#Stephen Prothero

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Currently reading American Jesus by Stephen Prothero. Mentally filing it in the same cabinet as Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne. I sure do love a good book about American Christianity. Shoutout to the previous owner for underlining the exact same shit i would've underlined. Cutest part of shopping only at secondhand bookstores is that the annotations make me feel like I have a buddy.

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2025 Book Bingo!!

My dearest @batmanisagatewaydrug issued this challenge and here I am listing the books I intend to read in 2025! Under a read more because I'm not a monster

Literary Fiction: Our Share of Night (2019) by Mariana Enríquez, trans. Megan McDowell

Short Story Collection: Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy (1990), edited by Ellen Datlow

A Sequel: Don’t Fear The Reaper (2023) by Stephen Graham Jones

Childhood Favorite: When You Reach Me (2009) by Rebecca Stead

20th Century Speculative Fiction: The Time of the Ghost (1981) by Diana Wynne Jones

Fantasy: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (2023) by Moniquill Blackgoose

Published Before 1950: Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë

Independent Publisher: Creatures of Passage (2022) by Morowa Yejidé, published by Akashic Books

Graphic Novel/Comic Book/Manga: Something is Killing the Children Book One (2021), by James Tynion IV, art by Werther Dell’Edera

Animal on the Cover: Coyote Rage (2019) by Owl Goingback

Set in a Country You Have Never Visited: Let the Right One In (2004) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, trans. Ebba Segerberg

Science Fiction: Finna (2020) by Nino Cipri

2025 Debut Author: Needy Little Things (2025) by Channelle Desamours

Memoir: Camgirl (2019) by Isa Mazzei

Read a Zine, Make a Zine: Leaving this one blank for now! If anyone has any zine recommendations I'd love to hear them!

Essay Collection: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (2023), edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith

2024 Award Winner: Linghun (2023) by Ai Jiang, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Nonfiction: Learn Something New: Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids (2012) by Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero

Social Justice & Activism: Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019) by Sabrina Strings

Romance Novel: Such Sharp Teeth (2022) By Rachel Harrison

Read and Make a Recipe: The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco (2002), by Allen Rucker, David Chase, and Michele Scicolone

Horror: SOUR CANDY (2015) by Kealan Patrick Burke

Published in the Aughts: Abandon (2009) by Blake Crouch

Historical Fiction: The Hacienda (2022) by Isabel Cañas

Bookseller or Librarian Recommendation: Leaving this one blank for now as well! If any booksellers or librarians want to recommend me a book so I don't have to talk to someone in real life. I'd love that.

[lostangeles]

Last year, W. W. Norton & Company contacted me to feature one of my images in their upcoming college textbook "Religion Matters" by Stephen Prothero. Now, in September 2024, here we are on page 235! 😭😭

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Hugh Laurie’s 10 Best Movies & TV Shows, Ranked

By Ben Protheroe

Published Feb 15, 2024

Summary

Hugh Laurie's comedic sensibilities shine through in his deadpan expressions and impeccable timing, making him a comedic powerhouse.

Laurie's natural charisma allows him to play affable characters or charming rogues in dramatic roles, showcasing his versatility as an actor.

Laurie's most impressive skill is his ability to completely transform himself, abandoning his famous traits and disappearing into unexpected roles.

Hugh Laurie first established himself as a comedy actor, but he has also shown that he is a powerhouse performer in dramatic movies and TV shows. Laurie first rose to prominence alongside Stephen Fry, the other half of his popular double act. The duo starred in TV shows and movies together before developing successful careers on their own. Fry has become an author and a TV presenter as well as an actor, while Laurie has added more dramatic roles to his repertoire. Laurie is mostly known for his TV shows, but he has made some brilliant movies as well.

