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I am reading...
I've enjoyed peeking into your "reading lists" and I don't feel so bad working on so many books at once. I rotate them until I finish.
I just finished Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. That was such an intense and thought provoking book for me that it took me two days of thought before I wanted to read another book.
I'm currently reading
-The Doctrine and Covenants
-Raising a Family Unto the Lord by Gene R. Cook and stopping to read each passage and highlight.
-The Five Love Languages of Children- excellent and needed for me right now
-Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin. I have an autistic child and a brother in my ward recommended her as an author as she is autistic!
-Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
-A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
As a family we are almost finished with Tom Sawyer. We're also reading The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.
My twelve year old is reading Journey to the center of the Earth and she reads Nancy Drew books constantly.
My ten year year old is reading "1000 Years over a Hot Stove" since she is as passionate about homemaking as her mother! LOL
I have such a long list of books I'm anxious to get started on so I'll be reading extra this week. :)
Shiloah Baker, Eternal Companion to Ben, mom of 7 in North Carolina
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Just Curious - What are you reading?
Currently, I am reading:
"Little Britches" (with my kids for a family book club we started with our homeschool co-op, we will be discussing the book as a group)
"A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion" (I am so close to finishing reading this, I'm taking notes and preparing a plan for implementing it this year)
"The Private Eye - Looking/Thinking by Analogy Guide" (this is a guide for implementing The Private Eye program, I will be teaching this class for our homeschool co-op, I highly recommend it)
"Life Learning" and "Home Education" magazines (I am indulging my short attention span with back issues I've borrowed from a friend, I am learning so much and find these articles to be confirming and inspiring, especially since the whole "unschooling" and "TJ EdRefers generally to the concepts presented in the book A Thomas Jefferson Education, written by Dr. Oliver DeMille. We also have an Introduction to Thomas Jefferson Education available elsewhere on this site." approach are brand new to me)
"Little Women" (just for ME!)
"Releasing the Powers of Junior Youth" - A Compilation of Baha'i Sacred Writings (I am tutoring this study circle for 15 participants and it is a yr. long "course" on engaging youth in programs that enhance their spiritual and intellectual capacities and prepares them for service in their community)
"Release the Sun" - A historical account of the beginning of the Baha'i Faith
After "Little Britches" we will get back to reading the "Little House on the Prairie" series. We will get back on track with "Farmer Boy". The kids and I have really enjoyed the first two books.
By the way, if you don't know about Paperback Swap, I highly recommend it for getting books at the cost of postage. I filled my bookshelf this summer with about 20 books from the Classics List in the back of "The Thomas Jefferson Education" book. All for about $2 per book. www.paperbackswap.com
Valarie in TX
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Just finished both Eragon and Eldest. It was a fun break!
Currently reading "1776" (loving it), "A Train to Potevka" (mostly true autobiography about a US Intelligence agent stranded and wanted in Cold War Russia), and "Understood Betsy" (to the kids). I've been out of town so much this summer my library books have dropped off.
My personal studies have been in diet and nutrition - mostly concerning diabetes, sugar, and exercise. My husband is facing the fact that at this point all the males in his family that are older than him have developed diabetes. They have bodies that enjoy packing on pounds, and many of the men have eaten fairly high-sugar diets all their lives and gotten little regular exercise.
So we are researching more food changes that we can make and he is increasing his exercise in order to stay fit. Hopefully we can make changes that will benefit our children, also, since they carry his genes.
(Does anyone have any good reads they can recommend? Or changes that we can make? I am curious about stevia - I'm not big on artifical sweeteners)
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For the health issues, I recommend that you read "Releasing Fat" by Dr. Ray Strand. It is an excellent book, and has become one of my health classics. "The Vegetarian Mother's Cookbook" by Cathe Olson is a really good book, too. Health and nutrition have been a passion of mine for the past several years, and if you'd like you can email me directly, and I'll give you lots of information.
kelleybirrelli@yahoo.com
Also, how do you find the Great Books free online? I noticed HFWM mentioned them, and I'm wondering how to get to them.
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http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
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Thank you.
