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bibliothecarivs

Joined August 2020

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ⁱhusband ⁱⁱfather ⁱⁱⁱfriend ⁱⱽally ⱽanglophile ⱽⁱmediævalist ⱽⁱⁱlibrarian ⱽⁱⁱⁱhumanist ⁱˣgreen ˣsocialist, &c. · Shoshone-land / Utah, USA
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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: ★★★★★

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George Orwell: A Life | BERNARD. CRICK
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Random book from our home library:

📖 George Orwell: The First Complete Biography by Bernard Crick

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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics | Stephen Greenblatt
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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.'

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Recent home library acquisition:

📖 From Old English to Standard English (second edition): A Course Book in Language Variation Across Time by Dennis Freeborn

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One Hundred Middle English Lyrics | Robert David Stevick
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Random book from our home library:

📖 One Hundred Middle English Lyrics edited with an introduction by Robert D. Stevick

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Underland: A Deep Time Journey | Robert Macfarlane
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★★★★★

I'm excited that Macfarlane is touring his next book across the US and Canada soon!

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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape by James Rebanks

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Recent acquisition:

📖 Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell

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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: ★★★☆☆

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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Christian Mind by Harry Blamires

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The Book of English Magic | Richard Heygate, Philip Carr-Gomm
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Recent acquisition:

📖 The Book of English Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm & Richard Heygate

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Random book from our home library:

📖 London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Peter Ackroyd

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Underland: A Deep Time Journey | Robert Macfarlane
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📖 Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane

Had a long drive today - 25% in and loving it.

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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Word Hord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen

Bookwomble I want to read this as I loved her follow up book, The Deorhord. 2w
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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.

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Northumbria in the Days of Bede | Peter Hunter Blair
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Northumbria in the Days of Bede by Peter Hunter Blair

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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Prelude: The Four Texts: 1798, 1799, 1805, 1850 by William Wordsworth

Graywacke I‘ll be reading a little Wordsworth this week - for the 1st time. Just for a few minutes each day. 3w
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Recent acquisition:

📖 Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake

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Random book from our home library:

📖 Six Middle English Romances edited by Maldwyn Mills

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Thomas Hardy | Claire Tomalin
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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!

Ruthiella Wow! That‘s a long time to wait, but at least there‘s a happy ending! 3w
Texreader Oh that‘s great news!! I went to Stonehenge last year. I would have been so sad too! 3w
bibliothecarivs @Texreader, what did you think of the 'henge? As much as I love England and its history, I was underwhelmed. It's so iconic that perhaps my expectations were too high. 3w
Bookwomble @bibliothecarivs I think that in an age of skyscrapers, Stonehenge makes less of an impression on the modern mind in terms of its bulk, though our greater understanding of its deep history can still review awe. Did you get to visit Avebury and Silbury Hill? 2w
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★★★★☆

Nice review of Francis's first couple years of public events.

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Random book from our home library:

📖 Life in the Castle in Medieval England by John Burke

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Green Arrow: A Celebration of 75 Years | Dennis O'Neil, Jack Kirby, Mike Grell, Mort Weisinger
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Recent acquisition:

📖 Green Arrow: A Celebration of 75 Years

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Random book from our home library:

📖 Wild Hares & Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village by Stephen Moss

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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

Ruthiella Congratulations to your daughter! 🥳🥳🥳 (edited) 4w
Leftcoastzen Congratulations to the whole family! Wonderful! 4w
Bookwomble Congratulations to your daughter. Proud parents! 🥹❤️ 2w
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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Best of Coldplay (Easy Piano) Second Edition

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Recent acquisition:

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

Graywacke I loved it 🙂 4w
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Started

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

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Random book from our home library:

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

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Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, 3rd edition | Henry M. Robert III, Daniel H Honemann, Thomas J Balch, Daniel E. Seabold, Shmuel Gerber
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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

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The Vikings | Howard La Fay
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Recent acquisition:

📖 The Vikings (National Geographic) by Howard La Fay

Ladygodiva7 Love that cover!! 😍 1mo
bibliothecarivs @Ladygodiva7, I don't like it but it's interesting that you and my son-in-law made a point to let me know that you do. Happy to share :) 1mo
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The Last English King | Julian Rathbone
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Random fiction book from our home library:

📖 The Last English King by Julian Rathbone

Bookwomble Ok, I read that book title as suggesting that Julian Rathbone was the last English king, and for a nanosecond I was going to take issue! 😆 1mo
bibliothecarivs @Bookwomble, didn't you know? 😄 1mo
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Panoramas of English Gardens by David Wheeler and Nick Meers

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Recent acquisition:

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

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On Care for Our Common Home: Laudato Si | Jorge (Pope Francis) Bergoglio
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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.'

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The Quest for Merlin | Nikolai Tolstoy
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Random book from our home library:

📖 The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy

Bookwomble I have this one, too 😊 I read it in the '80s during my peak Arthurian phase, so it's a bit hazy now, but I remember enjoying it. Have you read the tagged? It's Tolstoy's fantasy retelling of the Merlin story based on Welsh traditions, and I really enjoyed this one. It was intended as the first in a trilogy, which was sadly sidelined when he lost a libel suit. 1mo
bibliothecarivs @Bookwomble, I have not read that one. Your description made me think of The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, which I did read about 30 years ago for school and enjoyed. (edited) 1mo
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The Mormon Book of Lists | Jay A. Parry, Larry E. Morris
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Random book from our home library:

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

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On Care for Our Common Home: Laudato Si | Jorge (Pope Francis) Bergoglio
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Started

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

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Robin Hood | Walt Disney, Walt Disney Company
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Recent acquisition:

📖 Robin Hood by the Walt Disney Company

I collect RH books and this is my 72nd.

Ruthiella I loved this movie as a kid. 😍 1mo
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The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 | Maud Gonne, Anna MacBride White
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Random book from our home library:

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

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Random book from our home library:

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

2010 review: ★★★★★

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

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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics | Stephen Greenblatt
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📖 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?'

Lcsmcat Sounds fascinating. Stacked. 1mo
breadnroses @Lcsmcat seconded! 4w
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir