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Tag: old book
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Bibliophilia: Startling Experiences!
I’m sure there are startling experiences in books, in having them and loving them? Maybe not so much. Neither is the inspiration for the title, though. No, this is named for the book I’m highlighting in this post. One in my collection, which I will admit readily I have not yet read, it caught the…
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Bibliophilia: Tennyson
Most of the antique books I have acquired over the years are still with me because they were books I had read, or was going to read. This one is a little different. The cover caught my eye, you see. This edition of Tennyson’s poetry is bound beautifully. Or it was… the spine is long…
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Book Review: Joanna Godden
I am quite out of countenance with my coffeepot. Yesterday, as I am batching it (wouldn’t that be a feminine in my case? But the word eludes me) I used the french press to make a modest amount of coffee and it was pleasantly mellow, no bitter notes at all. Today, as I anticipate…
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Review: Space Doctor
Awhile back I had discovered James White’s Sector General books and reviewed them on the blog. In comments afterward, Lee Correy’s Space Doctor was recommended. I should fill in some background. My dad was in emergency medicine all my life that I can remember. As a paramedic, EMT, and sometimes fireman, he was usually on…