Will you be reading with, or without conversation? We’ll be taking notes and, definitely, reading with conversation!
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Parents, teens, friends of the community: ask interesting questions, have interesting conversations!
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Seven tips that will make you a better reader.
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In An Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis introduces the idea that, rather than sort through the opinions of literary critics for best books, we may consider what books the best readers choose. He goes on to develop a clear comparison between best and worst readers that is a telling criticism of the read-and-answer-questions approach to literature of many educators. Flannery O’Connor would be pleased.
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If you had told me I’d ever be reading books about math in my leisure time, I’d have scoffed. No way is Word Girl ever going to get a grip on math! But, I finally realized math actually is the language God seems to speak when he’s creating wonders of nature and laws of physics and music of the planets instead of sitting ‘round heaven’s bonfire telling stories.
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We couldn’t put it down!
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This story’s complex themes are resolved with an honesty and transcendent beauty that is profoundly satisfying. I recommend this book very highly, especially for family read-alouds.
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The monster’s failure to be perfectly humanized by his amazing self-education, time spent in nature, and appreciation of beauty and human goodness may be the most human thing about him. If ever a ‘Noble Savage’ (the Romantic conception of a purely natural man) was shown to have an irreparable wound, and a bent toward evil despite his initial ‘innocence,’ and his humanistic education, it is this creature.
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The ‘danger’ of life in a learning community is that your reading list is ever expanding further than your expected lifetime! That’s also the delight, so here are some of our trustee, faculty, and friends’ reading lists for the coming year to add to your own.
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