The weekend may be more than half over, but why not have a miscellany nonetheless? I was up in London yesterday, enjoying the spectacular royal wedding from the Southbank. I particularly loved the wonderful sermon from the minister – telling the world about the wonder of God’s love. Such a beautiful day for it all, too!
And here’s the book, blog post, and link…
1.) The link – I still freelance for OxfordWords, and wrote a really fun post about words in book titles that have changed in meaning: ‘What’s brave about Brave New World?‘
2.) The book – I didn’t love the only Salley Vickers novel I read, but I am drawn to The Librarian – not least for this stunning cover. Though it is a rip-off of Joan Bodger’s brilliant How The Heather Looks (google it!). I’d rather hoped it would be non-fic about a particularly influential librarian in Vickers’ reading life – somebody write that book! – but it could still be great anyway.
3.) The blog post – Hayley’s celebration of Virago at 40 is fab. And gives me a good excuse to post a picture of the beautiful tea cosy she made me while listening to ‘Tea or Books?’! Thanks Hayley :)
Glad you like the tea cosy!
LOVE THE TEA COSY. Would you be willing to share the source of the pattern? I haven’t knit anything in a year but that would inspire me to start up again!
The pattern is the Osaka tea cosy from a jamiesons pattern book that I got ages ago. Annoyingly the pattern isn’t on ravelry, and the format of the book is just bigger than a4 so it might be a challenge to photocopy.
Love the tea cosy! It’s so nice it could be a hat!
I love the cover of The Librarian, I would probably buy it just for that alone. It is quite similar to the other one — and also to my 1907 copy of The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett! Here is a link to the cover image if anyone is interested:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13422984-the-shuttle
lovely!
Nice article about how words have changed! I learned a few new meanings there.
I’m glad :) it was really fun to write!
That is a gorgeous cover – and cosy! And here I am sipping on a cold cuppa. Longing.
It’s lovely, isn’t it?
To be honest, I’d love to see a whole book about various influential librarians!! Such a vital role they play, and yet so undervalued. Maybe I’ll set about creating an anthology of essays on that point some day (write the book you want to read, as they say)… Hope you enjoyed the rest of your weekend! :)
Well, if you write it then I definitely want to read it!