Talking Leaves  by Joseph Bruchac - link to my post (library copy) The Foundations of Western Civilization by Thomas F. X. Noble (Great Co...

  Wisdom from the Lives and Letters of St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane Frances de Chantal  edited by Louise Perrotta - link to my post (p...

Books that Matter: The Federalist Papers by Joseph L. Hoffmann First Son used the Mater Amabilis beta government plans, which included lots ...

Henry IV Parts One and Two  by William Shakespeare - Kansas Dad helped choose these two plays for First Son's senior year of high school...

Classic Novels: Meeting the Challenge of Great Literature by Professor Arnold Weinstein (The Great Courses) In this course, Professor Weins...

Food: A Cultural Culinary History (The Great Courses) by Ken Albala Professor Albala attempts to cover all of human history through fo...

The Confessions  by Saint Augustine, translated by Maria Boulding, O.S.B. - link to my review (Kansas Dad's copy) Wild Coast: Travels...

The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (The Great Courses) by Patrick N. Allitt We've been immersed in Mater Amabilis™ for over t...

The Life and Writings of John Milton by Seth Lerer I selected this audiobook as a supplement to First Son's tenth grade English co...

The History of Ancient Egypt by Bob Brier This is a fantastic series of 48 lectures, each one around thirty minutes long. Professor Br...

The Odyssey  by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald As I mentioned in my post on The Iliad , First Son and I read this along with Eli...

The Iliad  translated by Robert Fagles The Mater Amabilis™ high school plans (currently available in beta version in the high school fac...

Lots of reading, not lots of time at the computer when I can write about what I've read. Here's a quick look at November and Decem...

How to Read and Understand Shakespeare , one of the Great Courses audiobooks, with Professor Marc C. Conner Over the past few years, I hav...

World Peacemakers: Mahatma Gandhi by Michael Nicholson - link to my post . (library copy) The Korean War (Snapshots in History) by Bri...

Heroes and Legends: The Most Influential Characters of Literature Professor Thomas A. Shippey from The Great Courses This is a serie...

Great Expectations  by Charles Dickens - I read this book many years ago, while in high school, and decided I didn't like Charles Dick...

History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration (Great Courses) by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius This is one of the Great Courses, a ...