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Sheesh. I've been reading, but am not getting as much time as I thought I would with a nursing baby, lol. Just off the top of my head...
Healthy Living from the Inside Out
The Mood Cure
Gluten Intolerance
Nourishing Traditions
The Abolition of Man
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Side_Tracked HOme Executives
Usually, I read one book before starting another, but I've been reading all these together. It's taken me a month, but I'm thru all but The Abolition of Man. Health has always been near and dear to my heart. I've been confused lately as we've always had what I considered an excellent diet (way better than the SAD), but we are facing some challenges, regardless. Genetics definately play a part...
Stevia is great! Artificial sweeteners are worse than sugar in many ways and sugar is bad enough in it's own right! My daughter is limited to honey, agave nectar, and stevia. (We recently ruled out maple syrup). SO that is what we use.
As a family, we are in the Narnia Chronicles--currently The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, as well as numerous short stories and picture books, and of course, our core book.
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We've moved on to new books. I am reading "Walden" by Thoreau. I am reading the "Betsy-Tacy" books to the girls and they LOVE them.
KELLY
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I have done a bunch of reading this summer, basically reading everything I can get my hands on.
Right now I am reading:
"1776" by David McCullough
"Les Miserables"
"Screwtape Letters"
"Declaration of Independence"
"Book of Mormon"
"The Law" by Frederic Bastiat
just finished "Dumbing Us Down" by John Taylor Gatto and
"The Gift of Asher Lev" by Chaim Potok (I love this author, and plan to read everything he has written)
With my kids (7,5,2 3/4), I am reading:
The Illustrated Stories of the Bible
book one in the "Felicity" books of the American Girl Series
The Stories of Beatrix Potter
various Dr. Seuss books and other storybooks
I have a huge pile of books that I can't wait to get to, as well.
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I've been reading a lot of excerpts from the Great Books set, available free online. But the past two weeks I took a break; too many new thoughts to immediately process while still carrying on home life, homeschool, and church responsibilities. I plan to get back into reading the Great Books soon, as part of the Great Conversation Yahoo group.
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I'm almost done with Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline. Now comes the hard part, remembering to apply it.
I'm also almost done with Northanger Abbey, which I'm listening to on tape. Never read it before. It's funny!
In the middle of:
The Taming of the Shrew
Multiple Intelligences
Raising Up a Family Unto the Lord
Old Testament and Book of Mormon
The last general conference Ensign
Complete Works of Emily Dickinson
Wow, I'd better get reading. I'm not usually in the middle of so many things at once.
We're between books with our family read-alouds and I haven't decided what we'll read next. But my 10-year-old daughter just discovered a children's edition of Tennyson's poems and loved them, and just finished The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle. My 7-year-old is working her way through the fifth Boxcar Children mystery.
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I am reading:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey (started this last fall - trying to actually work through it - not just read it)
Just recently began Les Miserables (dh started it and I want to be able to discuss it with him - but he is reading it faster than me!)
Finshed (finally) Merchant of Venice. Now I want to read some more lighter Shakespeare. I went to a children's production that combined several of his plays into one - including The Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream and a combo of MacBeth and Henry the ?th. I think I will pick them up to see if I can pick out the scenes they did.
Finished Alas, Babylon with my kids recently (my second reading)
With my kids we are reading:
Some children's versions of A Pilgrim's Progress (The Evergreen Wood by Allan and Linda Perry & Dangerous Journey by Eerdman's Publishing Company). Now my 13yo says he wants to read the real thing (which we also have).
We have started (by their choice) Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde. They haven't asked for it very often but they haven't started turning it down when I suggest we read from it, either. I want to read the next book in the Little Britches series but haven't gotten them interested. Perhaps I will just pick it up myself, anyways! I also want to read the Little House series - never have. But so far my two boyas are not too interested. maybe if I get some old videos of the TV series to whet their appetites?
We also "read" a lot of books on tape. Recently we "read" Caddie Woodlawn, The River (by Gary Paulson of Hatchet - it is a sequel), and are now beginning the Pushcart War.
