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 Mockingbird
The 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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