It was a very good reading year – 95 books finished! I could not reach that number without audiobooks as I am not a fast reader (although I am faster – when I focus – than I used to be). I don’t think I’ll try for 100 in 2024, especially since I’m tackling several pretty… Continue Reading
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Book Review: How to Read a Book
My history with Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book goes back about 19 years to when I was expecting my second child and reading The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer. She mentions Adler’s book (if I remember correctly) and I found an older edition, probably not the one co-authored by Van Doren, at… Continue Reading
Book Notes: Step by Step
I just finished The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor, reading along with a book discussion led by my friend Dawn and hosted on the Scholé Sisters discussion forum. I did question a few of Hugh’s ideas and found some places a bit tedious (but necessary information for the beginning students he was writing to),… Continue Reading
Book Notes: Resurrection and Remembrance
On Friday, I finished Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Pope Benedict XVI. Like his Infancy Narratives, which I read during Advent and Christmas, I found it very insightful, even if I didn’t always agree with him (not being Catholic). His knowledge of Scripture and the connections he… Continue Reading
Books Read in 2022
It has been a very good year of reading and as of yesterday, I have finished 80 books. Here is the list in the approximate order I read them with the star rating I gave them on Goodreads: The Reformation 500 Years Later by Benjamin Wiker (audiobook) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Devil’s Novice by Ellis Peters (audiobook)… Continue Reading
Book Review: Evangelical Is Not Enough
I picked up Evangelical Is Not Enough for the intriguing, if also somewhat off-putting, title and my interest in the subject – I have a category dedicated to books about the Church this year. So far, I have learned about the Reformation from a Catholic perspective, Eastern Orthodoxy from a Reformed perspective, and listened to… Continue Reading
Book Notes: The Faerie Queene
Thanks to David Timson’s excellent narration of the audiobook and Kelly Cumbee’s class at the House of Humane Letters, I finished Edmund Spenser’s long, beautiful, and sometimes confusing poem today. I still don’t pretend to understand everything or get all the allusions to myths and such, but it is not one to read or listen… Continue Reading
Book Notes: The Shores of the True Love
Tomorrow, I will finish reading Dante’s Divine Comedy along with 100daysofdante.com! I have found Paradise to be the most challenging part to comprehend, but the video lectures and the incentive to finish by Easter have helped me to keep going. 🙂 I haven’t saved many quotes from the Divine Comedy for my commonplace journal, but… Continue Reading
Book Notes: Decisions and Dialogue
“Comrades,” he said, “I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are… Continue Reading
Books and More Books
I have enjoyed seeing others’ reading plans and possibilities and listening to recent podcast episodes from The Literary Life and Close Reads where the hosts shared their favorite (and least favorite) books from the past year. So, I thought I would share my categories for the 2022 Scholé Sisters 5×5 challenge with the books I’m… Continue Reading