Jody
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We have listened to several Mrs. Pollifax books. I read one aloud and then when we went to the library, they requested audiobooks of them. For some reason no one reads them silently...
What a great Question!
What am I reading or about to read? What a great question.
I just finished:
Emotional Purity (currently the epiphnal leader)
Memoirs of a Geshia (NOT reccomended)
Tasha Tudor
Rastophe Catasrope (eh? not worth reading)
Half way through:
Business of the Heart
Atlas Shrugged
Good to Great
Leadership and Self Deception
About to start for my Art of Womanhood group:
Sense and Sensibility
Mary, Martha and Me
The reading life is the good life if you ask me.
Carrie
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Just out of curiosity, have you read _Shogun_? I found it enlightening, disgusting, and odd... maybe because I'm not Japanese nor a Renaissance European. Is _Memoirs of a Geisha_ not recommended because of sex? Violence? Is it rated R?
Geisha Re: What a great Question!
I haven't read Shogun. Bah! another book to add to my never ending list.
Why don't I like Memoirs of a Geisha? When the movie first came out (haven't and now even more don't plan to see it) I heard there was sexual and other inappropriate situations so I didn't go see it or read the book at that time. But I was at Barnes and Noble and on the bargain table was a book called Geisha, a Life. It was an autobiography written by the most famous geisha of her time, 1960's and 70's. Firmly believing the adage, "would you rather read a text book with excerpts from books written about Lincoln, read a book written about Lincoln or read actually what Lincoln wrote", I thought I would rather read a book by an actual Geisha than a fictional story written by a western man. I read the book loved it. There were sexual situations in there but it was very different. The woman seemed to smooth over the areas of her life. Not out of a sense of western Christian piety but because of her actually sort of, I guess eastern, detached view of it all. Where as in Memoirs of a Geisha, the westernized fictional version, those very parts were highlighted and made more sensational. They were played up, I felt, for the American appetite for sex. Not only were the same situations played up but there were added aspects, rituals actually, that were presented in not the same detached analytical matter-of-fact as in Geisha a Life.
Geisha a Life was a factual open telling of a person’s life and culture. Memoirs was a sensationalized telling of the more sexual aspects, the cruelty and drunkenness.
Aside from the reason I just gave a dissertation on, I also compare the fact that I came away from Geisha a Life inspired, intrigued, and most importantly, with principles. Whereas with Memoirs of a Geisha, I felt dirty and slightly disgusted. I am sitting here analyzing to see if I learned anything, if it added anything of value. I can honestly say it didn't.
The interesting part is that the same geisha who wrote Geisha a Life was the main consultant for Memoirs of a Geisha.
I will not see the movie, though I was becoming more open to the idea before I read the book. There is nothing really to film in the book except the sex, drunkenness and cruelty of the Geisha world. As apposed to if Geisha a Life was filmed it would be about the beauty of the music, the grace of the dance, and the majesty of the traditions. Because that is what that book is about.
End Dissertation
Carrie
Hmmm
I did finally read _Memoirs of a Geisha_. It was enlightening and cruel and quite engaging... but didn't quite ring true to me. It's definitely fiction and to some extent it sounds like a man's idea of what a woman would think... but I can't separate the elements from each other: it's a tale of a totally unique culture, written by someone who has never been in it, about a woman's life but written by a man, telling a straightforward account of events that tie together neatly in a way that real life almost never does.
Part of the reason I read it was because I reread _Shogun_. _Shogun_ suffers a bit, I'm afraid, from being told by a Westerner some 350 years after the fact, in a totally different culture. But I found both _Shogun_ and _Memoirs of a Geisha_ taught me more than I knew before. I would not watch movies of either of them, because the thoughts and feelings, the motivations, the political and interpersonal relationships cannot be told with justice in a visual format. You cannot get the background adequately in the few seconds movies allow, and without that background both tales dissolve into sex and violence.
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I just have to jump in here and tell you that I am having a great time this spring and summer with my "Austen Fest"!! I have decided to read all of Jane Austen's novels this summer. I have already finished "Pride and Prejudice" and "Emma", and am now working on "Northanger Abbey" (which I have not read before), then I'll continue with "Sense and Sensibility", "Mansfield Park" and finish with "Persuasion" (my favorite). I also found "Jane Austen: A Companion" and have found it fascinating! It really has opened my eyes to life during Austen's time. After that I plan to buckle down and do some academic reading, but for now I'm having fun!!!
Lynda
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I'm currently reading "The Real Thomas Jefferson" and loving it.
Recent reads include:
-John Locke on religion
-James and the Giant Peach (with kids)
-Cheaper by the Dozen
-Raising Cain (not recommended)
-New Testament
-Old Testament
Raising Cain
Hi,
I am fairly new to this group and I was scrolling through what everyone was reading and came across your post. You put (not recommended) next to Raising Cain. I read that book about 5 yrs. ago and I remembered liking it, but don't remember too many details. I was just wondering what your thoughts were about it. I'd love to hear.
Thanks,
Valarie in TX
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I got bogged down reading the Old Testament, so I'm reading four pages a day (currently in 2 Chronicles) and then reading in the LDS Bible Dictionary. Then, too, I'm reading _Misquoting Jesus_, a book by a cynical Biblical scholar who discounts his own teenage conversion because of disillusionment over the supposed infallibility of Biblical text. Religiously, I have an answer to his cynicism, but he's convinced himself it couldn't possibly be real and so he would discount whatever he experiences. He reminds me of Uncle Andrew in _The Magician's Nephew_, who would hear growls no matter what Aslan did.
I'm also singing a lot of nursery rhymes to my 19mo. She loves a short board book with several songs like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". I'm the Primary chorister and so on Sundays I get to go into the nursery where she is to lead a few minutes of singing. The one other nursery child's mother says he won't listen to singing but will just play; the truth is she's always working - at home or at work - and so I suspect she's never sung to him at all. Last Sunday he stood face to face with me as I sat on the floor and sang.
I've read that nursery rhymes are an excellent way to learn language. My 19mo sings indistinctly but you can tell she has the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". I also think nursery rhymes are an aid to parents and caregivers (siblings) so that when the dear baby is driving us insane we can care for her without hurting her by singing instead!
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I had to laugh when I read your email...I am in the Primary Presidency in my ward. I also serve in nursery the third hour because it is just my son, and the Bishop's daughter (and the Bishop's wife serves in RS). I'm relieved to hear that there's another super small nursery out there!
I used to sing nursery rhymes all the time to my oldest. The time factor caused me to sing less to subsequent children (and for some reason I can't remember all of the ones I once knew). My little boy loves to sing. I find it a great *distractor* when he wants to do something he shouldn't.
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I sing a lot during diaper changes, which are frequent because we are using cloth diapers. I used to joke that my ds (now 11yo) had a bladder the size of a teaspoon, because he peed so often and got into much more trouble when he was wet. It's almost a hard and fast rule, that when a small child is defiant in my house, it's because he or she is wet, hungry, or tired.
I'm thankful to have a nursery. Our branch is so small that we meet for only two hours on Sundays, for lack of teachers. Before the nursery, these two toddlers went into the adult womens' class, where all the grandmas adored them. But most of the grandmas are frail and need quiet to hear the lesson!
I've finished the history books in the OT; now into Isaiah. I skipped over Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecc. and Song of Solomon. I just couldn't get up any enthusiasm for reading them again. It hasn't been that long since I last plodded through Job and Psalms. Proverbs is good, but Ecclesiastes documents depression, which I don't need when recovering from short-term depression myself. Song of Solomon isn't very inspirational to me unless my dh is present.
So Isaiah, with the Bible Dictionary, all the footnotes, and the Book of Mormon for reference. It's fun to color all the explanatory notes bright colors. One time I went partway through Isaiah, with an Institute manual helping, and colored every few verses a different color by subject. That was fun and helped me remember my study later.
