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Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Wide Reading for Quarantine, Installment Two

Installment One is here. I noticed that some of my recommendations started falling off of my Facebook page (or wall or whatever it’s called), so I decided to preserve them here sooner rather than later. Before I do that, though, I thought I’d review something I talked about in my newsletter a couple weeks ago: stability. There are a number of times Charlotte Mason implies that wide reading gives us stability. In In Memoriam, for example, she is quoted: The Continue Reading…
May 4, 2020
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Wide Reading for Quarantine (7 Book Recommendations)

On my personal Facebook page (not the Afterthoughts page, but rather the page where I’m just with people I know in real life), I started recommending books. It’s an old hobby I decided to ramp up after seeing friends ask each other what to read next. My goal was to use a different category every day of the week. It’s not that I would never repeat a category, but my goal was to never repeat a category within a single Continue Reading…
April 22, 2020
Books & Reading
The Official 2018 Afterthoughts Read Aloud List

It’s that time again! I love to read book lists and I love to share book lists, and I know you are just the same. We finished 22 titles this year — we’re in the middle of a few books that I’ll list at the end. Those will also appear on next year’s list. As I share these books, keep in mind that my four children range in age from 10 to 16. These are wonderful read aloud titles, but that Continue Reading…
January 1, 2019
Books & Reading, Mother's Education
Growing a Soul with Island of the World

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] almost called this a “review,” but it seems inappropriate to review a book like Island of the World. It’s be like reviewing a biography, something else that makes me uncomfortable. How could I review someone’s life? While technically fiction, Island of the World is most certainly the story of a life. I thought it’d take me many months to finish this 800-page brick of a book, but my recent illness has given me time for reading {and sleeping}, and also no energy Continue Reading…
February 2, 2016