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The Little Bookroom: 06/01/2010 - 07/01/2010
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Saturday, June 26, 2010. I love the new Blogger templates! I was never very happy with the last template I had, so I was glad to see some new ones, and had a hard time choosing one. Finally decided to stick with pink. I've been reading a lot of short stories lately- not for any particular reason, just because I keep finding good collections. Here are a few reviews and recommendations. The New York Stories. Good Evening, Mrs. Craven. A Harvest of Stories. By Dorothy Canfield Fisher. In the prologue, the a...
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The Little Bookroom: 11/01/2011 - 12/01/2011
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Thursday, November 24, 2011. Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child. The book is written in a similar tone as C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters. Then I started to notice that he rarely mentioned girls or domestic activities. All of his examples of a good imaginative life were about boys doing things that might have come straight from The American Boy's Handy Book. The hundreds of women who were force-fed in English prisons simply because they showed up at a rally? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Little Bookroom: 05/01/2009 - 06/01/2009
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Friday, May 15, 2009. We are not unique. I have just discovered that my family's cult movie is also someone else's cult movie. This is very hard to believe. I've been reading a memoir (you will laugh when you learn that it's called Truck: A Love Story. Then she says she and her sisters and her mother can recite every line in What's Up, Doc? I had to check to make sure that I wasn't actually related to this woman! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Fashion in Shrouds. Boards of Red Tulips.
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The Little Bookroom: 02/01/2012 - 03/01/2012
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Saturday, February 11, 2012. I've been reading a recent edition of John Holt's book of homeschooling, Teach Your Own. Mostly because I think John Holt is brilliant. I don't, of course, need to be convinced that homeschooling is a good idea, but sometimes it is helpful to be reminded why I'm choosing to keep my children at home instead of sending them away and getting a little peace and quiet! Beyond that, there are a number of practices, by now very common in schools all over the country, which in and of...
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The Little Bookroom: 03/01/2011 - 04/01/2011
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Sunday, March 06, 2011. Well, I persevered through The Crowded Street. And in the end I suppose it was worthwhile. Perhaps I was in the wrong mood, or the comparison with Miss Buncle's Book. Was too stark, but I felt somewhat wearied by another story about a young woman whose family, situation, and disposition were all against her. Fortunately it ended well. Then I picked up The New House. But overall I liked it much better. It was shorter, for one thing ( The Crowded Street. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Sunday, March 06, 2011. Well, I persevered through The Crowded Street. And in the end I suppose it was worthwhile. Perhaps I was in the wrong mood, or the comparison with Miss Buncle's Book. Was too stark, but I felt somewhat wearied by another story about a young woman whose family, situation, and disposition were all against her. Fortunately it ended well. Then I picked up The New House. But overall I liked it much better. It was shorter, for one thing ( The Crowded Street. The Fashion in Shrouds.
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The Little Bookroom: 02/01/2010 - 03/01/2010
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Monday, February 15, 2010. I have discovered LibraryThing. I am now addicted to cataloguing my books, which may possibly make me the most boring person alive. Nevertheless, this should come as an aid to people who don't give us books as gifts because they don't know what we have! The picture books collection is almost complete, but the rest of it will take a while as I delve through box after box. I've also started a wishlist, which is on LibraryThing as well as on Amazon. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Saturday, February 11, 2012. I've been reading a recent edition of John Holt's book of homeschooling, Teach Your Own. Mostly because I think John Holt is brilliant. I don't, of course, need to be convinced that homeschooling is a good idea, but sometimes it is helpful to be reminded why I'm choosing to keep my children at home instead of sending them away and getting a little peace and quiet! Beyond that, there are a number of practices, by now very common in schools all over the country, which in and of...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012. A few months ago, my husband and I decided to embark upon a Jane Austen Retrospective, re-reading and discussing each of the novels together. So far we've read Sense and Sensibility. And of course I've intended to write down my thoughts about each one as we've finished our discussions! I will try to return to the first three, as we did have some very interesting thoughts and conversations about them, but for now I'll just ramble about Mansfield Park. The Fashion in Shrouds.
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