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Right now I'm working on getting myself into a serious scholar phase. In the last two weeks I've read:
"Cure for the Common Life: Finding Your Sweet Spot" by Max Lucado
"Education of the Wandering Man" by Louis L'Amour
"Last of the Breed" by Louis L'Armour
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Bonds That Make us Free" by Warner
"Candide" by Voltaire
"If You Were a Pizza You'd Be a Supreme" by Jack Weyland
"Inteligro Math" by Earl
"Merchant of Venice" by Shakespeare
Today I'm reading: "Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis (and the Book of Mormon
)
With my 4 Core children I'm reading "Anne of Green Gables" and "Little House in the Big Woods"
I'm fortunate to meet with two other TJED mom's early every Friday morning to push us in our reading and encourage us to right papers. Otherwise, there's no way I'd be this motivated.
Thanks for all the good book suggestions.
Jack Weyland
I read several of his books in the past. I finally ordered my own copy of _A New Dawn_, which was life-changing for me (along with other factors around the same time in my teenage life). I learned that I don't have to be who my peers think I should be or even who my family has me pegged as. I can become a better person with effort and God's help.
Come to think of it, I need to reread that book. I'm embarking on founding a new homeschooling group in my town. It's a challenge and a blessing, and I understand much better now why the previous group wilted when the leaders left. If we're not willing to put in the work to keep an organization going, it will fail. Groups and communities don't thrive without effort and commitment.
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I really enjoyed and was impressed by _Education of a Wandering Man_. Louis Lamour could have been an unlettered hand laborer all his life, but he had a vision of something different for himself. I also noted that he trained himself to write by rewriting, from memory, some classic work. Have any of you ever done this? What did you use as a model? How did it help?
I have thought about rewriting a classic short story from memory, but it sounds too much like conveyor belt work--I'm still in LOL, I guess, trying to overcome a hatred of evaluating my work. I had a ps high school teacher who told the class that he never graded my papers anymore, because I would argue with him over the commas. The truth is, he was a lazy teacher, not a writing mentor. I'm still hurting from his carelessness, particularly because when I tried to get into a creative writing course in college, I was told I couldn't write coherently. On top of this, my hs teacher now writes a regular column for his hometown newspaper!
I find I'm still waiting for an expert to tell me my writing is good. How do you overcome this?
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Just finished Uncle Tom's Cabin.
I'm reviewing Easy to Love Difficult to Discipline after realizing (once again!) that my kids really do follow my poor example so I need to work on setting a better one.
We are reading The Fields of Home by Ralph Moody outloud. I just love these books so much!! I keep reading ahead!
I just applied to GWC Master's of Education, so I'm assuming if I get in (distance ed.) I will be reading a lot this fall.
My husband and I have been reading Dave Ramsey finance books (he's mostly been sharing ideas he gleams, and I read bits and pieces).
Erin
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For myself:
Anne of Green Gables
The Chosen (just finished!)
The Unschooled Mind
The Closing of the American Mind
Just ordered Rachel DeMille's TJEd in Our Home - so will start that this week along with the Core and Love of Learning article
The Work and the Glory #8
The Book of Mormon
The kiddos:
Treasure Island
Swiss Family Robinson
Aesop's Fables
the Arthur series (I have them memorized!)
Ooka the Wise - Tales from Old Japan (one of my most favorite)
various fables and myths from around the world
The New Testament
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You have _Ooka the Wise_! I loved that book as a child. As I remember it, it was an old Scholastic book, probably from a school book club. I remembered it recently and wanted to buy a copy, but couldn't remember the name. Thank you for mentioning it!
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For me:
Jane Eyre
The Fourth Turning
Money, It's Not Just For Rich People
Setting the World Ablaze - Washington, Jefferson, Adams and the American Revolution (very interesting so far)
Old Testament
I am looking for a book on the letters of Abigail Adams to her son John Quincy Adams - any suggestions?
The kids:
Book of Mormon
Swiss Family Robinson
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
(The girls want me to pick up the Little House series again)
There really aren't enough hours in the day!
