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Joseph N. Anderson (he/him) · ¹husband of Amy ²father ³friend ⁴ally ⁵anglophile ⁶𝔪𝔢𝔡𝔦𝔞𝔢𝔳𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱 ⁷public librarian ⁸high church humanist ⁹green ¹⁰democratic socialist, &c. · Shoshone-land / UT, US · #booksky

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𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 4h

After posting this morning, I discovered that today is Collins' 135th birthday.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 5h

Random book from our personal library:

📖 Michael Collins: Some Original Documents in His Own Hand introduced by Brian P. Murphy

2012 rating: ★★★★★

#booksky

Shows the cover, which features pages of paper with older handwriting on them.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 1d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 The King’s English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller by Betsy Burton

Memoir by the co-founder of the famous Salt Lake City bookshop.

#booksky

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𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 2d

Recent acquisition for our personal library (birthday present from my wife, Amy):

📖 Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane

#booksky

Shows the book standing on a wood floor next to some rolled up maps and in front of other Macfarlane books.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 3d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 Recipes: The Cooking of Scandinavia (Food of the World) by Time-Life Books

#booksky

Shows the cover, which features a photo of a Scandinavian food.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 4d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 The Art of Sleepy Hollow, including the screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker, with an introduction by Tim Burton

#booksky

Shows the cover, which features characters from the film.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 4d

My favorites 2020-2024:

www.librarything.com/catalog/bibl...

#booksky

Shows the covers of all 10 books in a grid with four on the top row, four on the middle row, and two on the bottom row.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Friday (best day of the week)! Here's another recent acquistion for our personal library.

📖 William Wallace by Andrew Fisher (new edition)

Our son gave me this for my birthday.

#booksky

Shows the book, with a cover featuring an illustration of a medieval battle, on a shelf in front of other books about Wallace, King Edward I, others.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 7d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 @kingscollege.bsky.social and Its Chapel by John Saltmarsh

#booksky

Shows the cover, which features the chapel.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 8d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays edited by Jason Fisher

#booksky

Shows the cover, which features an illustration of the dragon Smaug sitting in his gold hoard.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 9d

Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 Landmarks of Britain

#booksky

Shows the book on a wooden floor standing in front of other books about Britain and its history

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 10d

Halfway done.

📖 On Care For Our Common Home (Laudato Si) by Pope Francis

#booksky

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 11d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 William Wallace: A Scots Life by Glenn Telfer

A few years ago I aquired this Scots-language biography of the medieval freedom fighter written for teens. Our own teens weren't as excited as I was.

#booksky

Shows the cover, which features an impressionistic painted portrait of a bearded man.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 12d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 A Modern Guide to Norse Paganism: The Earth-Centered Religion that Empowers Us to Embrace Our Inner Viking and Take Charge of Our Fate by Quinby C. Larson

I received this from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Still need to read it.

#booksky

Shows the cover, which features an illustration of a bearded, hooded figure holding a staff with a raven on top in his left hand and throwing runestones with his right hand.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 13d

Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 Danmark: Land og by (Denmark: Country and City)

#booksky

Shows the cover, which features what appears to be country fields and houses or outbuildings.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 14d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 The Fighting Kings of Wessex by G. P. Baker

I found this one at Pioneer Book, a cool indie in Provo, Utah, a couple years ago.

#booksky

Shows the cover, which features a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry with King Harold of Wessex ('HAROLDO REGIS').

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 15d

While I don't much care for the British monarchy these days, Diana's death occured around the time I was discovering my anglophilia as a teenager and it had a big effect on me. It's strange to think back on that time now.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 15d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 Requiem: Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-1997: Memories and Tributes edited by Brian MacArthur

#booksky

Shows the cover, which featutes a photo of Diana smiling and facing the camera in a seated position with her arms around her knees while wearing a tiara, earrings, necklace, and white strapless dress.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 16d

Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 Britain's Heritage edited by John Julius Norwich

#booksky

Shows the book, which features a triptych of photos of a tree-lined walk, a painting of Richard II, and a cathedral on its cover, standing upright on a wood floor in front of other books about British history.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 17d

This is one of the worst Tess covers because it portrays Tess as a seductress, which is just not accurate, and because of the sentence, '...a woman's unwilling fall from virtue'. That's called rape, Mr. Book Designer in 1955 and you obviously haven't read Hardy's subtitle: 'A Pure Woman.'

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 17d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Pocket Books)

Terrible cover. See comment.

#booksky

Cover shows a man carrying a woman in a low-cut dress and bare feet in a submissive and sensual, laid-back pose.

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𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 17d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Pocket Books)

Terrible cover. See comment.

#booksky

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 18d

Random book from our personal library:

📖 Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman: Smiles of a Summer Night / The Seventh Seal / Wild Strawberries / The Magician

#bookstagram

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 19d

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

📖 The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, retold by Philip Edwards, illustrated by Adam Horsepool

I collect all things Robin Hood and this is book #75:

www.librarycat.org/lib/biblioth...

#booksky

Shows the book, which features a cartoon Robin drawing back an arrow on its cover, on a shelf in front of other Robin Hood books.

𝖎𝖔𝖘𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖛𝖘 𝖇𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖛𝖘🕯️ @bibliothecarivs.bsky.social · 20d

This is one of those books I had to add to our collection in solidarity with fellow workers, but also because it was about the English, was published by Penguin Classics, and, if I'm honest, because it was inexpensive.