One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
School: I start my TA training Aug 12th. I am excited of course but also a little overwhelmed. I need a babysitter for the 12th – 21st and haven’t a clue what to do. My actual school schedule is coming together nicely though. Also, I saved books from an undergrad course that I will be [...]
Dorothy Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker is brilliant and, as far as I know, unprecedented. To look at and try to concieve of the character of God by examining the nature of the artist provides not only startling insight but great motivation to work harder and better. Sayers deftly handles such essentially complex ideas [...]
I haven’t finished a book in days!
I’ve been so busy with the new website and, well, life that I barely have time to read. I’m in the middle of three books right now: Father Joe by Tony Hendra, The Chronicle of the Cid, and Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph and Frances Geis. All [...]
I’ve got one hundred pages left in The Iliad and all of The Odyssey. I’ve really never understood those that find these works hard to follow. I mean yeah, they are long, and the structure is not straightforward, but still, just getting into the rhythm of the poetry doesn’t take too long and all the [...]
Walden is almost finished. I took a huge dose of Thoreau in one day and am not sure I’ll survive. Beans and rice are looking better and better. Seriously though, though he may be promoting a good life for a hermetic philosopher and while some of the concepts he preaches will bear out in a [...]
I had a very busy weekend (no blogging…) and here are the highlights.
Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose was excellent. Didn’t end how I had expected it to, but no matter, it was a very enjoyable book that rekindled my desire to study Latin. I now have access to a book entiled (something like) [...]
ARG! Only 100 pages read yesterday. Getting down to the wire makes every poor reading day mean that much more. I don’t have much time for recovery.
I’m in The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco and so far, so great. I hope the sheer pleasure of it keeps up. It was a best-seller back [...]
Christmas is right around the corner and even though I read Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching I’m going to write about the much more pressing matter of what goodies to bake. Normally I bake a lot of old favorites and a few new recipes each year. This year I’m sticking to the tried and true, [...]
I know, I slacked off on blogposts over the weekend. I didn’t slack off altogether but the blog definitely took a back seat.
I only read 3/4 of what I should have but hey, busy with kids, Christmas and church should count for something right?
I’ve promised this recipe to two friends so I better get it [...]
I haven’t finished it yet but still, trust me when I say: “go out and buy a copy of Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler. It is fabulous. Calvino is playful, complex and intriguing. In the pages of the novel, you meet yourself, a middle-aged Reader. A man, of course, though you [...]