Hi everyone!
I want to do a deep dive of the bible and am deciding between two: the New Oxford Annotated Bible and the HarperCollins Study Bible. I'm planning to go to a bookshop and have a look at them but I also wanted to hear your thoughts regarding:
- the study notes / commentary
- presentation / layout (eg would I have to flick back and forth a lot?)
- how easy / tedious it is to read (in terms of the language)
- the actual physical book (eg size, sturdiness, etc)
This was in 2015. I had to rest for a while because it was an intense high, an intense low.
I’m beginning again. It’s a very non-linear process. I’m finding that I will grab up what I know of certain scenes and let them unravel. And it’s fascinating. The story tells and re-tells itself to me in ways I didn’t even consider. Everything is becoming so much more three dimensional.
I’m going back and forth in reliving, rewriting these stories. I’m glad now in a way that I got rejected and dropped. The stories would never be what I feel they can be now. Before, I wasn’t on ADHD meds and wrote primarily as a means of escape during a tough time and a requirement of a Master’s degree thesis. Now on the meds I need, it feels like that scene on that Limitless movie, with the letters falling all around lol. I’m able to harness my focus and access everything in the little pocket of my brain where my writing skills live.
And it gives me hope, too…if where I was before was enough to end up getting the attention of those whose attention I ended up getting….and where I am now shows so much growth…perhaps this time, I’ll not only shoot, but score.
Either way, this is my present joy and I just wanted to share.
I have seen many old covers for sale on Amazon, but they are very expensive. Do they still print them or are they just very rare?
(United States)
I have every book except one of her “original” Tudor series in the Harper publications, before they were published again in the same cover designs by Touchstone.
However the Touchstone publications are just slightly different and I’ve been hunting for The Other Queen, in this cover design, by Harper, for the longest
https://imgur.com/a/lqebfs9
I know this is super specific and totally out there. My mom gifted me The Boleyn Inheritance and later The Other Boleyn Girl, which started my reading and love of historical fiction. I just would love for this specific set to be complete and actually match.
I have a lot of historical fiction and YA fantasy that I am willing to trade, if anyone is interested. Let me know what abouts you might be looking for and I can see what I have!
So, I recently treated myself to the hardcover, Alan Lee illustrated LOTR/Hobbit box set from HarperCollins, and am putting the Matching Silmarillion on my Christmas list. The other Tolkien work I really want a nice copy of next is Tree and Leaf. Has a HarperCollins edition been published that matches the set I already have, or is there a reasonable prospect of one being published in the future? Or will I have to resign myself to a copy of Tree and Leaf that sticks out like a sore thumb?
I've decided to start keeping an eye out for these, but when I search by isbn, none of the results have any info about what number printing the book is from or where it was made. Are there other clues I can look for? Do I just need to be patient? (Edit: a word)
