A week or two ago I mentioned reading Pride and Prejudice on Project Gutenberg. The particular edition that was up on that site had adorable illustrations and illuminated capitals done by an artist named Hugh Thomson. I went looking and discovered that Thomson had illustrated several other books, including one called Highways and Byways in [...]
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Illustrations from Pride and Prejudice
No power this morning for a bit. No power yesterday afternoon. We are having a lot of rain, and random wind, and tornadoes in the area. In between times everything is green and light, but not sunny. I found a gem on Project Gutenberg, an illustrated version of Pride and Prejudice. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1342/pg1342-images.html It was published [...]
August! Time flies. People don’t — usually
I didn’t know that surfing was an Olympic sport until I saw a story with a fantastic picture. Surfing was included in the Olympics for the first time in Japan in 2020, and the competition this year is taking place in French Polynesia. It is a judged sport, as opposed to racing or throwing things [...]
Vacation book reviews, continued…
I read three books by Elizabeth Daly, a murder mystery writer from the 1940’s. Her setting is New York City around World War II. She is not writing about bustling immigrants but about gentry, decaying or otherwise, and a bit of society life. The books are described as English country house, only set in New [...]
… call me and bid me come to you …
‘In hora mortis meae voca me, et iube me venire ad te’ (at the hour of my death, call me and bid me come to you). This is the prayer of Christian hope.” Pope Saint John Paul II, Letter to the Elderly, 1999 I read a book weeks ago, that starts with a death bed. [...]
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