Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Friday, April 12, 2019

Thoughts on “War and Peace”

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Husband has been giving me a hard time for many years,  because I told him once that I tried reading War and Peace by skipping the war ...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017

Laura Ingalls' 150th birthday

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I love Laura Ingalls' dates... I will always consider her a dear friend. From https://www.facebook.com/Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Book Club begins again

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Book Club started! A beautiful sunset in Downtown Brookings welcomed me as I drove in early to set up things. We had a lively discussion ab...
Monday, March 14, 2016

A piece by George Weigel

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For those who love Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, this piece by George Weigel is fascinating. After reading it I felt as if yes, I h...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Number Six's post on Crime & Punishment

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Hers is probably my favorite blog in the whole world! This is an outstanding post in so many ways. Earl Grey Soliloquy Thursday, December...
Friday, May 29, 2015

New Flannery O'Connor Stamp

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Wonderful news! From Catholic News Agency : By Mary Rezac Washington D.C., May 30, 2015 / 06:01 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- Award-winn...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Life with Number Six

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With her long-time friend Katie! Number Six and I spend our days together while Number Seven walks back and forth to the school acr...
Monday, March 09, 2015

Reading The Betrothed

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For Book Club we just finished reading the Italian Classic The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni. I had vaguely known of its existence, before...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Emma by McCall Smith: my review

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See it at Amazon here .
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Poetry

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Husband has been running a  High School Poetry course with Numbers Six and Seven and friends... last night we had a reduced number of stude...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Fixed!

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My computer is back and working wonderfully! For my first post I would like to announce that I just today finished the online class Laura...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Catholic Courses

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I have recommend both the Teaching Company and its superior competitor the Modern Scholar for great lectures on all short o subjects, and n...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Two Book groups!

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I have been meaning to report on how the book groups I just started. I just wrote this to The Well-Read Mom founder Marcie Stockman, whom I...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

A new and wonderful essay on Jane Austen

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Great news from Number Three's college website:  http://udallas.edu/news/2013/phd-graduate-katie-davis-wins-jane-austen-essay-contest.ht...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Great article

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Have you been appalled, like I have, at the local library, at what passes for children's or YA (young adult) literature lately? Excelle...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Exploring Catholic Literature

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This arrived yesterday and I knew very little about it. I can't even remember exactly how I came across it--the ways of the Internet are...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

A good book is hard to find

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Husband has been taking about this favorite book of his for years, and we have started listening to it together recently on Audible. The tri...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

On Husband and his love for Poetry

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With permission from publisher Margot Davidson, I am sharing my (very brief and imperfect) article in the current issue of the national Cat...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Article for Mater & Magistra

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I don't usually do this,  and truthfully I don't even know if I am supposed to do it, but here it is, an article I just wrote for t...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Gerard Manley Hopkins in Portuguese!

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I'm writing an article today for Mater & Magistra and I had to research some poetry... and I wondered if this poet has some of his ...
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