Recent acquisition for our personal library.
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Recent acquisition for our personal library.
#glastonbury #powys #novel
Random book from our personal library.
#oldenglish #poetry
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our personal library. My apologies for displaying a dead person ('Tollund Man'), especially one who probably died violently, with no warning.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our personal library.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our personal library.
One of ten novels written by my great-grandfather more than a century ago.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Every once in a while, you find something good at the dollar store.
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our home library.
My 2017 rating: ★★★★★
Recent acquisition for our personal library.
Random book from our home library.
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.
Random book from our home library:
📖 Castles and Abbeys of Wales by D. J. Cathcart King
Recent home library acquisition:
📖 On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US by James LaRue (signed by the author)
Started this about 10 days ago for work. Definitely not my usual.
Random book from our home library:
📖 An Encyclopedia of World History edited by William Langer
Recent home library acquisition:
📖 Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
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.'
Random book from our home library:
📖 Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy
Recent home library acquisition:
📖 Manifesto: The Battle for Green Britain (Revised and Updated) by Dale Vince
Random book from our home library:
📖 English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages by Hardin Craig
Recent home library acquisition:
📖 The Origin and Early History of Christianity in Britain by Andrew Gray
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
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)
Recent home library acquisition:
📖 The Little Book of Shakespeare
Random book from our home library:
📖 Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
This edition was my late grandfather's when he was a boy.
Recent home library acquisition:
📖 The Romance of Tristan by Béroul
LibraryThing says I have 65 books related to King Arthur and 149 Penguin Classics.
so-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.
Random book from our home library:
📖 Images of Faith: Art of the Latter-day Saints by Richard G. Oman & Robert O. Davis
Random book from our home library:
📖 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever selected and with introductions by Christopher Hitchens
Recent home library acquisition:
📖 Robin Hood (The Children's Classics) by anonymous, introduced by George Cockburn Harvey, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie
Random book from our home library:
📖 Robert Frost: Selected Poems (Gramercy Great Poets)
Random book from our home library:
📖 The Folklore of Glamorgan by Alan Roderick
Random book from our home library:
📖 Re-Viewing The Passion: Mel Gibson's Movie and its Critics edited by S. Brent Plate
Recent home library acquisition:
📖 The Anglo-Saxon State by James Campbell
Random book from our home library:
📖 Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture by Seamus Heaney
2013 review: ★★★★★
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