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Joseph N. Anderson (he/him) · ¹husband of Amy ²father ³friend ⁴ally ⁵anglophile ⁶mediævalist ⁷public librarian ⁸high church humanist ⁹green ¹⁰democratic socialist, &c. · Shoshone-land / UT, US · bibliothecarivs.blogspot.com · #booksky
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 Educated: A Memoir by @tarawestover.bsky.social

2022 review: ★★★★★

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Shows the cover, which features an illustration of a pencil tip with a figure climbing on a mountain on it.
December 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 Worth the Wrestle by Sheri Dew

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Shows the cover, which features a cartoon illustration of a man carrying many things but looking up to a rod above him by James C. Christensen.
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

We already had this title, but I replaced it with this fun Puffin Classics edition.

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Shows the book, with a cover that features the bottom half of Tom standing next to a river on its cover, on a bookshelf in front of other Puffin Classics.
December 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 Her Majesty’s Tower of London (Pitkin Pictorials) by Olwen Hedley

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Shows the cover, which features a beefeater (traditional guard of the Tower of London).
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 The Seafarer by anonymous, edited by Ida L. Gordon

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea...

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Shows the cover, which features Anglo-Saxon knotwork at the top and bottom.
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

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Shows the book, which features a skyscape behind a curtain, on a shelf in front of other novels.
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess by Alison Weir

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Shows the cover, which features a medieval painting of a high-born woman as well as some floral embellishments.
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

2016 rating: ★★★★★

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Shows the cover, which features silhouettes of a man, a woman, and a chimpanzee, a well as three book prize medals.
December 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 The Celtic Gods: Comets in Irish Mythology by Patrick McCafferty and Mike Baillie

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Shows the book standing on a rug next to a stack of other books on Celtic mythology and folklore.
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Halfway

📖 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: A Play by Tom Stoppard

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Shows the book, which features a stark black and white photo of a man in period dress on the cover, lying on a hardwood floor.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 The New English Bible with the Apocrypha

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Shows the cover, which has a decorated cross in the upper right.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 Private Life in the Fifteenth Century: Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family edited by Roger Virgoe

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Shows the cover, which displays six small panels featuring scenes from daily life from medieval manuscripts.
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 Choices by Liv Ullmann

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Shows the cover, which features a close up portrait of Ullmann.
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 Utah's Historic Architecture 1847-1940: A Guide by Thomas Carter & Peter Goss.

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Shows the cover, which features a black and white photograph of an historic home.
December 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Random book from our home library:

📖 Norwegian Folk Tales from the Collection of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jorgen Moe, illustrated by Erik Werenskiold and Theodor Kittelsen

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Shows the cover, which features an illustration of a couple adults, including a king, and a couple children standing around a cow.
December 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Started

📖 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: A Play by Tom Stoppard

Reading for the first time in memory of the Czech-English playwright, who died Saturday.

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Shows the book, which features a stark black and white photo of a man in period dress on the cover, lying on a hardwood floor.
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson

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Shows the cover, which features a horizontal photo of a period painting of, I assume, the scholars that made the KJV Bible, turned vertical so that it fits the shape of a standard book.
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 With Michael Collins in the Fight for Irish Independence by Batt O'Connor

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Shows the cover, which features a framed photo of O'Connor in the foreground and a framed photo of Collins in the background.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 Winston's War: Churchill 1940-1945 by Max Hastings

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Shows the book, which features a famous photo of Churchill standing in a field watching a fighter plane fly by on its cover, standing on a shelf in front of CD spines.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 Station Island by Seamus Heaney

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Shows the book, which features an illustration of many people on a beach bordered by Celtic knotwork on its cover.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Tóibín

2020 rating: ★★★★★

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Shows the cover, which features people dressed in all black carrying crosses as they walk a trail.
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Halfway

📖 The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede edited with an introduction and notes by Judith McClure and Roger Collins

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Shows the book, which features a colour photo of a manuscript on its cover, standing on a piece of wood with tree leaves behind it.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by A. H. Maslow

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Shows the book, with a cover that features a type of colour wheel, standing on a wooden floor in front of the spines of other books on sociology and psychology.
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Random book from our personal library:

📖 Demography: The Study of Human Population (Second Edition) by David Yaukey and Douglas L. Anderton

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Shows the cover, which features a photo of many different arms and hands reaching for a representation of the Earth.
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Random book from our personal library.:

📖 Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger

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Shows the cover, which features a black and white photo of some men, one of which is a young Eric Blair - 'George Orwell'.
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM