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1Cynfelyn
Wythnos 1, 1-7 Ionawr.
Keeping track of my reading and buying last year, http://www.librarything.com/topic/185654, was a useful and occasionally sobering exercise, so I'll think I'll do that again. Including perhaps an attempted justification for each purchase! But you know, I don't think I'll set myself reading targets this year. Trying to meet targets is too much like 09.00-17.00, Monday-Friday.
Darllenwyd (0).
Prynnwyd:
1. Charles Johnson & Hilary Jenkinson, English court hand, part I, text (1915).
2. A. G. Hughes & E. W. Parker (eds), Adventurers all (1947).
3. Joyce Gard, Woorroo (1961).
'English court hand' appeals to my inner archivist. It was published in two parts: part I, text; part II, plates. Part II is much less easily got hold of than Part I, and certainly not priced as an impulse purchase. 'Adventurers all' is an anthology of extracts and poems, including (pp. 3-25) extracts from the early chapters of Swallows and Amazons. And Woorroo was illustrated by Ronald Benham.
Keeping track of my reading and buying last year, http://www.librarything.com/topic/185654, was a useful and occasionally sobering exercise, so I'll think I'll do that again. Including perhaps an attempted justification for each purchase! But you know, I don't think I'll set myself reading targets this year. Trying to meet targets is too much like 09.00-17.00, Monday-Friday.
Darllenwyd (0).
Prynnwyd:
1. Charles Johnson & Hilary Jenkinson, English court hand, part I, text (1915).
2. A. G. Hughes & E. W. Parker (eds), Adventurers all (1947).
3. Joyce Gard, Woorroo (1961).
'English court hand' appeals to my inner archivist. It was published in two parts: part I, text; part II, plates. Part II is much less easily got hold of than Part I, and certainly not priced as an impulse purchase. 'Adventurers all' is an anthology of extracts and poems, including (pp. 3-25) extracts from the early chapters of Swallows and Amazons. And Woorroo was illustrated by Ronald Benham.
2Cynfelyn
Wythnos 2, 8-14 Ionawr.
Darllenwyd (0).
Prynnwyd:
4. Arthur Ransome, Le trésor de Peter Duck (1947).
5. Conor O Brien, From three yachts (The Mariners Library, no. 13, 1950).
6. Claire Kendall-Price (ed.), Arthur Ransome and the Japanese connections (1997).
7. John H. Edwards, Edward Baker Boulton : Australia's forgotten artist (2004).
Le trésor de Peter Duck is a really nice copy, much nicer and with with a much better d/w than the copy I already had.
I enjoyed reading Conor O Brien's Across three oceans, especially his time in the Southern Ocean / South Atlantic. I have high hopes for his From three yachts, which also fills a gap in my Mariners Library publisher's series.
The other two books are Arthur Ransome (AR) related. The first I expected to be a history of the Arthur Ransome Club of Japan, with some sort of explanation of Ransome's appeal in Japan. However, it turns out to be about Yone Noguchi, a poet, and Yoshio Markino, watercolourist and illustrator, two of Ransome's friends during his Bohemian days, and produced by The Arthur Ransome Society (TARS) to celebrate the tenth annivesary of the Arthur Ransome Club of Japan.
Edward Baker Boulton was AR's maternal grandfather, and almost certainly the reason AR gave Mrs Walker, the Swallows' mother, an Australian background.
Darllenwyd (0).
Prynnwyd:
4. Arthur Ransome, Le trésor de Peter Duck (1947).
5. Conor O Brien, From three yachts (The Mariners Library, no. 13, 1950).
6. Claire Kendall-Price (ed.), Arthur Ransome and the Japanese connections (1997).
7. John H. Edwards, Edward Baker Boulton : Australia's forgotten artist (2004).
Le trésor de Peter Duck is a really nice copy, much nicer and with with a much better d/w than the copy I already had.
I enjoyed reading Conor O Brien's Across three oceans, especially his time in the Southern Ocean / South Atlantic. I have high hopes for his From three yachts, which also fills a gap in my Mariners Library publisher's series.
The other two books are Arthur Ransome (AR) related. The first I expected to be a history of the Arthur Ransome Club of Japan, with some sort of explanation of Ransome's appeal in Japan. However, it turns out to be about Yone Noguchi, a poet, and Yoshio Markino, watercolourist and illustrator, two of Ransome's friends during his Bohemian days, and produced by The Arthur Ransome Society (TARS) to celebrate the tenth annivesary of the Arthur Ransome Club of Japan.
Edward Baker Boulton was AR's maternal grandfather, and almost certainly the reason AR gave Mrs Walker, the Swallows' mother, an Australian background.
3Cynfelyn
Wythnos 3, 15-21 Ionawr.
Read:
1. Charles Darwin, Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1929).
2. Margaret Ratcliffe, Sur les traces d'Arthur : Arthur Ransome à Paris (et ses environs) (2003).
Bought:
8. J. B. L. Howell (ed.), The Roger Altounyan memorial symposium (1989).
9. Margaret Ratcliffe, Sur les traces d'Arthur : Arthur Ransome à Paris (et ses environs) (2003).
10. Margaret Ratcliffe, Collecting our thoughts : essays reflecting Arthur Ransome's reading (2015).
Darwin was an easy read, said to have been written for his family, without any thought of publication.
Well, clearly, all three new books are Arthur Ransome related. Roger Altounyan was AR's inspiration for Roger Walker. In later life he was a physician and pharmacologist, discovering the properties of sodium cromoglycate (marketted as Intal) in reducing the symptoms of asthma, and developed the 'spinhaler' to deliver the drug deep into the lungs.
Read:
1. Charles Darwin, Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1929).
2. Margaret Ratcliffe, Sur les traces d'Arthur : Arthur Ransome à Paris (et ses environs) (2003).
Bought:
8. J. B. L. Howell (ed.), The Roger Altounyan memorial symposium (1989).
9. Margaret Ratcliffe, Sur les traces d'Arthur : Arthur Ransome à Paris (et ses environs) (2003).
10. Margaret Ratcliffe, Collecting our thoughts : essays reflecting Arthur Ransome's reading (2015).
Darwin was an easy read, said to have been written for his family, without any thought of publication.
Well, clearly, all three new books are Arthur Ransome related. Roger Altounyan was AR's inspiration for Roger Walker. In later life he was a physician and pharmacologist, discovering the properties of sodium cromoglycate (marketted as Intal) in reducing the symptoms of asthma, and developed the 'spinhaler' to deliver the drug deep into the lungs.
4Cynfelyn
Wythnos 4, 22-28 Ionawr.
Darllenwyd (0).
Prynnwyd (0).
Wythnos dawel iawn, heblaw sylweddoli does dim n dwbl mewn prynwyd!
Darllenwyd (0).
Prynnwyd (0).
Wythnos dawel iawn, heblaw sylweddoli does dim n dwbl mewn prynwyd!
5Cynfelyn
Wythnos 5, 29 Ionawr-4 Chwefror.
Darllenwyd:
3. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone (1997).
Prynnwyd:
11. Robin Maugham, Nomad (1947).
I was slightly disappointed with the Harry Potter. I had read Harri Potter a maen yr athronydd as my daughter's bedtime story a few years ago, and thought that the book-version of events around Norbert and detention worked better than the film version. Leaving aside the wholesale excision from the film of Mr Dursley's day at the office at the beginning of the book, Peeves the poltergeist etc. But re-reading it, I was struck but how summarily the book described some of the episodes that were richly portrayed in the film, including the fight with the troll in the girls' toilets, and Ron's game of wizard chess.
Nomad tells the story of Maugham's war-time and immediate post-war experiences in Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, including with John Bagot Glubb, Walter Francis Stirling and Ernest Altounyan.
Darllenwyd:
3. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone (1997).
Prynnwyd:
11. Robin Maugham, Nomad (1947).
I was slightly disappointed with the Harry Potter. I had read Harri Potter a maen yr athronydd as my daughter's bedtime story a few years ago, and thought that the book-version of events around Norbert and detention worked better than the film version. Leaving aside the wholesale excision from the film of Mr Dursley's day at the office at the beginning of the book, Peeves the poltergeist etc. But re-reading it, I was struck but how summarily the book described some of the episodes that were richly portrayed in the film, including the fight with the troll in the girls' toilets, and Ron's game of wizard chess.
Nomad tells the story of Maugham's war-time and immediate post-war experiences in Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, including with John Bagot Glubb, Walter Francis Stirling and Ernest Altounyan.
6Cynfelyn
Wythnos 6, 5-11 Chwefror.
Darllenwyd (0).
Prynwyd:
12. Alfred H. Hyatt, The charm of London (1920).
13. Arthur Mee, London : heart of the Empire and wonder of the world (The King's England series) (1947).
14. Anthony Rushworth-Lund, By way of the golden isles (1963).
15. Taqui Altounyan, Through the year in the Middle East (1982).
16. Helen Edmundson, Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons (2011).
Four of this week's purchases are Ransome-related, with the fifth collateral damage. Hyatt's The charm of London is illustrated by Yoshio Markino, one of Arthur Ransome's Japanese friends in London during his Bohemian days in the 1900's.
Arthur Mee's London was unfortunately bundled with the Hyatt as a single lot on eBay. However, I have a few other books in the King's / Queen's England series, so no harm done. I've always had a fondness for the big antiquarian county histories, and bought a fair number of VCH volumes when they had a stock-reduction sale ten or fifteen years ago. But these are big ticket items, and only appropriate for counties I am directly interested in. The King's England series was there for one-off holidays, impulse purchases etc. As indeed was the Highways and Byways series. None of this is catalogued yet.
Rushworth-Lund was the third owner of Ransome's yacht 'Lottie Blossom I', by then named 'Ragged Robin III'. By way of the golden isles is his account of a trip through the French canals to the Mediterranean and to Corsica and back. Taqui's book was written for schools, something like an extended National Geographic article. It's certainly not all sweetness and light and rose-tinted spectacles, but in no way prepares you for current events, only a generation later. Edmundson's Swallows and Amazons is AR's book adapted for the stage, with songs by Neil Hannon.
Darllenwyd (0).
Prynwyd:
12. Alfred H. Hyatt, The charm of London (1920).
13. Arthur Mee, London : heart of the Empire and wonder of the world (The King's England series) (1947).
14. Anthony Rushworth-Lund, By way of the golden isles (1963).
15. Taqui Altounyan, Through the year in the Middle East (1982).
16. Helen Edmundson, Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons (2011).
Four of this week's purchases are Ransome-related, with the fifth collateral damage. Hyatt's The charm of London is illustrated by Yoshio Markino, one of Arthur Ransome's Japanese friends in London during his Bohemian days in the 1900's.
Arthur Mee's London was unfortunately bundled with the Hyatt as a single lot on eBay. However, I have a few other books in the King's / Queen's England series, so no harm done. I've always had a fondness for the big antiquarian county histories, and bought a fair number of VCH volumes when they had a stock-reduction sale ten or fifteen years ago. But these are big ticket items, and only appropriate for counties I am directly interested in. The King's England series was there for one-off holidays, impulse purchases etc. As indeed was the Highways and Byways series. None of this is catalogued yet.
Rushworth-Lund was the third owner of Ransome's yacht 'Lottie Blossom I', by then named 'Ragged Robin III'. By way of the golden isles is his account of a trip through the French canals to the Mediterranean and to Corsica and back. Taqui's book was written for schools, something like an extended National Geographic article. It's certainly not all sweetness and light and rose-tinted spectacles, but in no way prepares you for current events, only a generation later. Edmundson's Swallows and Amazons is AR's book adapted for the stage, with songs by Neil Hannon.
7Cynfelyn
Wythnos 7, 12-18 Chwefror:
Darllenwyd:
4. Robin Maugham, Nomad (1947).
Prynwyd (0).
Derbynwyd:
17. Ceredigion 2015.
This year's issue of Ceredigion includes a couple of interesting articles, particularly on the archaeology of the charcoal industry in north Ceredigion.
Darllenwyd:
4. Robin Maugham, Nomad (1947).
Prynwyd (0).
Derbynwyd:
17. Ceredigion 2015.
This year's issue of Ceredigion includes a couple of interesting articles, particularly on the archaeology of the charcoal industry in north Ceredigion.
8Cynfelyn
Week 8, 19-25 February:
Read (0).
Bought (0).
18. Bertram C. A. Windle, Remains of the prehistoric age in England (The Antiquary's Books, 1909).
19. A. F. Leach, The schools of medieval England (The Antiquary's Books, 1916).
20. Rudyard Kipling, Just so stories for little children (1940).
21. George Robertson, An account of the discovery of Tahiti (Folio Society, 1973).
22. Brian Selznick, The invention of Hugo Cabret (2007).
23. Mary Hoffman, Stravaganza : city of stars (2004).
24. Jeff Kinney, Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days (2009).
First, I do like the publisher's series of The Antiquary's Books. Nuff said.
Then a visit to the university open day at Exeter. Mrs C and I tossed a coin as to who did the university with child #1, and who did the town with child #2. I won't say who won and who lost, but my expedition did two bookshops (Waterstones and Book-Cycle), two tea-shops (Patisserie Valerie and The Real Food Store), the cathedral and the museum.
Book-Cycle is a real gem; books over several floors, you can buy a maximum of three books a day, for whatever you consider a fair price. As for The Real Food Store, it's from the same mould as the Quarry Cafe in Machynlleth or the Mad Hatter Cafe in Street; good - very good - local organic food using the produce sold in the wholefood shop downstairs. I didn't notice if it was vegetarian. If it was it didn't wear the fact on its sleeve. And they had a bookcase of books from Book-Cycle.
Books brought away from Exeter: me (1), Mrs C (0), #1 (several prospectuses but no books), #2 (4). Nah, we won hands down.
Read (0).
Bought (0).
18. Bertram C. A. Windle, Remains of the prehistoric age in England (The Antiquary's Books, 1909).
19. A. F. Leach, The schools of medieval England (The Antiquary's Books, 1916).
20. Rudyard Kipling, Just so stories for little children (1940).
21. George Robertson, An account of the discovery of Tahiti (Folio Society, 1973).
22. Brian Selznick, The invention of Hugo Cabret (2007).
23. Mary Hoffman, Stravaganza : city of stars (2004).
24. Jeff Kinney, Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days (2009).
First, I do like the publisher's series of The Antiquary's Books. Nuff said.
Then a visit to the university open day at Exeter. Mrs C and I tossed a coin as to who did the university with child #1, and who did the town with child #2. I won't say who won and who lost, but my expedition did two bookshops (Waterstones and Book-Cycle), two tea-shops (Patisserie Valerie and The Real Food Store), the cathedral and the museum.
Book-Cycle is a real gem; books over several floors, you can buy a maximum of three books a day, for whatever you consider a fair price. As for The Real Food Store, it's from the same mould as the Quarry Cafe in Machynlleth or the Mad Hatter Cafe in Street; good - very good - local organic food using the produce sold in the wholefood shop downstairs. I didn't notice if it was vegetarian. If it was it didn't wear the fact on its sleeve. And they had a bookcase of books from Book-Cycle.
Books brought away from Exeter: me (1), Mrs C (0), #1 (several prospectuses but no books), #2 (4). Nah, we won hands down.
9Cynfelyn
Week 9, 26 Feb.-3 March:
Read (0). The current book, Conor O Brien's From three yachts is taking longer than I expected.
Bought:
25. Eliza Vaughan, The stream of time : sketches of village life in days gone by (1934).
26. Roger Wardale, Arthur Ransome's Lakeland (1st ed., 1986).
27. Roger Wardale, Arthur Ransome's East Anglia (2nd reprint, 1994).
28. Roger Wardale, In search of Swallows and Amazons : Arthur Ransome's Lakeland (1996).
28. Julia Jones, The salt-stained book (2011).
29. Margaret Ratcliffe, Genetic building blocks : the forebears of Arthur Ransome (Amazon Publications, 2012).
I joined LibraryThing on 29 Feb. 2012. This week therefore saw me celebrate my first Thingaversary. See http://www.librarything.com/topic/219415/.
Read (0). The current book, Conor O Brien's From three yachts is taking longer than I expected.
Bought:
25. Eliza Vaughan, The stream of time : sketches of village life in days gone by (1934).
26. Roger Wardale, Arthur Ransome's Lakeland (1st ed., 1986).
27. Roger Wardale, Arthur Ransome's East Anglia (2nd reprint, 1994).
28. Roger Wardale, In search of Swallows and Amazons : Arthur Ransome's Lakeland (1996).
28. Julia Jones, The salt-stained book (2011).
29. Margaret Ratcliffe, Genetic building blocks : the forebears of Arthur Ransome (Amazon Publications, 2012).
I joined LibraryThing on 29 Feb. 2012. This week therefore saw me celebrate my first Thingaversary. See http://www.librarything.com/topic/219415/.
