Recent acquisitions:
📖 Harvest by Jim Crace
📖 Eight Modern Writers (Oxford History of English Literature) by J.I.M. Stewart
📖 Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Harvest by Jim Crace
📖 Eight Modern Writers (Oxford History of English Literature) by J.I.M. Stewart
📖 Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Lindisfarne Gospels by Janet Backhouse
📖 7 ½ Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick (on my wish list for a few years)
📖 Another Brick in the Wall: The Stories Behind Every Pink Floyd Song by Cliff Jones (read this 25 years ago!)
📖 Atheism (20th Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism) by Étienne Borne
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Badger Knight by Kathryn Erskine
📖 Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Monarch Notes)
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Recent Penguin Monarchs acquisitions (only $2 each!):
📖 Stephen by Watkins
📖 Henry II by Barber
📖 Richard I by Ambridge
📖 Henry III by Church
📖 Henry VI by Ross
📖 Edward IV by Pollard
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pick★★★★☆
Ingenious. So completely outside my normal reading. Recommended by my friend, Shawn.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Essential Erasmus: Selected and Translated with Introduction and Commentary by John P. Dolan (gift from my good friend Shawn)
📖 Ecohumanism (Volume 15 of Humanism Today) edited by Robert B. Tapp
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
📖 The Conquerers by Thomas B. Costain
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Recent fiction acquisitions:
📖 The Sword with the Golden Hilt by Margery Evernden
📖 The Lie of the Land by Amanda Craig
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The English Mediaeval Parish Church by G. H. Cook
📖 My Latin Mass Prayer Book by Bart Tesoriero
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The new library building where I work opened to the public on Monday morning (this photo taken 36 hours earlier). Casually talked about for 25 years, seriously talked about for 15 years, actively created for the last 4 years. I'm so happy and so tired. #LitsyLibrarians
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Caxton: The Description of Britain: A Modern Rendering by Marie Collins
📖 Imeall am Domhain: Walking at the Edge of the World by T.P. O'Conchúir and Aimee Ericson
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints and Monks by Michael Patrick O'Brien
📖 The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha (New Revised Standard Version)
📖 Twenty One Saints by Aloysius Croft
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
📖 Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks (this is a rare case of buying the book after having read it. ★★★★★)
📖 The English Nation: The Great Myth by Edwin Jones
📖 Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
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so-so★★★☆☆
I listened to the audiobook. I didn't engage as deeply with its ideas as I would have liked. I hope to re-read it at some point.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Getting Started with Latin: Beginning Latin for Homeschoolers and Self-Taught Students of Any Age by William E. Linney
📖 Brian Boru: Emperor of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 My History: A Memory of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser
📖 Essex Churches and Chapels: A Select Guide by Members of the Friends of Essex Churches
📖 How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
📖 The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner, translated by Andrew Porter
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I'm honoured to be the recipient of the 2024 Cache Valley Library Association Library Hero Award, presented each January to someone who has given "notable service to libraries in Cache Valley."
I love this organisation and have so much respect for its members and the good work they do in our area. Long may it continue.
https://cachelibraries.blogspot.com/p/library-heroes.html
Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Owl Service by Alan Gardner (recommended by Robert Macfarlane & @Bookwomble)
📖 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World by N.T. Wright
📖 Medieval Lives: Eight Charismatic Men and Women of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor
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'We are simply seeking to bring into full realization the American dream--a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men no longer argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character... ⬇️
'The method of nonviolent resistance is effective in that it has a way of disarming the opponent, it exposes his moral defenses, it weakens his morale and at the same time it works on his conscience. ⬇️
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Dracula by Bram Stoker (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), edited by John Paul Riquelme
📖 The Forestwife by Theresa Tomlinson
📖 The Anglo-Saxon Age (A Very Short Introduction) by John Blair
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
📖 The Celts: Conquerors of Ancient Europe
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Country: A Novel by Michael Hughes
📖 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (I collect editions of Tess and this is my 30th)
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. Volume I. Part 2. by Edward, Earl of Clarendon (published in Oxford in 1731)
📖 England, England by Diana Anderson (a bespoke board book written in the style of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by my 22-year-old daughter, a primary school teaching-in-training, which references our very special 2016 trip)
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Cultural Atlas of the Viking World by Colleen Batey, Helen Clarke, R. I. Page, Neil S. Price, edited by James Graham-Campbell
📖 The Folk Arts of Norway (second enlarged edition with 219 illustrations including 20 in full color) by Janice S. Stewart
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XXIX
Pour away that youth
That overflows the heart
Into hair and mouth;
Take the grave's part,
Tell the bone's truth.
Throw away that youth
That jewel in the head
That bronze in the breath;
Walk with the dead
For fear of death.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by Angus Konstam
📖 Atlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood, foreword by Barry Cunliffe
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pick★★★★★
I would love to read a collection of full-length interviews and speeches.
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer: selected, translated, and adapted by Barbara Cohen, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
📖 Atlas of British History: Comprehensive Coverage from 54 B.C. to the Present Day by Martin Gilbert
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Earliest English Poetry: A Critical Survey of the Poetry Written Before the Norman Conquest, with Illustrative Translations by Charles W. Kennedy
📖 Celtic Way of Life by Angus McMahon
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Richard II and the Revolution of 1399 by Michael Bennett
📖 Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats (1839-1922) by William F. Murphy [recommended by Colm Toíbín in his book Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, which I enjoyed]
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug
📖 Bridgerland: Your Land and Mine by J. Arbon Chrustensen
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Booke of Common Prayer of the Churche of England: Its Making and Revisions 1549 - 1616: Set Forth in Eighty Illustrations, with Introduction and Notes by Edward C. Ratcliff
📖 Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan
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Recent acquisitions (from Amy's uncle's new wife):
📖 The Book of Mormon (1904 edition)
📖 The Book of Mormon (1931 edition)
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 The Penguin Book of Carols edited by Ian Bradley
📖 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Oxford World's Classics) - I collect editions of Tess and this is my 29th
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Wild Hares & Hummingbirds: The Natural History of an English Village by Stephen Moss
📖 The Romance of the London Directory by Charles W. Bardsley
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Started reading this yesterday
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Norton Critical Editions) - I collect editions of Tess and this is my 28th
📖 Stockholm (English Edition) by Per Anders Fogelström, photos by Åke Mokvist
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Recent graphic acquisitions:
📖 Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
📖 40 Years with Bagley: The Salt Lake Tribune by Pat Bagley
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Recent acquisitions:
📖 How Reason Can Lead to God by Joshua Rasmussen
📖 The Age of Chivalry by National Geographic Society
📖 The Christian Mind by Harry Blamires
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XXI
I dreamed of an out-thrust arm of land
Where gulls blew over a wave
That fell along miles of sand;
And the wind climbed up the caves
To tear at a dark-faced garden
Whose black flowers were dead,
And broke round a house we slept in,
A drawn blind and a bed.
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