Anastasia Fitzgerald-Beaumont's Blog – June 2009 Archive (5)

Hitler’s Private Library by Timothy W Ryback



I had a quick trot through this book, which arrived in my college library last session. I already knew that Hitler was a reader, though of a very specific type. His favourite form of fiction was the western, particularly those written by Karl May, and the detective story, though he liked to keep these low-brow tastes a secret from the general public. A boilermaker unwise enough to tell his… Continue

The Magical Universe: Everyday Ritual and Magic in Pre-Modern Europe



By Stephen Wilson



Paperback: 592 pages



Publisher: Hambledon & London (Jul 2004)



ISBN-10: 1852854456



ISBN-13: 978-1852854454







I believe it could be shown that some belief in magic is almost universal.

George Orwell



I suppose most people here who have a genuine interest in magic and… Continue

Aleister Crowley: The Beast Demystified



By Roger Hutchinson



Paperback: 224 pages



Publisher: Mainstream Publishing; New edition (6 April 2006)



ISBN-10: 1845961323



ISBN-13: 978-1845961329



Sometimes biographies read a little like icebergs: they hide more than they reveal. So it is with Peter Hutchinson’s quick trot through the life of Aleister Crowley, the sometime ‘Beast’ and the… Continue

Paperback: 272 pages

Publisher: Vintage (27 April 2006)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0099502526

ISBN-13: 978-0099502524



I think I was, oh, about fourteen when I first saw Schindler’s List, a movie that made such an impact on me that I followed it up by reading as much Holocaust literature as I could find, including the novel upon which the movie is based. To date I’ve read- aside from Keneally-Tadeusz Borowski’s… Continue

My exams finished yesterday afternoon. It’s over, yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I was out that night, and again last night, with a big crowd of people, fellow students mostly, but also a couple of professors, including one who has made his intentions towards me all too plain! He can dream, yes, he can. I’m so high today, I thought I’d be hung over but I’m not. I can’t honestly remember how much I had to drink, but I moved from spritzers to shorts, tequila, the devil drink. I added a line or two for good… Continue