library:

📖 Robert Frost: Selected Poems (Gramercy Great Poets)

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Folklore of Glamorgan | Alan Roderick
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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Folklore of Glamorgan by Alan Roderick

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Random book from our home library:

📖 Re-Viewing The Passion: Mel Gibson's Movie and its Critics edited by S. Brent Plate

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The Anglo-Saxon State | James Campbell
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Recent home library acquisition:

📖 The Anglo-Saxon State by James Campbell

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Random book from our home library:

📖 Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture by Seamus Heaney

2013 review: ★★★★★