1917: Red Banners, White Mantle by Warren H. Carroll - link to my post. (purchased used)
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski - Another book in the Witcher series, a fantasy novel of elves, magic, monsters, and the end of the world. Fun, easy read. (library copy)
Boys to Men: The Transforming Power of Virtue by Tim Gray and Curtis Martin - link to my post. (purchased used)
The Gospel of John (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture) by Francis Martin and William M. Wright IV - link to my post. (used in a parish adult education class)
Divini Redemptoris (On Atheistic Communism) by Pope Pius XI - link to my post. (available free online)
The Face in the Flames: A Story of Saint Bridget of Sweden by Brother Roberto - link to my post. (purchased new)
Introduction to Catholicism: A Complete Course, General Editor: Rev. James Socias, The Didache Series, first edition - link to my post. (purchased used; here's a link to the second edition)
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - This is the first in a trilogy in the "Grishaverse," in which some people have inherent abilities in the Small Sciences, like magicians. I'll write about the whole trilogy next month sometime. (Kansas Dad received this book as a gift.)
Dracula by Bram Stoker - Kansas Dad was reading this for one of his fantasy and theology classes. I remembered I had it on Audible and decided to listen as he read so we could talk about it together. I spent a good part of the book wanting to yell at the characters, "Don't you know what's going on here? His name is Dracula for goodness's sake!" But of course that didn't make any sense because this book is the only reason anyone knows the name Dracula. The Audible book was wonderfully done. The different voices made it very easy to recognize who was speaking. With all the different diaries and letters and telegrams it would be challenging otherwise. (purchased on Audible, probably on sale)
Quite Early One Morning by Dylan Thomas - link to my post. (library copy)
Books in Progress (and date started)
- Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol. 2 (sixth edition) (August 2014)
- A Century of Sonnets edited by Feldman and Robinson (May 2017)
- The Power of Silence by Robert Cardinal Sarah (December 2017)
- In the Steps of the Master by H.V. Morton (February 2018)
- History's Great Military Blunders and the Lessons they Teach from The Great Courses (February 2018, listening with the older two or three)
- Ember Rising by S.D. Smith (March 2018, listening with Kansas Dad and the kids)
- Know and Tell: The Art of Narration by Karen Glass (April 2018) - I've finished this but lent it out to first one and then another friend so I haven't written about it yet. To sum up: If you want to use narration in your homeschool, read this book.
- 1984 by George Orwell (April 2018, listening on Audbile)
- Nino by Valenti Angelo (April 2018)
- The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (April 2018, aloud to the children)
- The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (April 2018)
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