Hugh Laurie has acute comedic sensibilities, especially when playing the straight man. His deadpan expressions and trademark comic incredulity are among his best assets. However, he is also articulate and intelligent enough to make unusually verbose punch lines land without missing a beat. Laurie uses his natural charisma in dramatic roles to play a number of affable characters or charming rogues. What's perhaps most impressive about Laurie's acting skills is that he can abandon all of his most famous traits and disappear into unexpected roles.

10Peter's Friends (1992)

Roger Anderson

Peter's Friends is a somewhat forgotten comedy directed by Kenneth Branagh. Stephen Fry is the titular Peter, a man drifting through life who inherits a luxurious countryside manor and invites all of his old college friends back together for a New Year's Eve celebration. The old friends assemble from all over the globe, and their bright and shiny facades begin to crumble. Hugh Laurie plays Roger, a once-promising musician who sold out a long time ago to write advertising jingles. He's just one in a cast full of eccentrics, all of whom have a tenuous grip on reality.

9All The Light We Cannot See (2023)

Etienne LeBlanc

Based on the novel by Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See follows the lives of two teenagers caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. Marie-Laure is a blind French who uses her radio to broadcast messages of hope and resistance, and Werner Pfennig is a German soldier sympathetic to her cause but tasked with tracking her down. Hugh Laurie shines as Marie-Laure's great-uncle, a man with PTSD from the First World War who fights to overcome his condition to protect his family. All the Light We Cannot See delivers a powerful, uplifting message.

8Arthur Christmas (2011)

Steven Claus

Arthur Christmas is a festive adventure with a lot of heart and a lot of humor. Arthur is the son of Santa Claus, but he is forced to take on a delivery of his own after he discovers that one child didn't get their Christmas present. Hugh Laurie plays Steven, Arthur's business-minded older brother who wants to run Santa's workshop like a delivery warehouse or a military base. Arthur Christmas has all the charm usually associated with Aardman Animations, the studio most famous for claymation projects like Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit.

7Jeeves & Wooster (1990-1993)

Bertie Wooster

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's TV adaptation crystallized two classic comic characters for an entire generation.

P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories have been extremely popular in Britain for decades, and Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's TV adaptation crystallized two classic comic characters for an entire generation. Hugh Laurie plays Bertie Wooster, a wealthy young man who is affable and optimistic but somewhat thick. Stephen Fry plays Jeeves, his intelligent valet with a sardonic wit. As Bertie tangles himself up in problem after problem, it's often down to Jeeves to extricate him from his troubles as painlessly as possible. Jeeves aims a couple of barbs at his employer, but he makes sure they sail over Bertie's head.

6The Night Manager (2016)

Richard Roper

The Night Manager pairs Hugh Laurie with Tom Hiddleston and Olivia Colman, and all three actors deliver brilliant performances. Laurie plays Richard Roper, an amoral, psychopathic arms dealer who is under investigation by the British Foreign Office. Hiddleston plays a hotelier in Cairo who is enlisted to infiltrate his inner circle. Based on the novel of the same name by John le Carré, The Night Manager is a suspenseful thrill ride with an ordinary man placed in extremely deadly situations. Hugh Laurie's performance as the villainous Roper is a great showcase for his talents as a dramatic actor.

5A Bit Of Fry & Laurie (1989-1995)

Various characters

Hugh Laurie's first TV show alongside his comedy partner Stephen Fry was the BBC sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Their deadpan British wit combines with absurdist Pythonesque sketches where Laurie typically plays the sarcastic straight man. Fry and Laurie's sketches often poke fun at the rigidity of British society by introducing elements of the surreal, and they frequently use innuendo and puns to spin ordinary situations into farce. A Bit of Fry and Laurie also gave Hugh Laurie a platform to demonstrate his talents as a musician with plenty of comedy songs on guitar or piano.

