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On My Nightstand
The Odyssey of Homer – with Providence Prep Humanities I class – such fun! Bulfinch’s Mythology – with my boys at home Our Mutual Friend – current Dickens audio selection (I’m loving the Audible app...
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In My Book Basket
For the Roman Roads Reading Challenge, my teen boys and I are reading the Robert Fitzgerald translation of Vergil’s Aeneid. The boys follow along in this paperback version, but I am reading from an...
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Behind A Frowning Providence | From My Commonplace
There are seasons in the lives of all when it is not easy, no not even for Christians, to believe that God is faithful. Our faith is sorely tried, our eyes bedimmed with tears, and we can no longer...
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D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths – Free Download!
. . . with a subscription to the Penguin Random House Audio newsletter. Details here. We have worn out two copies of this book over the years. It is a treasured family favorite. The pictures are...
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Dickens – Vulgar or Divine? | From My Commonplace
I am currently reading and relishing Chesterton’s enchanting biography of Dickens. Inked passages seriously threaten to outnumber those that escape my pen. Here’s one of the former from the first...
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Q on The Cultivation of Learning | From My Commonplace
The Art of Reading is a collection of lectures given by the great man in 1916 at Cambridge. (Book Tea friends, take note: Helene Hanff would have read these! Q’s Legacy) It’s been on my shelf for some...
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Now Therefore Go | From My Commonplace
Some time and some ink spent in my commonplace last week, following another thread in the Great Conversation. First from Perelandra, our current family read-aloud: What was the sense of so arranging...
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Books? Ebooks? Both?
Michael Hyatt says he is switching back to books: My goal for 2015 was to read twenty-six books. I ended up only finishing twelve. Worse, I actually bought 106 new books. I realize I can’t blame my...
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The Mother of Washington – A Book Review
There is a remarkable strip of land down on the ocean shore of Virginia that for three hundred years has borne the name of the Northern Neck. It is the first of three peninsulas, counting downward,...
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