So I’ve started reading How to Read Slowly by James W. Sire in a effort to increase my understanding of the books I’m reading. One of the habits he encourages in the first chapter is re-reading:
Good readers re-read many things many times.
I find that comforting, because sometimes it takes me several re-reads to make sense of a passage! And it give me the impetus to re-read a book I’ve been wanting to for a while now: Josef Pieper’s Leisure the Basis of Culture. Actually, this time around I’m especially interested in the second essay in the book, The Philosophical Act, but I have been thinking about leisure, or “schole”, again as well, thanks to the new podcast. 🙂 Here is the first passage that jumped out at me, from the foreword by James V. Schall, S.J.
Reminds me of Psalm 100:3…
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
An interesting aside: I typed “wonder” in the search engine on Unsplash and that was one of the photos that came up. There’s just something about the Grand Canyon, I guess. 🙂
In other reading news, The Children of the New Forest is our new lunch time read-aloud. It will probably take us a while to get through it, but promises to be an interesting counterpart to the history that Miss A and Mr. E are currently studying. Some other books read this week:
- Hubby: The Chemical History of a Candle, an AO Year 8 book he’s been reading along with Miss A. He said he wished he’d read it in high school (he’s a chemist himself now). Here’s his Goodreads review: This book is great…the only reason I didn’t rate it five stars is that in the reading some of it felt scattered. However, I think there is reason for this…I think Faraday was so excited and fired up giving the lectures that he was always trying to hold himself back from disclosing his conclusions without going through the arguments.
I think he would have been great to see in person…now where did I put that time machine… - Miss A: Hogfather and Night Watch, both by Terry Pratchett
- Mr. D: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (audiobook) – I think this one’s tugging at his heartstrings.
- Mr. E: He finished Caddie Woodlawn today!
- Little L: The Big Picture Story Bible
- Little R: The Mixed-up Chameleon
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