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 Hidden Treasure of Glaston
Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World
The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day
Morning Star of the Reformation
The River of Grace: The Story of John Calvin
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. :+)
Dutch Color (In seventeenth-century
2 comments:
Hi! I'm Lutheran and I just read that book to my little boy. He was such a brave man!
I dreamed about you last night, Kate. I dreamed we were doing Rosetta Stone conferences together. Now THAT would be fun. miss you!
ps... are you EVER going to update again???
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