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Library of Intentions
Books I bought: some left for later reading, some perused, or breathlessly read in one go, others coming back to, in order to relive the delight of the text.
Homer , The Iliad and the Odyssey
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I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
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Margaret Ho Lee, Collected Painting
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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
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Capturing Camelot:
Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys
Kitty Kelley
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Alexander the Great
Book by Philip Freeman
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November 22, 1963: Reflections on the Life, Assassination, and Legacy of John F. Kennedy
by Dean R. Owen
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HOMER. THE ODYSSEY. TRANSLATED BY. Robert Fagles
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
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Little that the old Irish Reverend Swift expected, EVER, to fall foul of Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu: not that Ceausescu ever read Swift, not even ANY books at all - he was famous for being semi-literate and to speak a very poor Romanian...
Yet would you believe it or not Jonathan Swift fell foul of the Communist censorship... read on the problems encountered by an editor in Bucharest in the 1980's who tried to publish Swift''s Satyres:
“Publishing Swift’s satires in 1985, I myself fought a lot with the censor in order to include “A Modest proposal” concerning eating Irish children, which had become subversive here on account of meat shortage in Romania. Faced with the alternative of not publishing the book at all, or doing it without the famous text, I gave it up. The supreme level of censorship was a department of the (Communist) Party Central Committee.”
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Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726. Though it has often been mistakenly thought of as a children's book, it is a great satire of the times. Gulliver's Travels is a misanthropic anatomy of human nature; a sardonic looking-glass. It asks its readers to refute it, to deny that it has not adequately characterized human nature and society. Each of the 4 books has a different theme, but all are attempts to deflate human pride. Critics hail the work as a satiric reflection on the failings of Enlightenment modernism.
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Remembering Jack: Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys
by Jacques Lowe,
Hugh Sidey,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Foreword)
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The Cigar Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide
by Anwer Bati, Simon Chase
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Kennedy's Avenger:
Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
by Dan Abrams, David Fisher
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Peril
Bob Woodword
Robert Costa
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Al Capone: A Life From Beginning to End
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These are books that I have read or will read at some point. The books are non fiction history,biographies and autobiography’s of people and historical events I found to be interesting.
Heroic Option - The Irish in the British Army
by Desmond and Jean Bowen
This is a Canadian couple born in the early 1920s who produced a scholarly very informative easy read book, which in a way is mind-blowing thinking of what has been a tremendous commitment of sacrifice and determination given by so many Irish heroes who built the British empire: not just Anglo-Irish toffs, but humble Catholics from poor peasant stock. Some names we know - we all know: the Duke of Wellington, Alexander of Tunis, Montgomery of Alamein, Alannbrooke - they and soldiers of their ilk made their reputation in America, in the Peninsular and Crimean wars, in India of the Raj, the Boer war and more recently in the First and Second World Wars, where all these past shadows come back to life, unexpectedly with some glorious stories.
I would not know if Desmond and Joan Bowen are related to Elizabeth Bowen of Bowen Court in Ireland (and Oxford) to be able to suggest that the talent runs in the family. But regardless of this possible link which may explain the Irish interest, this is a book which holds its own - a good read of humour and humanity doubled by sound research - a book which I recommend.
I bought my copy at the little bookshop counter at the Army Museum in Chelsea.
Homer , The Iliad and the Odyssey
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non #fiction, #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
The Cigar Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide
by Anwer Bati, Simon Chase
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The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
Wollongong Harbour
Belmore Basin
Photo date : July 2008
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I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
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Princess Marthe Bibesco, née Lahovary: "Le Perroquet Vert"
My Library of Intentions
Franco-Romanian complicities
See also: "Blouse Roumaine - An Anthology of Romanian Women"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson
One way to lose friends is to say something which is not fashionable about somebody like Boris Johnson: it is so much easier not to think for oneself and to regurgitate what the tabloids say. I noticed it the other day at a drinks party in south London (yes I do have friends south of the river!):
it struck me as plain lazy if not outright silly to repeat like a parrot headlines splashed on the news stand billboards... and caused me not to think much of the person whom I considered until then moderately intelligent before he gave 'his' opinion...
Why not see for myself, judge for myself, rather than recycle cliches?
Boris Johnson's kind of books , although inexpensively sold in paperback (some even in WH Smith at Victoria station - a bad omen) I would not normally read - it is not my thing! However, out of curiosity I decided to order several at my local Waterstone's bookshop (whose native salesmen do not even know how to spell such authors as Glendinning or Ondaatje...):when I put in the order I was looked at with a mixture of incredulity, amusement, suspicion and superiority by the young temp - thankfully I was not going to face him for much longer - these people do not stick for long in such places)...
Back to the story of my Saturday "drinks spotty" (sic) what my friend reproached Boris, among others, was that he appeared to be dressed casually at the Beijing Olympics ceremony, compared with the Chinese official who gave him the flag... I asked myself, where have I seen a British politician doing the same before? was it perhaps at the Cenotaph , the died-in-the wool "old Labour" Michael Foot?
Oh, but you see, Foot had plenty of excuses which would not apply to Boris in a society redolent with the resentment of class war typical of the best Stalinist practices, a society stuck in the mould of political correctness and global lukewarming.
Back to Johnson's books I finished his biography which i found amusing and informative giving a more rounded view of Boris and making him more humane than he otherwise appears, spontaneous, refreshing, cultivated, intelligent, predictable in his unpredictability....
"Cultivated" you say? but this is a cardinal sin which is looked at with greatest suspicion! Come on, who wants to be cultivated?
The other books I decided to read at intervals, a short story at a time and more of it later, For now all I can say from an incomplete trawl is that i would strongly recommend that you make up your own mind (unless it is too arduous or painful) and read for yourself.
Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story from Inside His Family
Book by Deirdre Marie Capone
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are books / magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly non fiction, history,biographies , autobiography’s and historical events I found to be interesting.
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852–22 May 1932), née Isabella Augusta Persse, was an Anglo-Irish dramatist and folklorist. With William Butler Yeats and others, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. She also produced a number of books of retellings of stories from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced in these writings, was emblematic of many of the changes to occur in Ireland during her lifetime.
However, Lady Gregory is mainly remembered for her driving force of the Irish Literary Revival. Her home at Coole Park, County Galway served as an important meeting place for the leading Revival figures and her early work as a member of the board of the Abbey was at least as important for the theatre's development as her creative writings were. Her motto, taken from Aristotle, was "To think like a wise man, but to express oneself like the common people."
source: wikipedia
As part of the project, all of the library account functionality that was previously only available in the OPAC has been implemented in a new "MyLibrary" site. The site uses the responsive Twitter Bootstrap framework with the Spacelab theme. Most interactions occur using Ajax (with a suitable fallback for non-JS browsers).
Alexander the Great:
Hourly History
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books / #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson
One way to lose friends is to say something which is not fashionable about somebody like Boris Johnson: it is so much easier not to think for oneself and to regurgitate what the tabloids say. I noticed it the other day at a drinks party in south London (yes I do have friends south of the river!):
it struck me as plain lazy if not outright silly to repeat like a parrot headlines splashed on the news stand billboards... and caused me not to think much of the person whom I considered until then moderately intelligent before he gave 'his' opinion...
Why not see for myself, judge for myself, rather than recycle cliches?
Boris Johnson's kind of books , although inexpensively sold in paperback (some even in WH Smith at Victoria station - a bad omen) I would not normally read - it is not my thing! However, out of curiosity I decided to order several at my local Waterstone's bookshop (whose native salesmen do not even know how to spell such authors as Glendinning or Ondaatje...):when I put in the order I was looked at with a mixture of incredulity, amusement, suspicion and superiority by the young temp - thankfully I was not going to face him for much longer - these people do not stick for long in such places)...
Back to the story of my Saturday "drinks spotty" (sic) what my friend reproached Boris, among others, was that he appeared to be dressed casually at the Beijing Olympics ceremony, compared with the Chinese official who gave him the flag... I asked myself, where have I seen a British politician doing the same before? was it perhaps at the Cenotaph , the died-in-the wool "old Labour" Michael Foot?
Oh, but you see, Foot had plenty of excuses which would not apply to Boris in a society redolent with the resentment of class war typical of the best Stalinist practices, a society stuck in the mould of political correctness and global lukewarming.
Back to Johnson's books I finished his biography which i found amusing and informative giving a more rounded view of Boris and making him more humane than he otherwise appears, spontaneous, refreshing, cultivated, intelligent, predictable in his unpredictability....
"Cultivated" you say? but this is a cardinal sin which is looked at with greatest suspicion! Come on, who wants to be cultivated?
The other books I decided to read at intervals, a short story at a time and more of it later, For now all I can say from an incomplete trawl is that i would strongly recommend that you make up your own mind (unless it is too arduous or painful) and read for yourself.
A Field Guide to Whisky: Everything You Need to Know About the New World of Whisky
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
Kennedy's Avenger:
Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
by Dan Abrams, David Fisher
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
History's Naughty Bits
by Karen Dolby
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The Cigar Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide
by Anwer Bati, Simon Chase
I put together a set titled , #Mybooks.
These are #books , #magazines that I have read or will read at some point.
The books are mainly #nonFiction , #history, #biographies , #autobiographys and #historicalevents I found to be #interesting.
This is #myLibrary
Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Biography by Adam Sisman
Lord Dacre, Doctor of Divinity, Regius professor of History Oxford, former Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Director of The Times newspaper London, remembered amongst others for his acclaimed "last Days of Hitler" but also of his involvement in the scandal of the forged Hitler's diaries.
When in old age he found himself the master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, he reviewed Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England by Maurice Cowling, the history don who had secured him the mastership. Cowling was the guru to such rightwing journalistic luminaries as Peregrine Worsthorne and Colin Welch of the Telegraph, and to that extent he was a person of influence. "The subject is the intellectual history of our time and the great spiritual crisis in which we have found ourselves," Trevor-Roper wrote. "I find, on reading it, that this intellectual history has unfolded itself, and this crisis has been observed, and is to be resolved, almost entirely within the walls of Peterhouse."
An excellent, balanced and thought-provoking account thorougly backed by references, quotations and illustrations. Hardback, 598 pages, Weidenfeld and nicolson, London, July 2010
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Adam Sisman was educated at St Pauls School and Sussex University. He worked full time as a publishers editor for 14 years, and has since undertaken a number of freelance projects for publishers, as well as ghost writing several books. From 1989 to 2000 he was a partner in a copywriting business. He has acted as a judge for various prizes, including the Whitbread Awards. In 2003 he was elected President of the Johnson Society of Lichfield, and he is currently President of the Boswell Society of Auchinleck. He is an occasional broadcaster on radio and television, and a frequent reviewer, most recently for the Sunday Telegraph, the Los Angeles Times and the Literary Review.
Mr O'Neil is a survivor of another era; he practically lives above the shop, that is his veterinary surgery and during his spare time he plays the piano upstairs.
he is reputed to have attended to the good health of Winston Churchill's dogs and his surgery is right next door's to John Sandoe's
john Sandoe's Bookshop is a survivor of a kind which traditionally nurtured links with authors. Its founder had his obituary in The Times.
NOTE:
O'Neil is now closed down...