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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 Once Upon a River: A Novel by Diane Setterfield #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 English Mediaeval Monasteries 1066-1540: A Summary by Roy Midmer #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 Adventures of a Waterboy by Mike Scott 2015 review: ★★★★★ #bookstodon

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  ★★★★☆ Byways: Photographs by Roger A. Deakins #bookstodon

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  Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck / Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen (Oxford World's Classics) #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 History: A Very Short Introduction by John H. Arnold #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief by Richard Barber #bookstodon

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  Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Thomas Hardy and Women: Sexual Ideology and Narrative Form by Penny Boumelha #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir by Bob Smith #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 Beowulf & Grendel: The Truth Behind England's Oldest Legend by John Grigsby #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 Christian Origins in Sociological Perspective by Howard Clark Key #bookstodon

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  Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Thomas Sunderland Hawkins: Biography of a Mormon Pioneer by Evelyn Hawkins Hughes When my dad's cousin posted in a family Facebook group that he had copies of a biography of our ancestor to give away, I gratefully requested one. Hawkins, my great-great-great grandfather, was born in Birmingham, England 1829, joined the LDS (Mormon) Church '48, moved to Utah Territory, USA '51-'52, moved to Arizona Territory &#39...

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, illustrated by Nancy Barnhart I keep a small collection of books on my desk at the public library where I work and this is one of them. 2014 rating of a different edition: ★★★★★ #bookstodon

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  Recent acquisitions for our personal library: 📖 Adventures of Robin Hood by Eleanor Graham Vance Father's Day gifts from my daughter. #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama #bookstodon

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  '...the fate of Charles the First, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.' 📖 Common Sense by Thomas Paine (Pelican Classics), p. 71 #bookstodon

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  Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Folk Tales of Yorkshire by H. L. Gee Father's Day gift from my partner, Amy. ❤️ #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd #bookstodon

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  'The normalisation of immoral conduct in public office may be Trump's lasting legacy.' Opinion: As Leaders Suffer Moral Malaise, Thank Heavens for the Pope Simon Tisdall Guardian Weekly 10 July 2026 Vol. 215 No. 2

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  Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg #1 in a series. I already owned this in a cheap 'book club edition' hardback but when I found it and others in the series in cool Penguin paperbacks with movie tie-in covers at a local charity shop, I had to get them. #bookstodon

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  ★★★★☆ 🎞 The Odyssey directed by Christopher Nolan 📖 Based on Homer's Odyssey See the film for Anne Hathaway's Penelope, Elliot Page's Sinon, Samantha Morton's Circe, and John Leguizamo's Eumaeus. #filmstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Antonia Fraser #bookstodon

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  Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg #2 in The Emigrants series. I love these cool Penguin paperbacks with movie tie-in covers. #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 Utah Libraries: Keystone of Healthy Democracy, Student Success, and Prosperous Communities by Utah Library Advocates #bookstodon

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  Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Last Letter Home by Vilhelm Moberg #4 in the Emigrants series (yes, #3 was missing from the others at the charity shop). I love these cool Penguin paperbacks with movie tie-in covers. #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 Truth Will Prevail: The Rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles, 1837-1987 edited by V. Ben Bloxham #bookstodon

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  Recent acquisition for our personal library: 📖 Midwinter Break: A Novel by Bernard MacLaverty. The new film based on this book looks good! #bookstodon

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  Random book from our personal library: 📖 The Beginnings of English Society by Dorothy Whitelock (The Pelican History of England 2) #bookstodon

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  ‘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. I don't have a fairy fort in my garden, but if I did I wouldn't allow it to be removed, and if it were removed I would expect bad luck, and soon. (My neighbors have one, and it won't in our lifetime or...

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