Love this!

Oh, I tell you, if I could live a dual life of wife/mom as well as something else, it would have been an archeologist. This new discovery is *so* up my alley! I am sure that the life of an archeologist is often very dull, but wow, can you imagine happening upon something magnificent? Can you imagine discovering another Tutankhamun? I can only imagine what that must have been like. Or the Rosetta Stone? Or some wonderful Greek or Roman or Biblical treasure? What that must be like!

OK, back to my own reality - life is good. We are getting over some very odd colds and that is always good. We had John's birthday on Sunday and he is Mr. Bionicle. I don't know if any of you have sons that love Bionicles as much as my son, but it is a really enjoyable thing for him and he enjoys the books too. I cannot say whether they are terribly interesting or valuable reading, but he is enjoying them. I consider them "fun" reading as opposed to "quality" reading, as I do require him to read what I consider quality literature and then rotate to his "fun" reading. Spiderman comics fall into the fun category too. LOL He has eclectic taste from biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Kit Carson to the Children's Illustrated Ivanhoe. I used to be a total purist with regards to classics like Ivanhoe, but that is one tough book and I would not ever require him to read that at this age yet I knew he would love the story done in a children's version. He *loved* it. He also read Moby Dick in the children's version too and that was quite a success. Never say never, right? :+)

Two friends recently asked me for book suggestions for the medieval time period and I came up with quite a list. I thought you might enjoy it too.

Monks and Mystics: Chronicles of the Medieval Church - We are reading the first in this series right now: [Peril and Peace: Chronicles of the Ancient Church – that begins with Paul and goes through Benedict (529 AD)] Powerful books!!

 

The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow

 

The Viking Quest Series

 

Augustine Came to Kent

 

The Hidden Treasure of Glaston

 

Beorn the Proud

 

Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World

 

Ink on His Fingers.

 

Marguerite Makes a Book

 

Caedmon’s Song

 

Leif the Lucky

 

The Making of a Knight

 

The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day

 

Morning Star of the Reformation

 

The River of Grace: The Story of John Calvin

 

Otto of the Silver Hand

 

Saint George and the Dragon

 

The Illuminated Manuscript

 

Book of Kells DVD (This is just a wishlist kind of thing as I don’t own it, but it looks so neat!)

 

The ones below are Renaissance, but I listed them for later. :+)

 

The Apprentice

 

Dutch Color (In seventeenth-century Holland, a young woman vows to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance following a voyage to Venice to obtain paint color recipes for the painters of Utrecht.)

 

I hope you find something you enjoy!