I did it! I read something for every category this year, so I’m eligible for three entries to the drawing over at Books and Chocolate! Thanks for hosting this, Karen! I also managed to actually read a few of the books listed in my original plan. 😉 Title links are to my Goodreads reviews. A… Continue Reading
I finished Charlotte Mason’s fourth volume, Ourselves, on Thursday. She wrote it for young people, but it really is a book that anyone from about the age of twelve and up can benefit from. I can see that reading it as a teenager might have helped me be more careful about the habits and thought… Continue Reading
After a Thanksgiving break week, we have three more weeks of Term 1 before we break for Christmas, so I’m trying to finalize Miss A’s Term 2 plans and order any books we need. In looking over AmblesideOnline’s recommendations for Year 11 yet again, I decided to check out Witness by Whittaker Chambers, and was… Continue Reading
Reading from Ourselves has been a bit sporadic lately, but I’m trying to buckle down and finish it by the end of the year. Then perhaps I can finally read Formation of Character in 2019. I appreciate how these words on helping others from Book II, Part I, Chapter XVI respect the personhood of both… Continue Reading
Miss A and I are both reading the first half of How to Read a Book this year. It’s a book that has intimidated me ever since borrowing it from the library but never finishing it about 15 years ago. I have waited to add it to her school schedule until now, even though AmblesideOnline schedules… Continue Reading
The following two quotes sit side-by-side in my commonplace book. I noticed them around the same time during my reading of The Living Page (where I re-read the Mason quote) and Never Give In (about Sir Winston Churchill), and they connected in my mind. I love how Churchill exemplified the ideas Charlotte Mason expressed. Our… Continue Reading
I love planning our Morning Time: brainstorming what to keep and what to change, matching our poetry to one child’s current history studies and our artist to another’s, finding the perfect book (or books) on our shelf. 🙂 Bible and Catechism: I think we’ll actually finish Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds this term! We will also start… Continue Reading
This passage from Canto II of Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves (Book I of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, updated and annotated by Roy Maynard) stood out to me, probably because I have such a hard time following its advice. 🙁 He oft finds medicine, who his grief imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing hearts,… Continue Reading
Charlotte Mason required students to narrate after only one reading in order to develop the habit of attention, but that did not mean she was against rereading books, as this quote from Book II of Ourselves makes clear: I have found several of C. S. Lewis’ books to be worthy of multiple readings – I… Continue Reading
One of my summer books this year is Poetic Knowledge by James S. Taylor, and it’s a tough one! I made myself out a schedule, and so far I’m on track, but I only tackle a few pages at a time and I know I’m not “getting” everything. But one thing that’s stood out to… Continue Reading