This is an adjusted list of the classics that I want to read. This year I am doing the #Yearofreadingonesown challenge, which is a challenge to not buy any books this year but to spend it reading all the unread books on my various shelves at home. The exceptions to this were the Louisa May Alcott books I didn't own already because I also am doing the #LouisaMay2020 challenge which is to read one book by her a month. (April is Rose in Bloom and May is Hospital Sketches) Those I am trying to find for free on my Kindle. Or I may be able to get them out of the library via ebooks. I haven't quite figured out how to do ebooks with the library, so that may or may not happen. Anyway, I did a search through the house and here are the 20 books I came up with. A few of them are rereads and a couple are books I had planned to read anyway (or in truth, have started reading already).
Classics Spin #23
1) Odes - Horace
2) Democracy in America by Tocqueville (this one is long so I might just read excerpts)
3) The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (Already started reading)
4) Utopia by Thomas More (I know I own this but couldn't find my copy)
5) Out of Africa by Isaak Dinesen (reread)
6) Purgatorio by Dante
7) Mythology by Edith Hamilton
8) Short Stories of Flannery O'Conner
9) Short Stories of Pushkin
10) Favorite Tales of Sholom Eleichem (started reading)
11) Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
12) The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne
13) Bleak House by Dickens
14) The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (pretty sure I read this already but maybe not!)
15) Civilization by Kenneth Clark
16) Till We have Faces by C. S. Lewis (reread)
17) Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (already started reading)
18) The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (reread)
19) The Leopard by Lampedusa
20) King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz
Thursday, April 16, 2020
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Reading Catch Up!
I don't know why I suddenly stopped blogging. You would think with this quarantine thing, I'd have the time, but I tend to take what free time I do have (keep in mind I am quarantining with 6 other people!) to do my booktube channel or I take the time to . . . . READ!
My reading in March was influenced by several things. First, I am doing a 2020 challenge called Year of Reading One's Own which is a challenge to not buy books but to read those unread books gathering dust on your shelves! March was also the Middle Grade March book challenge, so all these books are Middle Grade level. Also Lent and St. Patrick's Day played a part in inspiring reading choices in March. Here's what I have been reading:
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare - a reread, still excellent! About a young man chaffing under the Roman occupation who encounters Jesus. Good Lenten read!
Black Potatoes; The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. This book has been sitting on my shelf for years. I did read parts of it when I first bought it, but not cover to cover. Excellent addressing of the topic; just the right tone and level of detail for middle grade students. I found the illustrations (from actual newspaper articles at the time) really interesting and compelling.
So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins. This is an unusual story in that it is a childhood memoir of the daughter of the occupying Japanese in Korea during World War II. When the Japanese control collapses in 1945, her family must flee for their lives. Harrowing and I think a bit adult for middle grade, but absolutely riveting! I bought this book years ago at a library sale and I don't think anyone had read it until now!
Homesick; My Own Story by Jean Fritz - This is another book that sat on our shelves and I don't think anyone read it, even though we loved Jean Fritz's history books. Well, it was excellent! Highly recommend! It tells the story of her childhood living in China during the year 1927 when they had to flee the Communists. Her father ran the YMCA in a city in China.
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott. The story of a girl named Rose who has been recently orphaned and goes to live with and get to know her extended family. Her new guardian is Uncle Alec, a ship's doctor, and she also gets to know her aunts and her seven lively boy cousins. Lovely, cozy read. Quintessential Alcott! This was both Middle Grade and part of my #LouisaMay2020 challenge.
For more book reviews go to Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks.
My reading in March was influenced by several things. First, I am doing a 2020 challenge called Year of Reading One's Own which is a challenge to not buy books but to read those unread books gathering dust on your shelves! March was also the Middle Grade March book challenge, so all these books are Middle Grade level. Also Lent and St. Patrick's Day played a part in inspiring reading choices in March. Here's what I have been reading:
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare - a reread, still excellent! About a young man chaffing under the Roman occupation who encounters Jesus. Good Lenten read!
Black Potatoes; The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. This book has been sitting on my shelf for years. I did read parts of it when I first bought it, but not cover to cover. Excellent addressing of the topic; just the right tone and level of detail for middle grade students. I found the illustrations (from actual newspaper articles at the time) really interesting and compelling.
So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins. This is an unusual story in that it is a childhood memoir of the daughter of the occupying Japanese in Korea during World War II. When the Japanese control collapses in 1945, her family must flee for their lives. Harrowing and I think a bit adult for middle grade, but absolutely riveting! I bought this book years ago at a library sale and I don't think anyone had read it until now!
Homesick; My Own Story by Jean Fritz - This is another book that sat on our shelves and I don't think anyone read it, even though we loved Jean Fritz's history books. Well, it was excellent! Highly recommend! It tells the story of her childhood living in China during the year 1927 when they had to flee the Communists. Her father ran the YMCA in a city in China.
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott. The story of a girl named Rose who has been recently orphaned and goes to live with and get to know her extended family. Her new guardian is Uncle Alec, a ship's doctor, and she also gets to know her aunts and her seven lively boy cousins. Lovely, cozy read. Quintessential Alcott! This was both Middle Grade and part of my #LouisaMay2020 challenge.
For more book reviews go to Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks.
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