Random book from our personal library: 📖 Deor edited by Kemp Malone en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deor #Booksky #OldEnglish #poetry

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Vaughan Williams by Simon Heffer I've wanted this short biography of my favourite composer for a while now and was excited to find it in the online inventory of local shop The Book Garden. #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Goshawk by T. H. White #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World by Pádraig Ó Tuama #booksky #CelticSpirituality

Random book from our personal library: 📖 1066: The Year of the Three Battles by Frank McLynn Another book with an old sword on the cover. #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England by H. R. Ellis Davidson #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham H. Maslow #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 What is Anglicanism? by Urban T. Holmes III #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 King Arthur's Britain: A Photographic Odyssey by John Matthews and Michael J. Stead #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Celtic Prayers: A Book of Celtic Devotion, Daily Prayers and Blessings by Robert Van de Weyer #booksky

Started 📖 The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece by Carola Hicks #booksky

★★★★★ 📖 A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín I started this two weeks ago in the midst of a series of migraines and a day of stomach issues - quite a time to enter the first essay about the author's experience with cancer. Somehow it was just right. ⤵️

Random book from our personal library: Hondert vyf en vyftig bybelsche print verbeeldingen, vertoonende de voornaamste historien der H: Schriftuur, cierlyk in het koper gebragt door Andries van Buysen, en met Nederduytsche vaersen verciert door Reynier van Anslo (1736) English translation below ⤵️

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Cathedrals & Abbeys of England by Stephen Platten #booksky #ChurchGoing

Recent acquisition for our personal library: These Saints Are Stones: Poems by @millietullis.bsky.social #booksky #poetry

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard #booksky #NotHamnet

‘Irish Catholicism has many mansions, but one of them includes a good bedrock of paganism, or animism. I've never heard the banshee knock on my door in the night to announce that someone in the family would soon die, but I think I would know the sound if I heard it. 1/2

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Secret Churches: Ecclesiastical Gems from Around Britain & Ireland by Richard Surman #booksky #ChurchGoing

Random book from our personal library: 📖 In Memoriam: An Authoritative Text / Backgrounds and Sources / Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition) by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, edited by Robert H. Ross #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography by Janine Barchas, illustrated by Isabel Greenberg #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Day Michael Collins was Shot by Meda Ryan Rating from sometime 1999-2003: ★★★★★ I've been very interested in the life of Irish politician Michael Collins (1890-1922) since I viewed the biopic starring Liam Neeson nearly 30 years ago. 1/2

Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg Found this after watching the films directed by Jan Troell and starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. I enjoyed them and have thought a lot about my ancestors who emigrated from Scandinavia to Utah, USA:

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Edward the First (Twelve English Statesmen) by T. F. Tout #booksky #monarchy

Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Secret Life of Bees: A Novel by Sue Monk Kidd #booksky #fiction

'As she dropped by on her way back from a performance, I loved asking her if there had been a big crowd at the play. This is what you did in Enniscorthy, where I'm from. 1/2 📖 A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín, p. 15 #booksky #ColmTóibín

Started 📖 A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín #booksky #ColmTóibín

★★★★☆ 📖 On Care For Our Common Home (Laudato Si) by Pope Francis A little more than a year since Francis died and I started this book. #booksky #PopeFrancis

Random book from our personal library: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics) translated by Betty Radice, edited by Michael Clanchy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters... #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Bannockburn: A Soldier's Appreciation of the Battle by Philip Christison #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries by Emma Thompson, introduction by Lindsey Doran, photographs by Clive Coote #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Adventures of Robin Hood by Marcia Williams #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Richard: The Young King To Be by Josephine Wilkinson #booksky

‘True statecraft is manifest when, in difficult times, we uphold high principles and think of the long-term common good.' 📖 On Care For Our Common Home (Laudato Si) by Pope Francis, p. 87 #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Conquerors (The Pageant of England) by Thomas B. Costain #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 The Royal Bastards of Medieval England by Chris Given-Wilson and Alice Curteis #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Another Brick in the Wall: The Stories Behind Every Pink Floyd Song by Cliff Jones #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Autobiographies (Collected Works of W. B. Yeats) edited by William H. O'Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Marcus King, Mormon by Nephi Anderson Another of my great-grandfather's novels. #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrnan #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 The Senate Speeches of W. B. Yeats edited by Donald R. Pearce #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Good Book: A Humanist Bible made by A. C. Grayling #booksky #humanism

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Ingmar Bergman: Cinematic Philosopher by Irving Singer 2022 rating: ★★★★☆ #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library. 📖 The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham I've never read Maugham but for $1 I'll bring home a Penguin memoir with a cigarette burn. #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason #booksky

Halfway 📖 The Latter-day Saint Image in the British Mind by Malcolm Adcock & Fred E. Woods #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Miracles: Is Belief in the Supernatural Irrational? by John Lennox #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Robin Hood: Timeless Classic Stories for Today (Eyewitness Classics) by Neil Philip, illustrated by Nick Harris #booksky

Random book from our personal library: 📖 Lives of Three English Saints edited by G. I. Needham #booksky

Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers #booksky