4Sense & Sensibility (1995)

Mr. Palmer

Sense and Sensibility is one of the best Jane Austen movie adaptations, starring and adapted by Emma Thompson. She plays Elinor Dashwood, one of three sisters who find themselves in dire financial straits and plot to find wealthy men to marry. Despite the jeopardy of this premise, Thompson's script captures Austen's dry wit and upbeat tone. Hugh Laurie plays a supporting role as Mr. Palmer, a comfortable member of high society whose privilege allows him to freely dispense erudite one-liners without needing to fear the repercussions. Laurie helps revitalize Austen's humor for the modern era.

3Veep (2012-2019)

Tom James

Laurie is one of very few actors in the show who can go toe-to-toe with Louis-Dreyfus in full comedic flow.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the star of Veep as the cynically ambitious career politician Selina Meyer, but she has an outstanding supporting cast to back her up. Veep's best seasons come after the show takes some time to assemble its funniest characters. Hugh Laurie plays Tom James, the charismatic senator who sucks all the attention away from Selina on the campaign trial, even though he is brought in as her running mate. Laurie is one of very few actors in the show who can go toe-to-toe with Louis-Dreyfus in full comedic flow.

2Blackadder (1983-1989)

Prince Ludwig the Indestructible, Prince George, Lt. The Hon. George Colthurst St. Barleigh, other minor characters

The BBC historical sitcom Blackadder hops to a new time period each season, starting in the Middle Ages and ending in the trenches of the First World War. Hugh Laurie plays a different character in each season, starting with one of the show's most cunning villains, Prince Ludwig the Indestructible, in season 2. His most memorable performances come after he joins the main cast as the upper-class twit, George. Prince George and Lieutenant George are both stupid but boundlessly optimistic, and they consistently rub Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder the wrong way.

1House (2004-2012)

Dr. Gregory House

House gave Hugh Laurie his most famous role, and he took it with both hands. The character of Gregory House is based on Sherlock Holmes. He has a genius-level intellect and remarkable powers of deduction, but he's misanthropic and he struggles with substance abuse. House's best episodes delve into obscure medical mysteries, as House and his team work around the clock to diagnose their patient. House's methods are unethical, and he often treats patients like puzzles rather than human beings, but his results speak for themselves. 20 years on, House is still an unbeatable medical drama.

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Getting to know us.

Thank you @shipsnsails !

Last Song: random youtube playlists tbh

Favorite Color: all shades of red, all shades of pink

Last Book: out of curiousty I start some of Stephen Prothero's books. Previously did not pay much attention to religious studies

Last movie: rewatched Only Lover Left Alive (2013)

Last TV show: besides Once Upon a Time, I also rewatched Miss Sherlock (2018)

Sweet/spicy/savory: Savory

Last Thing I googled: binding cardboard wholesale…. for my semester project..

Current obsession: OUAT. A lot AUs ideas. Also, for the first time in a while I want to draw for myself, but I don't have much free time, so I just create pictures and stories in my head all day ha ha

Looking forward to: ✨break✨

Tagging: @daisyyyy @regina-swanqueen

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Tagged by @drjohnhwatson to list 9 books I plan on reading this year (thank u bby sorry I saw this so late school is killing me psychically) :)) Now I don't typically prepick books to read but all of these are in my stack to tackle once I graduate lol

1. Isle of Emberdark from Brandon Sanderson (already preordered but it comes out later this yr)

2. O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

3. reread the Old Kingdom Series from Garth Nix (its been a minute and i wanna refresh)

4. Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America by Stephen Prothero

5. Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk (i think - its one of his newer novels)

6. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Madison Reyes and Spencer Henry

7. All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell

8. Start the Discworld series (any)

9. either reread Dracula or maybe tackle God's Demons by Wayne Barlowe

im tagging ... @meinenaffenhosen @horrocious and maybe @theflowermaker if they wanna do it too :))

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Thoughts on V for Vendetta [REWATCH]

Just my raw thoughts not a review or anything

The film adaptation of the seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore is not as good as it’s source material (shocker) but it’s a bombastic, creative and stylish action movie that still gets to keep a lot of the surface level things that made V for Vendetta so interesting.

In very broad strokes the story follows a young woman who upon meeting a terrorist on a night out while he prepares to strike at their totalitarian government is accidentally dropped into the conflict to function as our POV of the situation. The terrorist who’s name is V is a revolutionary man of the people and interestingly obsessed with the Gunpowder Plot who serves as the driving force of the story as he little by little takes down the totalitarian government through a year showing Evey (the young woman mentioned previously) all the faults of it. The story is anarchistic in nature but the movie makes it a little more muddy and centers it more on the “People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments, the government should be afraid of it’s people” philosophy that V so elegantly speaks of.

The film has some issues making it’s own story work but it shines in the performances and the action sequences, for the first Hugo Weaving is giving the performance of a lifetime entirely through physical acting and his voice giving a lot of life and humanity to a character that has no face at all and whose mask is decidedly stuck in a pacific emotion that he just doesn’t show much of. On the other side of the coin Natalie Portman also gives an incredibly compelling performance showing the emotional journey of Evey as she goes from a scared young woman who follows orders into a hardened defying fighter who isn’t afraid of even her own mortality through events that transpire in the later half of the movie. A lot of smaller roles are also outstanding with the late great John Hurt doing a terrific job as the dictator Sutler, Roger Allan also does a fantastic job as Lewis Prothero the propaganda king and celebrity opinion new anchor (what we now call a Tucker Carlson) and Stephen Fry closes out the performances I wanna single out bringing a lot of warmth and kindness as Deitrich. As for the action sequences we have a few but the main popular standout is the slow mo knife sequence at the end of the film which makes it pretty obvious that director James McTeigue has worked most of his career with the Wachowskis as your can see their fingerprints all over the cinematography as well as how the script (which they wrote) weaves into them to created pure catarsis when the time comes and we get incredible one liners with them like the ever iconic “Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea. And ideas are bulletproof” which is one of the many many great lines thrown through the movie, another being “A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.” as well as propelling into the cultural zeitgeist “Remember remember, the 5th of November'' along with the now incredibly iconic mask of Guy Fawkes which has been sadly co-opted by a bunch of dorks online who wanna try to look edgy and cool.

V for Vendetta is a great time and a fantastic movie, just not the greatest adaptation, while I do recommend watching it I also recommend reading the original graphic novel and vice versa as the movie is still exhilarating and incredibly well made deserving a spot in history as some of the most memorable iconography ever made.

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

In this context I think it's interesting to note some major oversights in the research process behind the movie:

(Thank you to @chansaw for finding this script!)

Namely, they only use devotional and apologetical sources (counting New Atheism here lmao), simulation theory stuff, and some secular nonfiction books on the history of Mormonism. No comparative religion, no mystical theology, no academic religious studies. That explains some of the obvious holes in both Reed's and Barnes's arguments (why do they both take it as a given that some of these alleged similarities between Jesus and other gods are even accurate?), but on another level it actually strengthens the movie because 1. it shows just how easy it is to poke holes in this "deboonker" bullshit even if you don't know that parts of it are just objectively wrong and 2. there's a shaky, desperate quality to the arguments that works really well. Women with 25% of the facts in heated debate with man with 5% of the facts who thinks he has 100% of the facts because he's old, male, and English.

Off the top of my head, Reed would have benefited from familiarity with R.C. Zaehner, Jason Ananda Josephson, Wendy Doniger, Mary Daly, and good old Friedrich Engels. Barnes would have benefited from familiarity with William James, Evelyn Underhill, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Stephen Prothero, also Zaehner for different reasons, and Friedrich Schleiermacher. This is without even getting too deeply into newer and more specialized scholarship.

I'm not trapped with him, he's trapped with me.

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God the Bestseller

BOOK REVIEWGod the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Timeby Stephen Prothero 2023 About the AuthorStephen Prothero is the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One and a professor of religion at Boston University. His work has been featured on the cover of TIME magazine, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,…

[pussyluvr2000]

From American Jesus by Stephen Prothero

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Spiritual Fluidity

I was very interested when I learned that the book club of my area’s interfaith organization was reading When One Religion Isn’t Enough: the Lives of Spiritually Fluid People by Duane R. Bidwell. I hadn’t heard of this book, even though it was published in 2018. But I was intrigued because in my book, The INTRAfaith Conversation, I have a chapter entitled “New Voices.” And one of those voices is…

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Womanist theologians were particularly wary of the flirtation of some radical feminist theologians with goddess worship. Virtually all womanist theologians had grown up in the black church, and moving "beyond Christolatry," as [Mary] Daly put it, was to them unthinkable. Sojourner Truth, the ex-slave and abolitionist orator, often began her lectures by invoking Jesus, whom she described as "a friend, standing between me and God, through whom, love flowed as from a fountain." Womanist theologians invoked Jesus too and, like Truth, they saw him as both a personal Savior and a political Messiah, an incarnation of God who came into the world to save individuals from sin and deliver his chosen people from captivity.

Stephen Prothero, American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (2003)

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i would download tiktok if i knew who to follow just for content like this

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2021 in books

Here is my 2021 reading wrap-up! The titles in italics are the ones I’m emphasizing as recommendations.

january:

1. “Christmas Days” by Jeanette Winterson

2. “Antigone” by Sophocles, translated by our Lord and Savior, Anne Carson

3. “The Undiscovered Islands” by Malachy Tallack

4. “The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts” by Baba Ifa Karade

5. “Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg” edited by Corey Lang Brettschneider

6. “The Soul of an Octopus” by Sy Montgomery

7. “World of Wonders” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

8. “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara

9. “Magickal Mermaids” by Flavia Kate Peters

february:

1. “Dear Juliet” edited by the Juliet Club

2. “Memorias de mis putas tristes” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

3. “Midnight Sun” by Stephenie Meyer

4. “Infinite Country” by Patricia Engel (DNF)

5. “Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery 

6. “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer (re-read)

7. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer (re-read)

8. “Entangled Life” by Merlin Sheldrake

march:

1. “The Dumb House” by John Burnside (TW)

2. “Hope Never Dies” by Andrew Shaffer

april:

1. “150 Glimpses of the Beatles” by Craig Brown

2. “The Passion” by Jeanette Winterson

3. “The Satanic Bible” by Anton Szandor LaVey

4. “A Coney Island of the Mind” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

5. “The Final Revival of Opal and Nev” by Dawnie Walton

6. “Leave the World Behind” by Rumaan Alann

may:

1. “The Invention of a Murder” by Judith Flanders

2. “A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by Tom Standage

3. “Ghost Wall” by Sarah Moss

4. “God is Not One” by Stephen R. Prothero (DNF)

5. “Written on the Body” by Jeanette Winterson

6. “Loki: Agent of Asgard″ by Al Ewing (re-read)

7. “Loki: Agent of Asgard #2″ by Al Ewing (re-read)

8. “Poesia de Amor” by Pablo Neruda

9. “Modern Greek Poetry” edited by Kimon Friar

10. “Of Blood and Magic” by Shayne Leighton

11. “In Focus Reiki: Your Personal Guide” by Des Hynes

12. “Beneath the Moon” by Yoshi Yoshitani

13. “Tales of a Korean Grandmother” by Frances Carpenter

14. “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera

15. “Mercy, Unbound” by Kim Antieau

june:

1. “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life” by William Finnegan

2. “The Falling in Love Montage” by Ciara Smyth

3. “Butterflies of North America” by Jeffrey Glassberg

4. “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo

5. “King John” by William Shakespeare

6. “Girl Crushed” by Katie Heaney

july:

1. “The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi

2. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer

3. “Wonderful Tonight” by Pattie Boyd

4. “An Oresteia” by Anne Carson

august: 

1. “Crazy Brave” by Joy Harjo 

september:

1. “The Carrying” by Ada Limón

2. “A Queer History of the United States” by Michael Bronski

3. “The Maidens” by Alex Michaelides

4. “The Black Arts” by Richard Cavendish

5. “Soiled Doves” by Anne Seagraves

october: 

1. “A Dowry of Blood” by S.T. Gibson

2. “Books of Blood” by Clive Barker

3. “We Are Not From Here” by Jenny Torres Sanchez

4. “Playing in the Dark” by Toni Morrison

5. “Deep and Dark and Dangerous” by Mary Downing Hahn (Re-Read)

november:

1. “Collected Poems” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

2. “Green Witchcraft” by Paige Vanderbeck

3. “Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors” by Babette Perrone et al.

4. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky (Re-Read)

5. “I’ll Take You There” by Greg Not (DNF)

6. “Upstairs Girls” by Michael Rutter

7. “Fingersmith” by Sarah Waters (DNF)

8. “Once Upon a Quinceanera” by Julia Alvarez

9. “Sabrina and Corina: Stories” by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

10. “The People We Keep” by Allison Larkin

11. “Besom, Stang, Sword” by Christopher Orapello

12. “Ute Tales” by Anne M. Smith

13. “The Age of Entitlement” by Christopher Caldwell (DNF)

14. “The History of Torture” by Brian Innes

15. “Kaleidoscope” by Brian Selznick

december:

1. “Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution” by Mark Elsner

2. “A Touch of Darkness” by Scarlett St. Clair

3. “David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music” by Darryl W. Bullock

4. “Ordinary Girls” by Jaquira Díaz

5. “Postcolonial Love Poem” by Natalie Diaz

6. “Gods Behaving Badly” by Marie Phillips

7. “Future Home of the Living God” by Louise Erdrich

8. “Winter” by Ali Smith (DNF)

9. “The Poet X” by Elizabeth Acevedo

Here’s to another year of reading! DM if you’d like more personalized reading recommendations. 

