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Recent acquisitions:

📖 Wallace Stegner's Salt Lake City by Robert C. Steensma
📖 Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir by Séamas O'Reilly

Recent acquisitions (birthday gifts from my family):

📖 Chaucer's Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury by Paul Strohm
📖 Robin Hood by Reginald de Koven, Adapted by Lous von Haupt as a Children's Opera-Story to be Played, Read, Sung, or Informally Dramatized
📖 English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages by E.K. Chambers

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Poetic Edda: A New Translation by Carolyne Larrington
📖 The Case For Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity by Lee Strobel

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer
📖 A Lost Language and Other Essays on Chaucer by Sister Madeleva

'Yet after a brief tour of [Lindisfarne Castle], I encounter a familiar paradox: a tour of a fortress tires me, while a visit to a roofless priory somehow fortifies. Over the centuries, paths of pilgrims have tended to lead away from castles, not toward them.'

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Folklore of Glamorgan by Alan Roderick
📖 Village Tales by Henry Williamson
📖 Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Welcome to the Episcopal Church: An Introduction to Its History, Faith, and Worship by Christopher L. Webber
📖 Walk in Love: Episcopal Beliefs and Practices by Scott Gunn and Melody Wilson Shobe
📖 My Faith My Life: A Teen's Guide to the Episcopal Church by Jennifer Gambler

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Recent acquisitions:

📖 My Struggle (Book One) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
📖 From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks
📖 Durkheim is Dead!: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Sociological Theory by Arthur Asa Berger

Recent fiction acquisitions:

📖 My Life For My Sheep by Alfred Duggan
📖 The Rose Rent (The Thirteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael) by Ellis Peters
📖 The Trial of Elizabeth Cree: A Novel of the Limehouse Murders by Peter Ackroyd

'I'm not a religious believer, yet despite that I go to church. I love the architecture, the music, the words of the Bible, and the sense of sharing something profound with other people. I have long found deep spiritual peace in the great cathedrals, as do many millions of people, believers and nonbelievers alike.'

'The ideal Protestant minister had a degree, a wife and family, and he was in short supply until late in Elizabeth's reign.'

'It's probably time we put the lie to the notion that all of us "independents" are so free from shepherds.... We are all following something, whether we know it or not. It is better to consciously choose who or what we are going to follow.'

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Mediaeval Mystics of England edited by Eric Colledge
📖 Building the “Goodly Fellowship of Faith“: A History of the Episcopal Church in Utah 1867-1996 by Frederick Quinn

Recent acquisitions:

📖 The Book of Hours by John Harthan
📖 The Arthurian Book of Days: The Greatest Legend in the World Retold Throughout the Year by Caitlin & John Matthews

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Richard Burton: A Life by Melvyn Bragg
📖 A Cornish Childhood by A.L. Rowse

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Recent acquisitions:

📖 Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
📖 Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

'Call it my naive idealism. Call it my foolish wish to live in a world in which I don't have to dispense or receive dehumanizing treatment. But I live in hope that this could one day be the norm, not the exception.'

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Within the dream you said:
Let us kiss then,
In this room, in this bed,
But when all's done,
We must not meet again.

Hearing this last word,
There was no lambing-night,
No gale-driven bird
Nor frost-encircled root
As cold as my heart.

'By doing all of this with our eyes open to our mortality and while harboring no sweet notion of heaven to console us, we are disproving that seculars crumble under the vast weight of supposed nothingness. We are proving, as the pithy slogan of the American Humanist Association puts it, that people and life can be "good without a god."' 3/3

'We are demonstrating every day that godlessness does not lead to the horrors that alarmist religion promoters warm us about. We are, for the most part, people who enjoy our lives. We are, by and large and imperfectly, good citizens who tend to our responsibilities, take care of our kids, love our spouses and parents, and try to make the world a fairer and better place. 2/3

'Despite shrill warnings about the nihilism to which secular living supposedly must lead, despite the claims that without God people are doomed to living life with no notion of good and bad - why not just kill for sport? - most of us in this wildly diverse collection of non-religious, nontheistic individuals are managing fine, more or less. 1/3

Recent acquisitions (gifts from my good friend and fellow bibliophile, @ShawnFromUtah):

📖 World War Z by Max Brooks
📖 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
📖 Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden

'The Constitution assured the right to vote, but there is no such assurance of the right to adequate housing, or the right to an adequate income. And yet, in a nation which has a gross national product of 750 billion dollars a year [in 1966], it is morally right to insist that every person has a decent house, an adequate education and enough money to provide basic necessities for one's family.'

Recent acquisitions (not from England):

📖 The Irish Guyed: A Fearless Peep Behind the Emerald Curtain by Shamus O'Shamus and dekkorated by Dekk
📖 The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales: Little Known Tales as Well as Treasured Classics: With 60 Illustrations
📖 Seeds in the Wind: Early Signs of Genius: From Virginia Woolf to Graham Greene edited by Neville Braybrooke

Recent acquisitions from England part 10:

📖 Robin Hood: The True History Behind the Legend by Nigel Cawthorn
📖 Robin Hood: Outlaw or Greenwood Myth by Fran & Geoff Doel
📖 Storyworlds of Robin Hood: The Origins of a Medieval Outlaw by Lesley Coote
📖 Robin Hood: Legend and Reality by David Crook
📖 Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked by David Baldwin

Recent acquisitions from England part 9:

📖 Shakespeare by McBean
📖 Olivier by Philip Ziegler

Both purchased at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon

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Recent acquisitions from England part 8:

📖 A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems by A. E. Housman
📖 The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland
📖 Tales from Wessex by Thomas Hardy

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