mysteriouswineglass

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

$16.49 in Brooklyn yesterday

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sounds like they’re not offering a warranty for new purchases and will only be honoring the warranty for purchases before the cut off date for one year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Just in case you didn’t know, AeroGarden is closing down on New Years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The promised consort!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Entirely concur

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

You bet he knows how to use them!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Praise the sun

 
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

In the midst of It’s Okay to be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders after finishing Bob Woodward’s War the other day. Yes, both triggered by current events.

I also have about four books ongoing for my thesis: one on mercy in the Tudor century, the Acts of the Privy Council for Edward VI, and Dress at the Tudor Court by Maria Hayward.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I’m getting married to the most wonderful person I know on Monday. Today we got the marriage license!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Recently completed HFM Prescott’s The Man on a Donkey, a wonderful piece of historic fiction about the main actors (and a few fictional ones) of the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace—a rebellion against the religious changes of Henry VIII. Despite being a scholar of 16th century England I’m not at all interested in historical fiction, but this was quite a beautiful work set as a chronicle and tracing half a dozen characters from their youth until the final suppression of the Pilgrimage in summer 1537. Prescott does get straight to business so I can imagine it would be a bit difficult to place oneself without preexisting knowledge of late medieval/early modern England, but that thrown-in-the-deep-end attitude worked for me.

Edit: word is that Hilary Mantel was deeply influenced by Prescott, as was the playwright of A Man for All Seasons.

 
 

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