The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
English Fairy Tales Page: 428 As I mentioned yesterday these were kind of repetitive. I’m not sure that any collection of fairly tales could avoid it and it probably wouldn’t be a problem if you were reading these individually as bedtime stories or that sort of thing. I enjoyed a lot of them but not [...]
Don Quixote of the Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Page: 247Â Finished This was Cervantes for kids but it was still pretty depressing. I don’t imagine a young child would pick up on the appalling sadness of it but I don’t think it would have been my favorite book if I’d read it as a [...]
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Page: 396 Finished I hadn’t read this book for a very long time and was pleasantly refreshed by it today. I also realized for the first time that I believe Anne is the best book to movie adaptation ever. It’s been a long while since I’ve seen the [...]
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children Page: 379 Brideshead Revisited Page: 315 I must confess, I’m a bit shocked. It is mis-titled and mis-intended. A poem about wanting to crawl back into the womb? For children? A line in a poem that says we might as well suck at a dug? For kids? Really? [...]
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children Page: 175 I never read much poetry either growing up or in school and for awhile I imagined that I didn’t like poetry. I think starting back at the basics (with children’s poetry) is a good strategy for those of you in my boat. Strongly cadenced, pleasantly rhyming [...]
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen Page: 304 I squeaked out a decent number of pages today all 214 of them read after 6pm. It was an insane day. It started out pleasantly with both boys sleeping in until 9am. I got up at 8:45 and slipped in a shower before either of them woke [...]
Fairy Tales by Hans Christen Anderson Page: 90 Blech. Only 90 pages today. I suppose I could have read more but between helping Jared get more bricks from the house they are moving, napping and just enjoying the day off, I didn’t get around to it. We spent a lot of our time talking about [...]
Selected Essays Albert Camus Page: 656 Finished Just So Stories by Kipling Page: 218 Finished Ulysses Page: 60 I’m glad I’m done with Camus. Especially the essay on the absurd. I caught myself using absurd rather too frequently a few months ago but now I think I can claim that it’s completely worn out for [...]
Peter Pan Page: 240 Essays George Orwell Page: 1265 Today was an exceptionally good day. Both boys slept until 9am (well, Luc got up at 6 but then went back to sleep until 9), then I headed down to Veritas to join Jared and Marybeth stopped by with Cole to visit for awhile, and then [...]
The BFG Page: 243 Essays George Orwell Page: 766 I LOVE DAYS OFF! As previously mentioned, yesterday was our first day off since Christmas. Not just our first day off together but really our first day off. I’ve kinda had a couple days (last week when I tried to get lots of reading done, and [...]