Random book from our home library:
📖 Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Illustrated Throughout in Full Colour) by William Blake
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Random book from our home library:
📖 Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Illustrated Throughout in Full Colour) by William Blake
Recent fiction acquisition:
📖 The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
Random book from our home library:
📖 Warwick Castle [souvenir guide - not in Litsy]
I have lots of souvenir guides to places in the UK that I've never visited. I believe I even have two different editions of this one. Have I mentioned that I'm an Anglophile bibliophile?
The last film I saw was Hitchcock's North by Northwest with my daughter at a local theatre that plays old films. It was great except that the DVD had problems halfway through and they had to stop the playback to fix it. #FridayFilms
Random book from our home library:
📖 This is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright by Emma Smith
p. 271: 'It was better to award a light penance that would one day put someone into purgatory to endure further punishment there, than to assign a heavy one that would not be done and might send the defaulter to hell.'
That's not what I expected from medieval confessors. Unfortunately, Orme doesn't cite his source for this attitude.
On to the section about Holy Week, which is obviously timely.
Random book from our home library:
📖 Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall
We originally had a paperback reprint but I later found this beautiful 1950s hardback - first edition? - at a local charity shop.
Random book from our home library:
📖 Collected Poems of Edward Thomas
When I was thinking of what song to play as I traveled to my local Hands Off protest last Saturday, I remembered Sea Power's great track, Who's In Control?
'Sometimes I wish protesting was sexy on a Saturday night!'
Links below. #TuesdayTunes
Recent acquisition:
📖 Twelfth Night (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare, edited by Jonathan Crewe
Random book from our home library:
📖 Britain (LIFE World Library) by John Osborne
Random book from our home library:
📖 The Story of the Champions of the Round Table Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle
Recent acquisition:
📖 In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell
Random book from our home library:
📖 Great Tales from English History, Vol. 1: The Truth About King Arthur, Lady Godiva, Richard the Lionheart, and More by Robert Lacey, illustrated by Fred van Deelen ★★★★★
Random book from our home library:
📖 The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
Recent acquisition:
📖 Sun Dancing: A Vision of Medieval Ireland by Geoffrey Moorhouse
Random book from our home library:
📖 Fabulae Mirabiles: Fairy Tales in Latin (Hippocrene Foreign Language Studies) by Victor Barocas
so-so★★★☆☆
I have a problem with the fact that the Irish were barely mentioned before page 70, that the author's main point didn't emerge until page 183 (this in a book of only 250 pages), and that the final 50 pages of core subject matter felt rushed. Also, the Irish didn't save civilisation in general as the title seems to say - they played a critical role in preserving Greek and Roman writings.
Recent acquisition:
📖 Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle by Michael Jones
Cahill finally getting to his thesis on page 183:
'While Rome and its ancient empire faded from memory and a new, illiterate Europe rose on its ruins, a vibrant, literary culture was blooming in secret along its Celtic fringe.'
Random book from our home library:
📖 Strange Planet by Nathan Pyle
Recent acquisition:
📖 U2: The Rolling Stone Files: The Ultimate Compendium of Interviews, Articles Facts and Opinions from the Files of Rolling Stone
As a fan for nearly 30 years, this one has been on my radar for a long time. I couldn't pass up this British edition for only $1.99 at a local media store!
Random book from our home library:
📖 England at Large by Ethel Mannin
Recent acquisition:
📖 The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible by Harold Bloom
p. 108: 'So Patrick was really a first - the first missionary to barbarians beyond the reach of Roman law. The step he took was in its way as bold as Columbus's, and a thousand times more humane.'
Random book from our home library:
📖 Green Blades Rising: The Anglo-Saxons by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Random book from our home library:
📖 Once & Future volume 2 by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora, Tamra Bonvillain
Recent acquisition:
📖 Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton, With an Introduction and Notes on Its Structure and Meaning by John A. Himes
Random book from our home library:
📖 Allen Brown's English Castles by R. Allen Brown
Random book from our home library:
📖 Richard III: England's Black Legend by Desmond Seward
pick★★★★★
? Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt"s Ireland by David Pritchard, forward by Malachy McCourt
Random book from our home library:
📖 Regions of the Imagination: The Development of British Rural Fiction by W. J. Keith
Recent acquisition:
📖 The Legend of Robin Goodfellow by Phineas Cricket
Random book from our home library:
📖 Medieval English Verse and Prose edited by Loomis & Willard
Random book from our home library:
📖 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, introduction by Marcelle Clements (Signet Classics)
Recent acquisition:
📖 A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner
Yesterday, I was pleased to find two Billy Bragg CDs at a local charity shop. I'm currently listening to Don't Try This at Home for the first time and I'm looking forward to listening to The Internationale. #TuesdayTunes
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📖 How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill
Recent acquisition:
📖 The Origins of Religious Dissent in England: An Account of the Origins and Events of the First English Revolt Against the Supreme Authority of the Roman Church by K. B. McFarlane
p. 232: 'The fact that all were at rest after the working week in a spiritual and social environment may ... have been a source of comfort.'
Random book from our home library:
📖 Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney
Random book from our home library:
📖 No Unhallowed Hand (The Work and the Glory 7) by Gerald Lund
Recent acquisition:
📖 The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
Random book from our home library:
📖 Geoffrey Chaucer (Bloom's Major Poets)
Random book from our home library:
📖 On an Irish Island by Robert Kanigel
Recent acquisition:
📖 Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats
Random book from our home library:
📖 Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony by Madeleiene Pelner Cosman
Apparently #FridayFilms isn't already a thing. I plan to watch Ingmar Bergman's Nattvardsgästerna (usually called 'Winter Light' or 'The Communicants' in the US) tonight with my adult daughter.
Random book from our home library:
📖 Jesus by Michael Grant