-bia

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Tuesday 25 July 1837

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12 10

fine morning – Hinton here soon after 8 – A- told him Hirst of moor Miers had not a vote – But H- wanted so particularly to see me, that I got up (my cold very bad) and was dressed and downstairs in 35 minutes at 9 ¼ - Haley an Irishman working here under Mawson has a vote for the borough – to get it if possible – said I would do what I could – Hinton to see him 1st – just sitting down to breakfast when Shaw, one of S- the plasterer came with Mr. Harper’s order for £50 – gave him a check no.147 for the money – then had Hinton again – sent him to Empsall the butcher, and Holt the engineer and to see if James Holt had a vote for the borough –A- came and sat by me at breakfast at 10 and breakfast and looking her rough copy of letter to Mr. Gray till after 11 when Mr. Washington came – shewed him Kemps’ map of the borough – spirited him up to publish a [better] – he thought it could be afforded at about 7/6 – I said he might put it at 8/. and get it up nicely, and it would pay very well – thought he ought to give the profits to his wife for a journey to Blackpool or somewhere  or, when he said his daughters’ education had cost him £13 last ½ year (she wishes to be a governess) to give the profits to her education – the map to be published in 2 months from this time – SW- thinks  he could manage it – out at 12 – with Mr. Gray planning for the east tower to come forward 3 yards beyond the present kitchen, whenever it (the tower) should be built – a little while with A- till after 1 then out again – with Robert and co. - had Stephen Mallinson the carpenter who had begun pulling down Little marsh – he to have the carpenters’ work, and someone else (perhaps Schofield – probably S-) the joiners’ work – SM- to see Blythe about it and sign the contract – carts to go for old wood to Little Marsh – Zebedee went this afternoon – John Bottomley to go tomorrow – about 4, went down to the hagstack – all the hay just brought to it – saw Mawson – mentioned Haley and asked M- to do what he could to get his vote – then sauntered down to the meer, and returned by the hay-barn, and Godley cottage to the top of the bank to see if I could put the coal-staith in Southowram and bring out the Incline in John Bottomleys land – then to Matthew Booths’ – he and his wife very civil – he shewed me a printed circular he had had from Mr. Dyson (son of Mr. Furniss D-) chairman of Mr. Wortley’s committee – Matthew had told and would tell nobody but me – but he should go at 9 am tomorrow and vote for Protheroe and Worltey – I told him we were much obliged – he would do us no good – but he would do us no harm – in returning met Greenwood at his field gate (field above the wood) [?] his hay – stood talking some time – mentioned my intention of building 2 ten-or 12 pounds houses at the top of the hotel top court – for blacksmith and butcher – G- still harps upon my building shops to let for £60 a year each for £300 a piece – I said it was impossible – not less than £400 each would do – G- said I should lose some thousands by the hotel – I had better have taken £9000 for it, and never built the hotel – no! I did not think – G- advised my selling the land in building lots – no! I would not do that – I might perhaps let on building leases; but I had not quite determined – G- said the corner next was worth £5 per yard – yes! said I, I know that, and there is more I would not sell for less – G- sorry the ground remained so long without paying me anything – well! said I you used to talk of a market – yes! said G- ‘but there must be an act of parliament for it – and I think a market would stand very well in the timber yard (Sheep croft) – oh! oh! thought I but said nothing more than yes! perhaps it might, but I meant merely the cattle market – G- reminded me that the wall between the timber yard and his land, belonged to him –I said I was not aware of it, but I did not mind which of us it belonged to – Hinton had been waiting of me a little farther on in the road – He said Mr. Protheroe would be at the head of the poll – splits must be for Wortley and Protheroe – had seen Empsall and Holt (James H- had no vote for the borough) and each would give a split – I to get Haley if possible – home at 6 just as A- returned from Cliff hill – Had Gledhill Southowram collector of taxes – paid him poor and highways – mentioned the Incline etc. and that I had been asked to put it in Southowram if I could – no time to be lost – if the town wished it, a deputation had best write an [?], and we would see what could be done – Gledhill much obliged for my wish to oblige the town if I could – he would speak to Mr. Waddington and Mr. Thwaite who would probably call on me tomorrow morning – I said I intended beginning on the 1st of August – then had Haley – an Irishman from the country of Gligo but had married and Englishwoman and lived 20 years in England – a Roman catholic – he was very well inclined to vote for me – ‘would as soon oblige me as anyone – or sooner – but I durst not’ – why? ‘For fear of the public’ the priest had not absolutely asked him for his vote – nor anybody else – it seemed he had not promised it – but they had called and told his wife he was to vote for Protheroe and Wood – I told him to go to Hinton tonight at the Orange tree in Winding lane – which he said he would do but I have no hope of his vote – went into the cellar for port – dinner at 7 ½ - read the paper while Mr. Gray had coffee – came upstairs at 9 ½ - wrote the whole of yesterday and today (A- with me a little while) till 11 5 – very fine day – F60° at 10 ½ pm – my cold very bad but better than last night – A- would like a tour on horseback – mentioned Whalley

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Audio Books/Audible Collection

Updated 11/01/2021

On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed Acquired on October 26, 2021

Peril Bob Woodward, Robert Costa Acquired on September 22, 2021

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Acquired on August 24, 2021

Naturalist Edward O. Wilson Acquired on August 10, 2021

The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith Acquired on August 10, 2021

Yearbook Seth Rogen Acquired on June 21, 2021

Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Acquired on June 15, 2021

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer Acquired on April 21, 2021

