The Korean War (Snapshots in History) by Brian Fitzgerald - link to my post. (library copy)
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (and the Grisha trilogy) - link to my post. (gift copy of Shadow and Bone, library copies of the second and third books)
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy - link to my post. (purchased used copy)
10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo - link to my post. (library copy)
The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski - This is the second book of the Witcher series and the third featuring him. It's politics and fantasy and ethics and mostly enjoyable, but contains an episode centered on the rape myth so, though I do intend to read the remaining books, I'm not going to recommend it. (library copy)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting - link to my post. (received from a member of PaperBackSwap.com)
1984 by George Orwell - I enjoyed revisiting this classic with the audiobook. It was more interesting for me after listening to the lecture on Winston in Heroes and Legends. I was able to place the story in context of post-World War II England much better than I had understood previously. (purchased on Audible)
Afghanistan (Global Hot Spots) by David Downing, September 11: Attack on America (Snapshots in History) by Andrew Langley, and The Arrival by Shaun Tan - link to my post. (all library copies)
Nino by Valenti Angelo - link to my post. (purchased used)
How Great Science Fiction Works by Gary K. Wolfe, one of The Great Courses - I thoroughly enjoyed these lectures on science fiction. It is a broad overview of the field. There's one lecture, for example, on science fiction and religion, but Kansas Dad co-teaches a science fiction and theology course that examines only Christianity in science fiction and lasts an entire semester. I recognized many of the authors, stories, and books mentioned, but also discovered many new ones. Hopefully I find some time to read some of them. (purchased on Audible with a credit)
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 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.
- The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (April 2018, aloud to the children)
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon by Frank Cottrell Boyce (May 2018, listening with Kansas Dad and the kids)
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (May 2018)
- Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe by Robert Matzen (May 2018)
- Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education by Stratford Caldecott (May 2018)
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