In this post I'd like to draw your attention to several podcast episodes that I've recently enjoyed listening to, all on the topic of autumn.
Autumn listening tips
Book review: โFolk Witchcraftโ by Roger J. Horne
I first read this book a few years ago, in the days leading up to Halloween. I remember searching online for books to get me in the holiday mood, and among all the shiny, glossy titles (and there are so many!), there was this one that looked quite different โ a small, unassuming volume, with …
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Two books of yearning and desire
Books reviewed: Hal Porter, The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony,ย Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1984 Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2003 I have never read or seen any of Hal Porter's plays. Even on Amazon they seem difficult to find. Were it not for his 1977 autobiography The Watcher on the …
Unboxing the ‘Diurnale Romanum’
In this post I will present the latest addition to my Latin library, which is a single-volume edition of the 1962 Diurnale Romanum breviary. The post can be read as an addendum to โLearn Latin using contemporary resourcesโ or as a sample review related to โLetโs talk about books and literatureโ article found elsewhere on …
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