Benjamin Franklin once quipped: "Reading feeds the brain; it is evident most minds are starving to death." If he is right, then my children, who usually have fairly ambitious reading lists for school, will soon have "obesity-of-the-brain" syndrome. I attempt to read any books on their lists with which I am unfamiliar. Here is what the 13-year-old will read this year. The ones in green are the only ones I have read in their entirety: it's gonna be a busy year for ME!!
Attributes of God
Bondage of the Will The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Courtship of Miles Standish The Scarlet Letter Billy Budd Walden Leaves of Grass Ethan Frome Death Comes for the Archbishop The Great Gatsby As I Lay Dying The Old Man & the Sea The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor To Kill A MockingbirdThe first two are for theology class (the school is providing 3 additional books...), while the rest are for Humanities where, as you can probably tell, they are focusing this year on American history.
"Books are the food of youth; a delight at home; no hindrance abroad; companions at night, in travel. Indeed, no wise man ought ever to be found apart their company." Cicero
3 comments:
Nice paragraphs in this post.
I am forever indebted to you, Mr. Bobber!
I really like Willa Cather's work, but I have had a hard time getting into Death Comes for the Archbishop. It looks like a great reading list, though. Have a good time keeping up (or ahead?) of the class.
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