Corrie
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My current readings:
-Walden
-The Roots of American Order
-The Book of Mormon
-The book of Exodus
With the children:
-Little Britches
-The Merchant of Venice
-The Book of Mormon
Rachel
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Lately, I have been off on several tangents...we are getting ready to do something with our immediate acre or so around the house, so have been studying stuff like:
Square Foot Gardening
Gaia's Garden--the best book on permaculture, plant communities, going beyond companion planting...a classic for me!
Landscaping from Scratch--and that's all we have--scratch!=)
Money...it's Not Just For Rich People
The Fourth Turning
Fair Blows the Wind-LL'Amour (besides the Sacketts, and Lonesome Gods, this is my fave--I like the Elizabethan Age settings)
Book of Mormon
and S#3 reading packet--I really enjoyed "What is Seen and What is Not Seen"
Wow! I didn't realize I had gotten so much reading in this month. May is pretty hectic this year...or should I say, "was"? I am wanting a novel to read, like a few of you, just to ENJOY. Nicole
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I quit most reading for a while. My dd is 19 months old. She demands too much of my attention. I get very frustrated when trying to read while constantly vigilantly supervising her.
Plus we just finished the first ever standardized test in our family. It was stressful and time-consuming. A big part of the stress was having other children care for the toddler so I could do the testing uninterrupted with one child at a time. My dh has been indispensable.
I've been barely keeping up with reading the discussions on the MOO list.
I find my life goes in seasons, which have some relationship to seasons of the year. In fall and winter, and in pregnancy and nursing a new baby, I read non-stop. In spring and summer, and when the baby is a year old and older, I strive to reorganize the house and catch up on school projects. We do more seatwork in some seasons and then my brain gets full of ideas and shifts gears; then I must take action, do something, not sit and read.
I'm gardening, doing church activities, organizing a new homeschool group, rearranging my home, closing out the school year and preparing for next school year.
We did read _Matilda_ by Raold Dahl. It's not a classic, though entertaining enough that my children want to hear it again. We had good discussions about what the main character should have done. I notice that, as in _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_, the main character is a much-put-upon child, and the villains are adults. In _Charlie_ the villainous adults are the parents of the monstrous children--definitely dysfunctional, enabling relationships. In _Matilda_, the main character is in a dysfunctional family and at the end, escapes it almost painlessly. It seems a bit unreal.
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I have always been really interested in the Declaration of Independence. I have found a mentor that doesn't really know he is, and he gave me 6 assignments. The first one is to study the Magna Carta. I have been studying that for the last few days. It is so interesting. I had no idea even what it was or who or why and wow now I know. What a great feeling. Now I am writing a paper and I will hand it in to my not knowing mentor. We shall see if I get an A or a DA. I am excited.
Diana
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I have been working my way through some of the articles I purchased at the convention.
The new TJEd book.
Square Foot Gardening. (Using it for the great math concepts that have to be "used" when laying it all out.)
Attempting more of "The Merchant of Venice"
I haven't been able to get as much reading time as I'd like the last week or so. Thinking about getting the garden in and managing the new chicks and baby turkeys AND the 16 kittens. Most of the kittens are headed to a friends mouse infested barn this next week.
My dear grandfather's sudden passing has also put me into a bit of a tailspin but I'm beginning to pull out of it.
Dd is reading like crazy and is so excited by what she's reading.
I love that!
Cindy
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Problem of Pain-still trying to finish this CS Lewis book. It is great.
Hebrew-I'm slowly going through the Hebrew class books I bought at the conference.
I'm reading The Book of Mormon Sleuth books with my oldest dd
Char4lotte's web with the younger kids as a read aloud
I need to start another novel..
britt
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Also if you need suggestions on Hebrew Courses I can tell you what we use here at GWC.
Carrie
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I know it is a lot to ask, but you should look into taking th Hebrew language block classes at GWC. I have take 3 years, 6 semesters or 6 weeks of this and it has been invaluable. Having a mentor, mine has been Rachel De Mille, really helped keep me motivated. It is 6 or 7 days in either December or April.
It has been so worth it. Plus you get the impromptu lectures on Jewish Mysticism and and Jewish Thought by Dr. and Rachel De Mille.
Carrie
GWC Senior