Julie Rugg
Author of A Book Addict's Treasury
About the Author
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Titles about books and food are attributed to a Julie Rugg in York, but it is not clear if they are by the University of York author of books about housing and death.
Works by Julie Rugg
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The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal (1997) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Rugg, Julie Joyce
- Gender
- female
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- University of York
- Short biography
- [from University of York website]
Julie Rugg started working at the University in 1991. Her work is focussed on policy evaluation and principal areas of expertise include the private rented sector (PRS), housing assistance within the welfare system and qualitative analysis of housing behaviours. She is particularly interested in the ways the PRS functions as a ‘complex system', and her work seeks to understand characteristics of rental sub-markets, the behaviours of tenants and landlords, and the operation and impact of enforcement activity. She is currently leading a large ESRC-funded project ‘Understanding criminality in the private rented sector and co producing solutions'. Julie has also published extensively on cemeteries and funeral practice and is Director of the Cemetery Research Group. - Places of residence
- York, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Disambiguation notice
- Titles about books and food are attributed to a Julie Rugg in York, but it is not clear if they are by the University of York author of books about housing and death.
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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This is an anthology of quotations and extracts about books and booklovers, and it's a perfect example of what this kind of anthology should be. The quotations range in length from a couple of lines to a couple of pages, but they are all interesting, fresh and cleverly expressed. They are intelligently arranged: by topic - a chapter on buying books, say, or on shelving them - and within this clustered around themes, so sometimes one quote disagrees with the one before it. And as a final show more gift, the index is a joy:
teeth, painted scarlet, 49
temptations,
- defied, 77
- liable to great, 199
or margins, a tabula rasa, 195
Marines, tell it to the, 156
Marks and Spencer sandwich, 99
marks, needing an index to give conformity and meaning, 200
masterpieces, woefully mistaken on power of, 132
men, greater, unable to find, 142.
You can find something quotable on almost every page. I've chosen this one because it's about the right length, as well as being one of my favourite ones:
I remember once on coming into my library that I was persistently disturbed by my 'Jane Eyre'. Going up to it, wondering what was the matter with it, restless because of it, I only after a morning's uneasiness discovered that it had been placed next to my Jane Austens, and anyone who remembers how sharply Charlotte criticised Jane will understand why this would never do. (Hugh Walpole)
Sadly the story about Wordsworth cutting the pages of a book with a dirty butter-knife, bemoaning the damage as he did so but unable to stop long enough to get a clean one, was too long.
Recommended for: any book devotee who will be relieved to realise that they aren't alone in their strange book-related behaviours! show less
teeth, painted scarlet, 49
temptations,
- defied, 77
- liable to great, 199
or margins, a tabula rasa, 195
Marines, tell it to the, 156
Marks and Spencer sandwich, 99
marks, needing an index to give conformity and meaning, 200
masterpieces, woefully mistaken on power of, 132
men, greater, unable to find, 142.
You can find something quotable on almost every page. I've chosen this one because it's about the right length, as well as being one of my favourite ones:
I remember once on coming into my library that I was persistently disturbed by my 'Jane Eyre'. Going up to it, wondering what was the matter with it, restless because of it, I only after a morning's uneasiness discovered that it had been placed next to my Jane Austens, and anyone who remembers how sharply Charlotte criticised Jane will understand why this would never do. (Hugh Walpole)
Sadly the story about Wordsworth cutting the pages of a book with a dirty butter-knife, bemoaning the damage as he did so but unable to stop long enough to get a clean one, was too long.
Recommended for: any book devotee who will be relieved to realise that they aren't alone in their strange book-related behaviours! show less
A lovely collection of quotations for those who enjoy books. Some are thought-provoking, some hilarious, some ridiculous. Most are like a convention of bibliophiles in a pub, each stating their love of books and all those gathered round are nodding their heads. When you consider that the gathered souls in this pub are from several different centuries, yet expressing sentiments we modern bibliophiles can identify with, you will see why I loved this book. I was sad and startled when I turned show more the page only to find that I had come to the end and all that was left was the index. Still, there are many books and authors whose quotes are included here which it will be fun to seek out. show less
Ok this is a keeper. The organization is awfully clever, as each chapter is about one aspect of loving books. Additionally, within in each chapter, the quotes are arranged so that each very often directly contradicts, or further illuminates, the one preceding it.
I also appreciate the diversity of quotes from many eras and from people of different walks of life and of different degrees of renown. I do wish there were more non-Western inclusions, though. And there's a handy subject index, as show more well as an author index.
Great fun, especially in morsels of time. Recommended to readers, writers, collectors, reviewers. Probably especially recommended to digital readers, as you could highlight, cross-reference, comment, etc. to your heart's content. show less
I also appreciate the diversity of quotes from many eras and from people of different walks of life and of different degrees of renown. I do wish there were more non-Western inclusions, though. And there's a handy subject index, as show more well as an author index.
Great fun, especially in morsels of time. Recommended to readers, writers, collectors, reviewers. Probably especially recommended to digital readers, as you could highlight, cross-reference, comment, etc. to your heart's content. show less
Very enjoyable - nice to discover that there are other obsessives out there. Also dangerous, I identified at least 3 books that I now want fraom the extracts in this anthology, and have just bought one of them. Ms Rugg, you're a bad influence.
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