After having watched The King’s Speech at the cinema (like about a gazilion other people), I found myself intrigued by the story of George VI, and wanted to learn more. I picked up George VI by Sarah Bradford at Amazon, and forgot all about it, until I cleaned out my bookshelves. I rather regret not reading it earlier,… Continue reading Book review: George VI
Category: The Library
Video: Men of Jane Austen period drama
Jane Austen seems to be a girl thing – to a large degree. The books are one thing, but the casting in some of the dramatizations has been fairly good as well. Below is a fan video someone made of the Men of Jane Austen.
Book Review: The best of FoxTrot
It seemed to be a bit of a stretch of serious books, so it was time to interject it with something less strenuous. Let’s go to the comic book section. Friday’s read is The Best of Foxtrot If you’re unfamiliar with FoxTrot – the comics cover a regular, stereotypical family and their day-to-day life. The mother… Continue reading Book Review: The best of FoxTrot
Rewatching Bones Season 2
Bones season 2 is partially about Brennan’s relationship with her recently discovered father, and Brennan and Booth’s relationship. Unlike most of the other seasons, this only has 21 episodes. One was meant to air, but was held back due to the Virginia Tech shootings, as the episode dealt with finding human remains on the college… Continue reading Rewatching Bones Season 2
Video: 100 years of style
This one gives a pretty fantastic overview over the London East End fashion, dancing and music styles of the last 100 years.
Book review: Aristocrats
It does sort of go together with Crown & Country, that I read last week – Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence – Britain’s Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present seems to also, like the aforementioned book, be tied to the British history. In one way, it is written in a similar manner. It describes the… Continue reading Book review: Aristocrats
Book review: Crown & Country
My latest read is Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy. (Excellent for reading while biking on a spin bike, by the way). The book goes from the time of the Roman times and its unification to current times. It depicts the different rulers of the country, and the struggles they (and the… Continue reading Book review: Crown & Country
Weeding a library
As a librarian, from time to time, it is all about weeding the library. My lecturer would call it part of the collection management. It is essential, unless you have oodles of space. Books go out of fashion. (A number of management books that are immensely popular for a couple of years or so, and… Continue reading Weeding a library
Video: How to organize your bookshelves
I am rather fascinated by this method of organizing books. I have to admit that when I sorted my books… I went with the true and tried… the alphabet after much deliberation. I do like sorting the books by color, I also want to find the books again.