Little Women Louisa May Alcott Acquired on April 21, 2021

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Acquired on April 21, 2021

This Is the Fire Don Lemon Acquired on March 16, 2021

A Promised Land Barack Obama Acquired on February 23, 2021

The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka, Susan Bernofsky - translator Acquired on February 8, 2021

My Own Words Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams Acquired on October 22, 2020

The Zealot and the Emancipator H. W. Brands Acquired on October 21, 2020

Rage Bob Woodward Acquired on September 14, 2020

Great Books David Denby Acquired on August 5, 2020

The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X, Alex Haley Acquired on July 3, 2020

Talking to Strangers Malcolm Gladwell

God Is Not One Stephen Prothero Acquired on July 3, 2020

The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in) Colson Whitehead Acquired on June 22, 2020

The Great War and Modern Memory Paul Fussell Acquired on June 1, 2020

With the Old Breed E. B. Sledge Acquired on June 1, 2020

The Hunger Games: Special Edition Suzanne Collins Acquired on May 15, 202

The Return of the King J. R. R. Tolkien Acquired on May 15, 2020

The Two Towers J. R. R. Tolkien Acquired on May 15, 2020

The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien Acquired on May 15, 2020

Beneath a Scarlet Sky Mark Sullivan Borrowed on January 15, 2020

Warlight Michael Ondaatje Acquired on December 10, 2019

Surprised by Joy C. S. Lewis Acquired on November 26, 2019

The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin Acquired on October 31, 2019 More actions

The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Acquired on September 30, 2019

In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez Acquired on September 30, 2019

The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay Acquired on September 30, 2019

The Secrets We Kept Lara Prescott Acquired on September 30, 2019

Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Acquired on September 19, 2019

The Strenuous Life Ryan Swanson Acquired on August 28, 2019

Frankenstein Mary Shelley Acquired on June 17, 2019

If Beale Street Could Talk James Baldwin Acquired on June 6, 2019

A Mind of Her Own Paula McLain Acquired on March 7, 2019

The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Acquired on March 7, 2019

Crime and Punishment (Recorded Books Edition) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett - translator Acquired on March 7, 2019

East of Eden John Steinbeck Acquired on January 22, 2019

Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Acquired on January 14, 2019

Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Acquired on November 27, 2018

Becoming Michelle Obama Acquired on November 27, 2018

Day 13: Heart Center Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 15: Soul Nourishment Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 17: Vital Rest Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 16: You're In Control Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 11: Inner Peace Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 12: Reflection Walk Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 10: In Your Hands Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 8: Fulfilled and Fearless Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 1: Settling Down Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 7: Inner Landscape Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 3: All About Intention Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Day 2: Eyes Open Aaptiv Acquired on October 3, 2018

Fear Bob Woodward Acquired on September 21, 2018

Pride and Prejudice (AmazonClassics Edition) Jane Austen Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 20: Awaken the Senses Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 19: A Fire Inside Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 18: Mantra Moments Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 14: Bated Breath Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 9: Into The Deep Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 6: Sweet Escape Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 5: Point of Focus Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

Day 4: New Breath Aaptiv Acquired on August 20, 2018

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Acquired on August 20, 2018

Night Elie Wiesel Acquired on August 20, 2018

Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit Acquired on August 20, 2018

The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay Acquired on August 20, 2018

Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne Acquired on August 20, 2018

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (AmazonClassics Edition) Benjamin Franklin Acquired on July 27, 2018

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (AmazonClassics Edition) Mark Twain Acquired on October 11, 2017

The Scarlet Letter (AmazonClassics Edition) Nathaniel Hawthorne Acquired on October 11, 2017

Macbeth: Fully Dramatized Audio Edition William Shakespeare Acquired on October 11, 2017

The Fault in Our Stars John Green Acquired on October 11, 2017

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Acquired on October 11, 2017

The Odyssey Homer Acquired on October 11, 2017

Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Acquired on October 11, 2017

Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition) Bryan Stevenson Acquired on August 9, 2017