Ex Libris. From my bookshelves. And now read on……….

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I hereby declare this blog – open.

24th. January, 2018.

A simple idea. I am going to go through my shelves inspecting what I find on each shelf, a systematic browse, giving details of and possibly a scan of or from each book – an identifying description plus an impression of its contents but never a summary and rarely an evaluation.

I may – or may not – explore why I am doing this. Initially, I can see it is a combination of an urge to catalogue what I have and a whimsical wish to create swift, characterizing impression bites. The randomness of what and where on the shelves there is might be interesting and, hopefully, serendipitous.

At random  , the bottom shelf on the far right on my study, normally largely inaccessible behind a chair and plastic boxes of stored books:

  1. Bringing Schools Still Closer to Life, Soviet Booklet No. 44, December 1948 Soviet Booklets, London
  2. TEAPOT & CAMOBAP. Magazine for the Joint Services School for linguists, Bodmin  No. 6 December 17th. 1953
  3. Living English for the Arab World Revised Edition Book 1 W Stannard Allen and Ralph Cooke Longmans, 1961
  4. English Speech Book One  Cath McCallien and Peter Strevens, Longmans 1957
  5. English Speech Book Three  Cath McCallien and Peter Strevens, Longmans 1960
  6. Living in England, Brian Harrison, European Schoolbooks Hatier, Cheltenham UK, 1972
  7. The Press and Society fromCaxton to Northcliffe, G.A. Cranfield, Longman 1978
  8. Soviet Survey A Quarterly Review of Cultural Trends No. 26 October-December 1958, Congress for Cultural Freedom London & Paris editorWalter Z. Laquer
  9. Soviet Survey A Quarterly Review of Cultural Trends No. 32 April-June 1960 , Congress for Cultural Freedom London & Paris editorWalter Z. Laquer
  10. Soviet Survey A Quarterly Review of Cultural Trends No. 28 April June 1959 Congress for Cultural Freedom London & Paris editorWalter Z. Laquer
  11. Soviet Survey A Quarterly Review of Cultural Trends  No 31 January March 1960, Congress for Cultural Freedom London & Paris editorWalter Z. Laquer
  12. Soviet Survey A Quarterly Review of Cultural Trends No 33 July-September, 1960, Congress for Cultural Freedom London & Paris editorWalter Z. Laquer
  13. Soviet Survey A Quarterly Review of Cultural Trends  No 27 January-March 1959, Congress for Cultural Freedom London & Paris editorWalter Z. Laquer
  14. An English Reader Marion Elliott Peter Strutt Collins ELT 1984
  15. Punch Spring Special, April 14, 1976 London
  16. Teacher Trainers and Education SIG Newsletter  Issue 1/2002 London
  17. ELTAF (English Language Teachers’ Association Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Necker e.V.  Magazine Autumn/Winter 2017 Germany

18 August 2022 (!) after such a long interval the follwing quotatin demands to be inserted. T.S.Eliot “Words….

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings

3rd November 2022 14:30 Important at the moent that I write daily though the sooner I find ut how toput all the pieces together, the better. And I need, to, to consider appearance – plus drawing up a list or lists of who is toget thjis blow, or notification of it s existence. Focus on “Blek House” and why I am reading it, in effect studying it and by implication supporting the academic approach to literature. Tempted to repeat my old assmptions about what and how one reads, specifically literature, but want to avoid going down that well-worn path at the moment.. At this point, straight to the text and my reactions t it.

Hey, Charles. Get your finger out. Get a move on, He’s sure of his readershiop, isn’t he- beng self indulgent on and on about the foig.Heshows of with his bunches of three adjectives. ventually, we get to the new chapter, readers pointing in the crrect position. With the new chapter the tempop has increased somewhat, but it is a pretty noprmal treatment. Nothoing revolutionary.Ch<rles relaxes intoi a self-indulgent, sub-funny irony. 2nd rate stufdddf Iwonder how it was receivewd, month by month by – how many readers at x shillings a month. And the qestion I am in danger oif being led away from. Why shsoud a person spend the time to read this 900 paged novel His shortest

As I sit here typing the earth is revolving, one spin in 24 hours and at the same time lfis taking a great spin around the sun, taking 365 and a quarter days to do so. And at the same time our world is stretching out gewtting further awayfrom its neighb9ours.At the same time with attention an specific skills are reqired of me.